Download or read book An Empire of Magnetism written by Edward J. Gillin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1840s and 1850s, the British government financed a world-wide investigation into how the Earth's magnetic phenomena operated, consisting of a network of naval expeditions and colonial observatories. Questions surrounding terrestrial magnetism were not just philosophical, but engendered urgent concerns over accurate navigation, on which Britain's commercial and colonial power relied. The British Magnetic Survey was celebrated at the time as the most extensive state-orchestrated scientific enterprise ever conducted. Yet although it was a fundamentally global endeavour, both in terms of its scale and its impact, the experimental instruments and techniques required were to be found amid Britain's booming local industry, where the harnessing of coal and iron, and use of steam power, shaped a scientific culture prominently concerned with the relationship between heat, pressure, and motion. In particular, it was philosophical apparatus fashioned within the mines of Cornwall that the government was able to conscript within this world-wide magnetic investigation. These locally produced experimental techniques and technologies proved capable of transformation into a system for obtaining magnetic measurements from over great expanses of time and space. As An Empire of Magnetism demonstrates, this not only sustained an immense world-wide scientific investigation, but became inseparable from the proliferation of empire, sustaining colonial expansion and unprecedented multi-cultural exchanges as British naval crews and natural philosophers surveyed previously unknown regions in the search for magnetic data. In so doing, Edward Gillin argues that the British Magnetic Survey had broader implications over the formation of the 'modern state', the expansion of nineteenth-century empire, and the development of global science.
Download or read book An Empire of Magnetism written by Edward J. Gillin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-21 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an in-depth, global history of the British Magnetic Survey - the nineteenth-century, British-government-funded efforts to measure and understand the earth's magnetic field. These scientific efforts are situated within the context of the development of 'global science' and the ways they intersected with empire and colonialism.
Download or read book The Maxwellians written by Bruce J. Hunt and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1994-09-15 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Clerk Maxwell published the Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism in 1873. At his death, six years later, his theory of the electromagnetic field was neither well understood nor widely accepted. By the mid-1890s, however, it was regarded as one of the most fundamental and fruitful of all physical theories. Bruce J. Hunt examines the joint work of a group of young British physicists—G. F. FitzGerald, Oliver Heaviside, and Oliver Lodge—along with a key German contributor, Heinrich Hertz. It was these "Maxwellians" who transformed the fertile but half-finished ideas presented in the Treatise into the concise and powerful system now known as "Maxwell's theory."
Download or read book Sound Authorities written by Edward J. Gillin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-02-11 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Sound Authorities, Edward J. Gillin shows how experiences of music and sound played a crucial role in nineteenth-century scientific inquiry in Britain. Where other studies have focused on vision in Victorian England, Gillin focuses on hearing and aurality, making the claim that the development of the natural sciences in Britain in this era cannot be understood without attending to how the study of sound and music contributed to the fashioning of new scientific knowledge. Gillin's book is about how scientific practitioners attempted to fashion themselves as authorities on sonorous phenomena, coming into conflict with traditional musical elites as well as religious bodies. Gillin pays attention to not only musical sound but also the phenomenon of sound in non-musical contexts, specifically, the cacophony of British industrialization, and he analyzes the debates between figures from disparate fields over the proper account of musical experience. Gillin's story begins with the place of acoustics in early nineteenth-century London, examining scientific exhibitions, lectures, and spectacles, as well as workshops, laboratories, and showrooms. He goes on to explore how mathematicians mobilized sound in their understanding of natural laws and their vision of a harmonious order, as well as the convergence of aesthetic and scientific approaches to pitch standardization. In closing, Gillin delves into the era's religious and metaphysical debates over the place of music (and humanity) in nature, the relationship between music and the divine, and the tension between religious/spiritualist understandings of sound and scientific/materialist ones"--
Download or read book An Empire of Ice written by Edward J. Larson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pulitzer Prize–winning author examines South Pole expeditions, “wrapping the science in plenty of dangerous drama to keep readers engaged” (Booklist). An Empire of Ice presents a fascinating new take on Antarctic exploration—placing the famed voyages of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, his British rivals Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton, and others in a larger scientific, social, and geopolitical context. Recounting the Antarctic expeditions of the early twentieth century, the author reveals the British efforts for what they actually were: massive scientific enterprises in which reaching the South Pole was but a spectacular sideshow. By focusing on the larger purpose of these legendary adventures, Edward J. Larson deepens our appreciation of the explorers’ achievements, shares little-known stories, and shows what the Heroic Age of Antarctic discovery was really about. “Rather than recounting the story of the race to the pole chronologically, Larson concentrates on various scientific disciplines (like meteorology, glaciology and paleontology) and elucidates the advances made by the polar explorers . . . Covers a lot of ground—science, politics, history, adventure.” —The New York Times Book Review
Download or read book The Garden of Leaders written by Paul Woodruff and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019-01-18 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Garden of Leaders explores two related questions: What is leadership? And what sort of education could prepare young people to be leaders? Paul Woodruff argues that higher education--particularly but not exclusively in the liberal arts--should set its main focus on cultivating leadership in students. Woodruff advances a new view of liberal arts education that places leadership at the root of everything it does, so that students will be prepared to lead in their lives and careers--and not necessarily in management roles. Woodruff views the contemporary university as sorely lacking an emphasis on leadership, and presents three core sets of recommendations for how they can and should foster it. First, Woodruff posits co-curricular groups, activities, and projects as essential activities for students to gain confidence and leadership skills. Administrations should encourage students to engage in activities outside the classroom, convert coached sports teams into student-led clubs as far as possible, and discourage social organizations that are segregated by race or sex. Second, Woodruff advocates for a different curriculum for all undergraduates, no matter their major-arguing that they need to be taught leadership in the forms of key skills including communication (including good writing, listening, and speaking), as well as exposure to key material in history literature, social science, and ethics. Students should be asked to consider the hardest ethical dilemmas that leaders face, toggling between Machiavelli and great ethical thinkers such as Confucius and Socrates. Third, Woodruff calls for the teaching methods used by instructors to re-orient themselves around the question of leadership, particularly by emphasizing teamwork. Professors should respect their students' independence, avoid tyrannical teaching, and remember that all teachers teach ethics simply by the examples they set in dealing with students. Whether in engineering, music, or classics, The Garden of Leaders advances leadership as a core value that should be at the heart of the educational enterprise-contending that while a college campus can be many things, it should at the very least be a ground upon which new leaders can grow.
