{
  "id": "scientific-instruments-knowledge-practice-and-culture-editors-introducti-14231",
  "type": "article-journal",
  "title": "Scientific Instruments: Knowledge, Practice, and Culture [Editor’s Introduction]",
  "author": [
    {
      "literal": "Isaac Record"
    }
  ],
  "container-title": "Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science",
  "volume": "4",
  "issue": "1",
  "issued": {
    "date-parts": [
      [
        2010
      ]
    ]
  },
  "URL": "https://spontaneousgenerations.com/articles/scientific-instruments-knowledge-practice-and-culture-editors-introducti-14231/",
  "page": "1-7",
  "DOI": "10.4245/sponge.v4i1.14231",
  "abstract": "To one side of the wide third-floor hallway of Victoria College, just outside the offices of the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, lies the massive carcass of a 1960s-era electron microscope. Its burnished steel carapace has lost its gleam, but the instrument is still impressive for its bulk and spare design: binocular viewing glasses, beam control panel, specimen tray, and a broad work surface. Edges are worn, desiccated tape still feebly holds instructive reminders near control dials; this was once a workhorse in some lab. But it exists now out of time and place; like many of the scientific instruments we study, it has not been touched by knowing hands in decades."
}