It is common for us today to associate the practice of science
primarily with the act of seeing-with staring at computer screens,
analyzing graphs, and presenting images. We may notice that
physicians use stethoscopes to listen for disease, that biologists
tune into sound recordings to understand birds, or that engineers
have created Geiger tellers warning us for radiation through sound.
But in the sciences overall, we think, seeing is believing. This
open access book explains why, indeed, listening for knowledge
plays an ambiguous, if fascinating, role in the sciences. For what
purposes have scientists, engineers and physicians listened to the
objects of their interest? How did they listen exactly? And why has
listening often been contested as a legitimate form of access to
scientific knowledge? This concise monograph combines historical
and ethnographic evidence about the practices of listening on shop
floors, in laboratories, field stations, hospitals, and conference
halls, between the 1920s and today. It shows how scientists have
used sonic skills-skills required for making, recording, storing,
retrieving, and listening to sound-in ensembles: sets of
instruments and techniques for particular situations of knowledge
making. Yet rather than pleading for the emancipation of hearing at
the expense of seeing, this essay investigates when, how, and under
which conditions the ear has contributed to science dynamics,
either in tandem with or without the eye.
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