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The Earthquake Observers Disaster Science from Lisbon to ~ Seismology abandoned this project of citizen science with the introduction of the Richter Scale in the 1930s only to revive it in the twentyfirst century in the face of new hazards and uncertainties The Earthquake Observers tells the history of this interrupted dialogue between scientists and citizens about living with environmental risk
The Earthquake Observers Disaster Science from Lisbon to ~ Seismology abandoned this project of citizen science with the introduction of the Richter Scale in the 1930s only to revive it in the twentyfirst century in the face of new hazards and uncertainties The Earthquake Observers tells the history of this interrupted dialogue between scientists and citizens about living with environmental risk
The Earthquake Observers Disaster Science from Lisbon to ~ Deborah R Coen is professor of history and chair of Yale University’s Program in History of Science and Medicine She is the author of Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty Science Liberalism and Private Life and The Earthquake Observers Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter both published by the University of Chicago Press
Project MUSE The Earthquake Observers Disaster Science ~ In the “short” twentieth century particularly as the technocratic mindset came to dominate politics and society during the cold war human earthquake observers were progressively replaced by the modern instruments of seismology As a result “human experiences of disaster no longer counted as scientific evidence” End Page 982 p 267 The current era thus presents a sharp contrast to the long nineteenth century in which the divide between science and the public— between expert
The Earthquake Observers Disaster Science from Lisbon to ~ Seismology abandoned this project of citizen science with the introduction of the Richter Scale in the 1930s only to revive it in the twentyfirst century in the face of new hazards and uncertainties The Earthquake Observers tells the history of this interrupted dialogue between scientists and citizens about living with environmental risk
The earthquake observers disaster science from Lisbon to ~ The earthquake observers disaster science from Lisbon to Richter Deborah R Coen Earthquakes have taught us much about our planets hidden structure and the forces that have shaped it This knowledge rests not only on the recordings of seismographs but also on the observations
The Earthquake Observers Disaster Science from Lisbon to ~ The Earthquake Observers Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter by Deborah R Coen Luciana Astiz on how seismology evolved from the combined observations of scientists and citizens April 4 2013
Deborah R Coen The Earthquake Observers Disaster ~ Documenting the creation of and the ongoing debates around earthquake observers and their networks takes the author from Scotland to Switzerland from Austria to California The work is peppered with minibiographies of key scientists such as Alexander von Humboldt and Charles Richter as well as many lesserknown names
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