Download or read book Mid nineteenth Century Barometers written by John Henry Belville and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mid nineteenth Century Barometers written by John Henry Belville and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mid Nineteenth Century Barometers Being a Reprint of Manual of the Mercurial and Aneroid Barometers 1858 written by John Henry Belville and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mid nineteenth Century Barometers written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Antique Barometers written by Edwin Banfield and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Very little has been written about the domestic mercurial and aneroid barometer and this prompted the author to write this illustrated survey in the hope that it will widen the knowledge and understanding of barometers generally and, perhaps, increase their popularity.

Download or read book Navigational Instruments written by Richard Dunn and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over two-thirds of the globe covered by water, the ability to navigate safely and quickly across the oceans has been crucial throughout human history. As seafarers attempted longer and longer voyages from the sixteenth century onwards in search of profit and new lands, the tools of navigation became ever more sophisticated. The development of instruments over the last five hundred years has seen some revolutionary changes, spurred on by the threat of disaster at sea and the possibility of huge rewards from successful voyages. As this book shows, the solution of the infamous longitude problem, the extraordinary impact of satellite positioning and other advances in navigation have successfully brought together seafarers, artisans and scientists in search of better ways of getting from A to B and back again.

Download or read book The Italian Influence on English Barometers from 1780 written by Edwin Banfield and published by ACC Distribution. This book was released on 1993 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author traces the origins and background of the early Italian migrant barometer makers and indicates how they made their way to Britain.

Download or read book The Quest for the True Figure of the Earth written by Michael Rand Hoare and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1730s two expeditions set out from Paris on extraordinary journeys; the first was destined for the equatorial region of Peru, the second headed north towards the Arctic Circle. Although the eighteenth century witnessed numerous such adventures, these expeditions were different. Rather than seeking new lands to conquer or mineral wealth to exploit, their primary objectives were scientific: to determine the Earth's precise shape by measuring the variation of a degree of latitude at points separated as nearly as possible by a whole quadrant of the globe between Equator and North Pole. Although such information had consequences for navigation and cartography, the motivation was not simply utilitarian. Rather it was one theme among many in an intellectual revolution in which advances in mathematics paralleled philosophical strife, and reputations of the living and the dead stood to be elevated or destroyed. In particular the two expeditions hoped to prove the correctness of Isaac Newton's prediction that the Earth is not a perfect sphere, but flattened at the poles. In this study, the 'Figure of the Earth' controversy is for the first time comprehensively explored in all its several dimensions. It shows how a largely neglected episode of European science, that produced no spectacular process or artefact - beyond a relatively minor improvement in maps - nevertheless represents an almost unique combination of theoretical prediction and empirical method. It also details the suffering of the two teams of scientists in very different extremes of climate, whose sacrifices for the sake of knowledge rather than colonial gain, caught the imagination of the literary world of the time.

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Download or read book Instruments of Science written by Robert Bud and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1998 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 300 entries from the ancient abacus to X-ray diffraction, as represented by a ca. 1900 photo of an X- ray machine as well as the latest research into filmless x- ray systems, this tour of the history of scientific instruments in multiple disciplines provides context and a bibliography for each entry. Newer conceptions of "instrument" include organisms widely used in research: e.g. the mouse, drosophila, and E. coli. Bandw photographs and diagrams showcase more traditional instruments from The Science Museum, London, and the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book Historic Scientific Instruments in Denmark written by Hemming Andersen and published by Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab. This book was released on 1996 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The History of the Barometer written by W. E. Knowles Middleton and published by Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Press. This book was released on 1964 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the development of the barometer as a scientific instrument from the experiments and controversies of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to the precision instruments of today.

Download or read book English Barometers 1680 1860 written by Nicholas Goodison and published by ACC Distribution. This book was released on 1977 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive history of domestic barometers made between 1680 and 1860, their makers and retailers. The book provides a brief technical introduction explaining how barometers work, biographies of the fifty most important makers and a listing of 2,000 other makers.

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Download or read book Schooling in Transition written by Sara Z. Burke and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2011-12-13 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of two centuries of formal education in Canada in which the accomodation of minority needs and local versus central control are recurring themes.

Download or read book National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes entries for maps and atlases.

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