Andrew Ellicott Douglass and the Big Trees
By Donald McGraw
The Giant Sequoia was fundamental to the development of the science of dendrochronology—tree-ring dating
This Article From Issue
September-October 2000
Volume 88, Number 5
Page 440
DOI: 10.1511/2000.35.440
Historians and sociologists of science have long been interested in how scientists choose, and subsequently use, their tools, techniques and test organisms. As Adele Clark and Joan Fujimura put it, "[s]cientific work is constrained or enabled" by the tools available to the practicing scientist. Thus, a first order of business for study is to find and then use what Muriel Lederman and Richard Burian termed "the right organism for the job."
Photograph courtesy of the University of Arizona Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research
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