The Role of Tacit Knowledge in Scientific Experimentation

科学实验历史学家帕梅拉·史密斯教授将带领一支由国际跨学科专家和学生组成的团队，重现科学革命期间进行的实验。在2014-15年，重点将是金属加工和肖像奖牌铸造;在2015-16年，颜料制作和绘画;在2016-17年，清漆制作。这些实验室研讨会为人文与科学之间的合作奠定了新的模式，展示了历史研究对实验室活动的相互影响，反之亦然。它将对化学，工程和历史专业的学生产生重大影响，因为学习经验旨在阐明制造和知识之间的关系。这些历史性实验重演将以开放获取的形式向公众开放，研究结果将在多媒体互动在线环境中提供。这一资源对于学者、科学教育工作者和对STEM感兴趣的学生来说将是无价的。 策展人，保护科学家和教育工作者的参与将确保博物馆和其他公共机构能够利用该项目产生的研究来开发公共规划和装置，强调艺术，技术和科学的共同历史以及科学史的价值和历史和科学培训中的实践学习。本项目将阐明技术手册在促进创造性过程和技术能力方面的作用，这些素质有助于工业创新。 重点将是调查自然的物理性，特别是与材料的触觉关系，在实验中产生了前所未有的准确性和创新性，以及隐性知识在方法实验中的作用。 更好地理解体现在科学实验中使用的技术可能会照亮目前的关注与实验复制。

Experimental historian of science, Professor Pamela Smith will lead a team of international interdisciplinary experts and students in the reenactment of experiments that were conducted during the scientific revolution. In 2014-15, the focus will be metalworking and portrait medal casting; in 2015-16, on pigment making and painting; and in 2016-17, on varnish making. These laboratory seminars lay out a new model for collaboration between the humanities and sciences, demonstrating the reciprocal effects of bringing historical research to bear on laboratory activities and vice versa. It will have significant impact on students of chemistry, engineering, and history because the learning experiences are designed to illuminate the relationship between making and knowing. The historic laboratory manual from which these historical experimental reenactments will be drawn will be published in an open-access format open to the public and the results of the research will be made available in a multi-media interactive online environment. This resource will be invaluable to scholars and to science educators and students interested in STEM. The involvement of curators, conservation scientists, and educators will ensure that museums and other public institutions will be able to use the research generated by the project to develop public programming and installations that emphasize the common history of art, technology, and science and the value of history of science and hands-on learning in both historical and scientific training. This project will illuminate the role of technical manuals in fostering the creative process and technical ability, qualities that are instrumental to industrial innovation. The focus will be the physicality of investigating nature, particularly the tactile relationship to materials that produced unprecedented accuracy and innovation in experimentation and on the role of tacit knowledge in methodological experimentation. A better understanding of the embodied techniques used in scientific experimentation may illuminate current concerns with experimental replication.