Timothy Lenoir is Professor of the History of Science at Stanford University. He is the author, most recently, of Instituting Science: The Cultural Production of Scientific Disciplines (Stanford, 1997).

• 1. Inscription practices and materialities of communication Timothy Lenoir; 2. The language of strange facts in early modern science Lorraine Daston; 3. Shaping information: mathematics, computing and typography Robin Rider; 4. The technology of mathematical persuasion Brian Rotman; 5. On the take-off of operators Friedrich Kittler; 6. Switchboards and sex: the nut(t) case Bernhard Siegert; 7. Politics on the topographer's table: the helvetic triangulation of cartography, politics, and representation David Gugerli; 8. Writing Darwin's islands: England and the insular condition Gillian Beer; 9. Illustrations as strategy in Charles Darwin's The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals Phillip Prodger; 10. The Leviathan of Parsontown: literary technology and scientific representation Simon Schaffer; 11. Technology, aesthetics and the development of astrophotography at the Lick Observatory Alex Pang; 12. Standards and semiotics Robert Brain; 123. Experimental systems, graphematic spaces; Hans-Jong Rheinberger; 14. Emergent power: vitality and theology in artificial life Richard M. Doyle; 15. Science and writing: two national narratives of failure Lisa Bloom; 16. Perception versus experience: moving pictures and their resistance to interpretation Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht; Notes; Index.

Timothy Lenoir is Professor of the History of Science at Stanford University. He is the author, most recently, of Instituting Science: The Cultural Production of Scientific Disciplines (Stanford, 1997).

• 1. Inscription practices and materialities of communication Timothy Lenoir; 2. The language of strange facts in early modern science Lorraine Daston; 3. Shaping information: mathematics, computing and typography Robin Rider; 4. The technology of mathematical persuasion Brian Rotman; 5. On the take-off of operators Friedrich Kittler; 6. Switchboards and sex: the nut(t) case Bernhard Siegert; 7. Politics on the topographer's table: the helvetic triangulation of cartography, politics, and representation David Gugerli; 8. Writing Darwin's islands: England and the insular condition Gillian Beer; 9. Illustrations as strategy in Charles Darwin's The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals Phillip Prodger; 10. The Leviathan of Parsontown: literary technology and scientific representation Simon Schaffer; 11. Technology, aesthetics and the development of astrophotography at the Lick Observatory Alex Pang; 12. Standards and semiotics Robert Brain; 123. Experimental systems, graphematic spaces; Hans-Jong Rheinberger; 14. Emergent power: vitality and theology in artificial life Richard M. Doyle; 15. Science and writing: two national narratives of failure Lisa Bloom; 16. Perception versus experience: moving pictures and their resistance to interpretation Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht; Notes; Index.