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Author : David Brewster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : Electronic
ISBN : RMS:RMSSTA$$000000326$$$6
Author : James Clerk Maxwell
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1990-10-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521256259
This is a comprehensive edition of Maxwell's manuscript papers published virtually complete and largely for the first time. Maxwell's work was of central importance in establishing and developing the major themes of the physics of the nineteenth century: his theory of the electromagnetic field and the electromagnetic theory of light and his special place in the history of physics. His fecundity of imagination and the sophistication of his examination of the foundations of physics give particular interest and importance to his writings. Volume I: 1846-1862 documents Maxwell's education and early scientific work and his major period of scientific innovation - his first formulation of field theory, the electromagnetic theory of light and the statistical theory of gases. Important letters and manuscript drafts illuminate this fundamental early work and the volume includes his letters to friends and family, general essays and lectures and juvenilia.
Author : Margaret Maria Gordon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Physicists
ISBN : HARVARD:32044004783494
Author : afterwards GORDON BREWSTER (Margaret Maria)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018624578
Author : Mary Gordon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11001076
Author : Royal Society of Edinburgh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1823
Category : Science
ISBN : PRNC:32101074834167
List of fellows in v. 1-5, 7-16, 20-30, 32-33, 35-41, 45; continued since 1908 in the Proceedings, v. 28-
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1823
Category : Physics
ISBN : UCAL:B3728350
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1823
Category : Physics
ISBN : PSU:000068485276
Author : Myles W. Jackson
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0262100843
In the nineteenth century, scientific practice underwent a dramatic transformation from personal endeavor to business enterprise. In Spectrum of Belief, Myles Jackson explores this transformation through a sociocultural history of the rise of precision optics in Germany. He uses the career of the optician Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787-1826) to probe the relationship between science and society, and between artisans and experimental natural philosophers, during this important transition. Fraunhofer came from a long line of glassmakers. Orphaned at age eleven, the young apprentice moved in with his master, the court decorative glass cutter. At age nineteen, bored with his work and angered by his master's refusal to allow him to study optical theory, Fraunhofer took a position at the Optical Institute assisting in the manufacture of achromatic lenses. Within ten years he was producing the world's finest achromatic lenses and prisms. Housed in an old Benedictine monastery, Fraunhofer's laboratory mirrored the labor of the monks. Because of his secrecy (after his death, even those who had worked most closely with him could not achieve his success), British experimental natural philosophers were unable to reproduce his work. This secrecy, while guaranteeing his institute's monopoly, thwarted Fraunhofer's attempts to gain credibility within the scientific community, which looked down on artisanal work and its clandestine practices as an affront. The response to the ensuing rise of German optical technology sheds light on crucial social, economic, and political issues of the period, such as mechanization, patent law reform, the role of skills in both physics and society, the rise of Mechanics' Institutes, and scientific patronage. After his death, Fraunhofer's example was used in the newly united Germany to argue for the merging of scientific research and technological innovation with industrial and state support.
Author : David Brewster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1831
Category : Electronic
ISBN : RMS:RMSSTMI1900000322$$$7
Author : Klaus Hentschel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Research
ISBN : 0198509537
Ever since the boom of spectrum analysis in the 1860s, spectroscopy has become one of the most fruitful research technologies in analytic chemistry, physics, astronomy, and other sciences. This book is the first in-depth study of the ways in which various types of spectra, especially the sun's Fraunhofer lines, have been recorded, displayed, and interpreted. The book assesses the virtues and pitfalls of various types of depictions, including hand sketches, woodcuts, engravings, lithographs and, from the late 1870s onwards, photomechanical reproductions. The material of a 19th-century engraver or lithographer, the daily research practice of a spectroscopist in the laboratory, or a student's use of spectrum posters in the classroom, all are looked at and documented here. For pioneers of photography such as John Herschel or Hermann Wilhelm Vogel, the spectrum even served as a prime test object for gauging the color sensitivity of their processes. This is a broad, contextual portrayal of the visual culture of spectroscopy in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The illustrations are not confined to spectra--they show instruments, laboratories, people at work, and plates of printing manuals. The result is a multifacetted description, focusing on the period from Fraunhofer up to the beginning of Bohr's quantum theory. A great deal of new and fascinating material from two dozen archives has been included. A must for anyone interested in the history of modern science or in research practice using visual representations.
Author : Jed Z. Buchwald
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789400917842
The articles in this first volume of ARCHIMEDES explicitly and intentionally cross boundaries between science and technology, and they also illuminate one another. The first three contributions concern optics and industry in 19th century Germany; the fourth concerns electric standards in Germany during the same period; the last essay in the volume examines a curious development in the early history of wireless signalling that took place in England, and that has much to say about the establishment and enforcement of standard methods in a rapidly-developing technology that emerged out of a scientific effect. Historical work over the last few decades has shown that technology cannot be characterized simply, or even usually, as applied science. The beliefs, the devices, and the natural objects that are created or discovered by scientists, often play altogether minor roles in the construction of technologies. Taking this realization as a given, the essays in Scientific Credibility and Technical Standards effectively argue that we must now seek to go beyond it; we must also begin to think carefully about the role that science actually did play when it was explicitly deployed by technologists.
Author : Barbara J. Becker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781139497251
Challenging traditional accounts of the origins of astrophysics, this book presents the first scholarly biography of nineteenth-century English amateur astronomer William Huggins (1824–1910). A pioneer in adapting the spectroscope to new astronomical purposes, William Huggins rose to scientific prominence in London and transformed professional astronomy to become a principal founder of the new science of astrophysics. The author re-examines his life and career, exploring unpublished notebooks, correspondence and research projects to expose the boldness of this scientific entrepreneur. While Sir William Huggins is the main focus of the book, the involvement of Lady Margaret Lindsay Huggins (1848–1915) in her husband's research is examined, where it may have been previously overlooked or obscured. Written in an engaging style, this book has broad appeal and will be valuable to scientists, students and anyone interested in the history of astronomy.
Author : Royal Society (Great Britain). Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN : HARVARD:32044062325964
Author : David Cahan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 701 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1994-01-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780520914094
Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894) was a polymath of dazzling intellectual range and energy. Renowned for his co-discovery of the second law of thermodynamics and his invention of the ophthalmoscope, Helmholtz also made many other contributions to physiology, physical theory, philosophy of science and mathematics, and aesthetic thought. During the late nineteenth century, Helmholtz was revered as a scientist-sage—much like Albert Einstein in this century. David Cahan has assembled an outstanding group of European and North American historians of science and philosophy for this intellectual biography of Helmholtz, the first ever to critically assess both his published and unpublished writings. It represents a significant contribution not only to Helmholtz scholarship but also to the history of nineteenth-century science and philosophy in general.