The death of the sensuous chemist: The ‘new’ chemistry and the transformation of sensuous technology

Roberts, Lissa L.

doi:10.1016/0039-3681(95)00013-5

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“…Times had changed, however, and nineteenth-century scientists used their senses as tools for empirical analysis. Smell and taste, along with sight and touch, were enlisted to help identify and classify the materials under study (see Roberts 2005). There was, nonetheless, a quasi-magical, if not mystical, element to mummy unwrappings, for, even aside from hidden amulets and scrolls, anatomists never knew what curious and even beautiful things they might find inside.…”

Section: Unwrapping the Sensesmentioning

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Touching the Deep Past

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2014

The Senses and Society

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Section: Unwrapping the Sensesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Touching the Deep Past

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2014

The Senses and Society

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“…STS scholars' work on the laboratory practices of scientists unveiled much more than the visual aspects of knowledge making, however. As historian of science Lissa Roberts (1995) suggested, it was only in their published writings that eighteenth-century chemists sidelined touch, hearing, smell, and taste. While carrying out their experimental work, they still enlisted their senses to interpret what had happened, carefully attuning their bodies to their instruments.…”

Section: Sensory Practices In the Sciencesmentioning

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Listening for Knowledge: Introduction

Bijsterveld

2018

Sonic Skills

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We tend to associate the sciences with seeing-but scientists, engineers, and physicians also use their ears as a means for acquiring knowledge. This chapter introduces this essay's key questions about the role of sound and practices of listening in the sciences, and explicates their relevance for understanding the dynamics of science more generally. It defines the notion of sonic skills, situating it in the wider literature on the auditory dimensions of making knowledge. It presents the case studies on which the essay draws, explaining their geographical, temporal, and methodological scope and the researchers behind them. Keywords Listening for knowledge • Sonic skills • Science • Medicine • Engineering Acoustic signAtures On the afternoon of July 11, 2014, Dutch Public Radio 1 broadcast an interview with science journalist Diederik Jekel. He had breaking news: American geologists had discovered a "super ocean" some 300 miles below the earth's surface. The journalist immediately added a qualification. What the Americans had actually found were some stone minerals, originating from the earth's deep layers, that included water molecules. This prompted the talk show host to ask how certain scientists could be of the super ocean's existence. The journalist explained that the CHAPTER 1

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“…Historians of science Bruno Latour [37], Lissa Roberts [38] and Lorraine Daston [39] have all commented on the key role played in the development of modern science by immutable, standardised, readable and mobile objects or technologies like maps, the printed book and the weight and measure system, for example, which could be transported across qualitative and spatial boundaries and still maintain their consistency. In the context of this project, if all partners have the same sets of samples they can function as "immutable mobiles" [37] that allow for long-distance communication about material properties over email or the phone.…”

Section: Using Materials Sets For Interdisciplinary Communication Of mentioning

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Design tools for interdisciplinary translation of material experiences

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Designers increasingly have the opportunity to influence the development of materials as they emerge from the laboratory. In order for this to be successful, designers need to be able to communicate effectively with materials scientists so that materials can be developed with desired functionalities and properties. This paper reviews evidence in favour of using isomorphic sets of material stimuli as tools to bridge the disciplinary gap between designers and materials scientists.We show how these isomorphic sets and their accompanying experiments can be used to translate between the two communities, and to systematically explore the relationship between the technical attributes of materials and subjective experiences of their sound, taste and feel. This paper also explores the limitations of psychophysical approaches and other quantitative techniques for elucidating material experience, and suggests new possibilities for interdisciplinary collaborations that draw on ethnographic approaches.

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The death of the sensuous chemist: The ‘new’ chemistry and the transformation of sensuous technology

Cited by 50 publications

References 10 publications

Touching the Deep Past

Touching the Deep Past

Listening for Knowledge: Introduction

Design tools for interdisciplinary translation of material experiences

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