Doing Physics: How Physicists Take Hold of the World

Preface 1. The Division of Labor: The Factory 2. Taking Apart and Putting Together: The Clockworks, the Calculus, and the Computer 3. Freedom and Necessity: Family and Kinship 4. The Vacuum and the Creation: Setting a Stage 5. Handles, Probes, and Tools: A Rhetoric of Nature Suggestions for Further Reading Notes Index of Topics Index of Names and Subjects