Download or read book Researches of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism written by Carnegie Institution of Washington. Department of Terrestrial Magnetism and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Engineering Empires written by B. Marsden and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-12-07 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engineers are empire-builders. Watt, Brunel, and others worked to build and expand personal and business empires of material technology and in so doing these engineers also became active agents of political and economic empire. This book provides a fascinating exploration of the cultural construction of the large-scale technologies of empire.
Download or read book Land Magnetic Observations written by Carnegie Institution of Washington. Department of Terrestrial Magnetism and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the Inductive Sciences XI Electricity XII Magnetism XIII Galvanism or Voltaic electricity XIV Chemistry XV Mineralogy XVI Systematic botany and zoology XVII Physiology and comparative anatomy XVIII Geology written by William Whewell and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pull Of History The Human Understanding Of Magnetism And Gravity Through The Ages written by Yamamoto Yoshitaka and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2017-12-28 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to understand what bring to pass the birth of modern physics by focusing upon the formation of the concept of force. This would be the first book to note the important role magnetism has played in this process. Indeed, the force between celestial bodies, before the introduction of the Isaac Newtonian gravitational force, is first introduced by Johannes Kepler by analogy with the magnetic force. Moreover, this book, by concentrating our attention on the magnetism, fully describes the developments and the recognition of the force concept during the Middle Ages. The detailed description of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance is a strong point of this book. By discussing and emphasizing on the role accomplished by the magnetic force, this book makes clear the connection between the natural magic and the modern experimental physics. This book will open up a new aspect of the birth of modern physics. Contents: PrefaceIntroductionAntiquity and the Middle Ages: Ancient Greece: The Science of Magnetism is BornThe Hellenistic AgeThe Days of the Roman EmpireChristianity in the Middle AgesThe Discovery of Magnetic DirectionalityThomas Aquinas and His Understanding of MagnetismRoger Bacon and the Propagation of Magnetic ForcePetrus Peregrinus and His Letter Concerning the MagnetRenaissance: Nicolaus Cusanus and the Quantification of Magnetic ForceThe Rediscovery of Things Ancient: Magic in the Early Renaissance PeriodThe Age of Exploration and the Discovery of Magnetic DeclinationRobert Norman and The Newe AttractiveMining and the Continued Peculiarity of MagnetismParacelsus and Magnet TherapyChanges in Magical Thought during the Late RenaissanceDella Porta's Investigations into MagnetismThe Dawn of the Modern Age: William Gilbert's On the MagnetJohannes Kepler and the Magnetical PhilosophySeventeenth-century Mechanism and Notions of ForceRobert Boyle and the Transformation of Mechanism in BritainMagnetism and Gravity: Hooke and NewtonEpilogue: Ascertaining the Laws of Magnetic ForceNotesBibliography Readership: History students, philosophy students, general public. Keywords: History;Magnetism;Philosophy;Greek;Modern PhysicsReview:0
Download or read book The Annals of Electricity Magnetism and Chemistry and Guardian of Experimental Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Terrestrial Magnetism and Atmospheric Electricity written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annals of Electricity Magnetism and Chemistry written by and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bibliographical history of electricity magnetism written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bibliographical History of Electricity Magnetism written by Paul Fleury Mottelay and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selected Scientific Works of Hans Christian rsted written by Hans Christian Ørsted and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hans Christian Ørsted (1777-1851) was one of the leading scientists of the nineteenth century, having played a crucial role in founding electromagnetism. Unfortunately for the English-speaking world, almost all of his research was published in other languages, particularly his native Danish. This book will help to elevate Ørsted to his rightful place in the history of science by finally making his most important scientific works available in English. The book includes, for example, Ørsted's account of his revolutionary experiments in electromagnetism. In 1820, he discovered that a compass needle deflects from magnetic north when an electric current is switched on or off in a nearby wire. This showed that electricity and magnetism were related phenomena, a finding that laid the foundation for the theory of electromagnetism and for research that later created such technologies as radio, television, and fiber optics. The unit of magnetic field strength was named the Ørsted in his honor. Selections here also show the extraordinary breadth of Ørsted's interests, which range through a long and prolific career from the study of plant alkaloids and the compression of fluids to the nature of light and the "natural science" of beauty. The writings are taken from scientific papers, Ørsted's correspondence, and reports of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. The book will not only draw long overdue attention to Ørsted's own work but will also shed new light on the nature of scientific study in the nineteenth century. Originally published in 1998. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
