Inventing Accuracy by Donald MacKenzie

Inventing Accuracy

A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance

By Donald MacKenzie

Winner of the 1993 Ludwik Fleck Prize presented by the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S).

Published: January 29, 1993

Publisher: The MIT Press

Donald MacKenzie is Professor of Sociology (Personal Chair) at the University of Edinburgh. His books include Inventing Accuracy (1990), Knowing Machines (1996), and Mechanizing Proof (2001), all published by the MIT Press. Portions of An Engine, not a Camera won the Viviana A. Zelizer Prize in economic sociology from the American Sociological Association


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