Geophysics, Realism, and Industry
How Commercial Interests Shaped Geophysical Conceptions, 1900-1960
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 17 December 2015
- ISBN 9780198755159
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages358 pages
- Size 251x181x24 mm
- Weight 750 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Geophysics, Realism, and Industry is the first book to simultaneously study the emergence of realist attitudes towards the entities (layers) of the ionosphere and the earth's crust. It proposes a new kind of realism: a realism of social and cultural origins, an entity realism responding to specific commercial and engineering interests.
MoreLong description:
Did industry and commerce affect the concepts, values and epistemic foundations of different sciences? If so, how and to what extent? This book suggests that the most significant influence of industry on science in the two case studies treated here had to do with the issue of realism. Using wave propagation as the common thread, this is the first book to simultaneously analyse the emergence of realist attitudes towards the entities of the ionosphere and of the earth's crust. However, what led physicists and engineers to adopt realist attitudes? This book suggests that a new kind of realism --a realism of social and cultural origins- is the answer: a preliminary, entity realism responding to specific commercial and engineering interests, and a realism that was neither strictly instrumental nor exclusively operational. The book has two parts: while Part I focuses on the study of the ionosphere and how the British radio industry affected ionospheric physics, Part II focuses on the study of the Earth's crust and how the American oil industry affected crustal seismology.
To the best of my knowledge, this book is the first historical study of its genre. It ought to be part of the education of any geophysicist, academic, or industrial. Students and professionals are bound to gain invaluable insights from the study of this work.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part I: Ionospheric physics and the British radio industry
The realist interpretation of atmosphere
Epitome of the realist interpretation: The parabolic model
Part II: Crustal seismology and the American oil industry
The alteration of an epistemic paradigm by a commercial environment
From simplicity to realism: Post-war explosion seismology
