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J. Golinski, The nicety of experiment . Precision of measurement and precision of reasoning in late 18th-century chemistry , in The Values of Precision, ed. M. Norton Wise, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1995, pp. 72-91. 

Norton Wise and other scholars have shown us that indicator diagrams came to have a protean quality in the nineteenth century. Not only have they been seen as crucial to representations within thermodynamics but also modifications of them have been traced in physiology (graphs of muscle and nerve action) and even in the supply and demand curves of political economy.57 There is no doubt that these connections are real. However, it is also true that they are not continuous or natural . They involved Helmholtz and Fleeming Jenkin in considerable hard work to make them. Wise puts it this way in the case of Helmholtz ... 

For a symmetric account of mediations between chemistry and physics via the calorimeter, see M. Norton Wise, Mediations Enlightenment Balancing Acts, or the Technologies of Rationalism, in World Changes, ed. P. Horwich (MH Press, 1993). 

John E. Lesch, Science and Medicine in France (Harvard University Press, 1984) M. Norton Wise, Energy and Empire (Cambridge University Press, 1989) Raphael Falk, What Is a Gene. Studies in Fiistory and Philosophy of Science 17, 1986, 133-173. 

Smith, Crosbie, and M. Norton Wise. Energy and Empire A Biographical Study of Lord Kelvin (Cambridge University Press, 1989). 

The famous iron toise of Paris, for example, was set in one of the walls of the Grand Chatelet see Ken Alder, A Revolution Made to Measure The Political Economy of the Metric System in France, in.Norton W. Wise, ed.. Values of Precision (Princeton Princeton University Press, 1995), p. 44. 

SV Smulevitch, CG Simmons, JC Norton, TW Wise, DR Corey. Nat Biotechnol... 

I thank my various co-editors at Foundations of Chemistry, both past and present, including John Bloor, Carmen Giunta, Jeffrey Kovac, and Lee McIntyre. I thank my UCLA colleagues in the Department of Philosophy, including Calvin Normore, Sheldon Smith, and Chris Smeenk and in the Department of History, Ted Porter and Norton Wise. 

Adams, R. (1993). Investigation. In Re Sout/itnountain Coal Co. Inc. No. 3 Mine. Wise County, Norton, VA. Explosion of Dec. 7, 1992 (Deposition). Southmountain, VA U.S. Mine Safety and Health AdministrationA irginia Dept, of Mines. 

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