Article ID: CBB001201295

Toward an Algorithmic Realism: The Evolving Nature of Astronomical Knowledge in Representations of the Non-Visible (2014)

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This paper explores the gathering of radio, optical and electromagnetic wavelength data in assembling images of the Crab Nebula (1844--2000). The author considers the expanding fields of astronomical and astrophysical knowledge to which such data analysis has given rise. She suggests that the data that makes such imaging possible moves us further from conventions of the optical real toward an algorithmic realism, alluding to time-scales that delimit and circumvent human time. Thus Cartesian metaphysics is displaced---the human becomes one agent among many in a process of algorithmic inference.

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Authors & Contributors
Nasim, Omar W.
Smith, Robert William
Amir, Sulfikar
Boischot, Andre
Capaccioli, Massimo
Cooperstein, Shana
Journals
Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Journal for the History of Astronomy
Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society
Leonardo
Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza
Publishers
Carocci Editore
Deutsches Museum
Harvard University Press
Nauka
Springer
Università degli Studi di Torino
Concepts
Astronomy
Galaxies; nebulae
Astrophysics
Visual representation; visual communication
Telescopes
Astronomical observatories
People
Bracewell, Ronald N.
Chacornac, Jean
Christiansen, Wilbur Norman
Flammarion, Camille
Fresnel, Augustin Jean
Herschel, John Frederick William
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
21st century
20th century, late
18th century
Ancient
Places
Great Britain
Chile
Paris (France)
Australia
Europe
France
Institutions
Mount Wilson Observatory
Observatoire de Paris
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