Download or read book Geophysics, Realism, and Industry written by Aitor Anduaga Egaña and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Getting Real' is the first book to simultaneously study the emergence of realist attitudes towards the entities (layers) of the ionosphere and the earth's crust. It proposes a new kind of realism: a realism of social and cultural origins, an entity realism responding to specific commercial and engineering interests.