http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
447 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
In nine original essays, internationally renowned historians of art and science seek to understand how objects become charged with significance without losing their gritty materiality.
Speechless / Lorraine Daston -- Bosch's equipment / Joseph Leo Koerner -- Freestanding column in eighteenth-century religious architecture / Antoine Picon -- Staging an empire / M. Norton Wise and Elaine M. Wise -- Science whose business is bursting / Simon Schaffer -- Res Ipsa Loquitur / Joel Snyder -- Glass flowers / Lorraine Daston -- Image of self / Peter Galison -- News, papers, scissors / Anke te Heesen -- Talking pictures / Caroline A. Jones.
Includes bibliographical references and index.