Instruments and apparatus : tools for experimenting
Detecting : hyenas, frogs, zebra fish, and assorted farm animals
Measuring : the bodies of kings, fossils, lichen, and pollen grains
Extending an established domain : dogs, horses, frogs, and trees
Exploring a new domain : a bald mouse, two chimpanzees, and some people
Testing hypotheses : more dogs, monkeys, and ticks
Modelling individuals : yet more dogs, a few mice, and one human stomach
Modelling worlds : voles, peas, fruit flies, finches, and deep oceanic worms
Practising deception : spring wheat and midwife toads
Inventing novel beings : an imaginary cat and virtual life forms.
Pavlov's dogs and Schrödinger's cat : scenes from the living laboratory by Rom Harré. ISBN 9780199238576. Published by Oxford University Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.