Instrument and Reality: The Case of Terrestrial Magnetism and the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis)

Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 38:29-51 (1995)
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In recent years there has been an increasing focus on the role of instruments in the study of nature, both by historians and by philosophers of science, and even by a few art historians who are interested by the images produced by these devices.

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