Download or read book The Whipple Museum of the History of Science Catalogue Electrical and magnetic instruments written by Whipple Museum of the History of Science and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Whipple Museum of the History of Science written by Joshua Nall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A window into cultures of scientific practice drawing on the collection of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Download or read book Reader s Guide to the History of Science written by Arne Hessenbruch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reader's Guide to the History of Science looks at the literature of science in some 550 entries on individuals (Einstein), institutions and disciplines (Mathematics), general themes (Romantic Science) and central concepts (Paradigm and Fact). The history of science is construed widely to include the history of medicine and technology as is reflected in the range of disciplines from which the international team of 200 contributors are drawn.
Download or read book Irish National Inventory of Historic Scientific Instruments written by Charles Mollan and published by Charles Mollan. This book was released on 1995-11-15 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carried out over a period of ten years, this is a listing of scientific instruments dating before 1920, preserved in many collections throughout the island of Ireland. It gives location, date, and description for each of the more than 5,000 entries, together, where appropriate, with relevant accompanying detail. It demonstrates clearly that Ireland has an important resource which hitherto had not been appreciated. It also preserves information about collections which have since been lost, sold, or otherwise dispersed.
Download or read book Catalogue of Pneumatical Magnetical and Electrical Instruments written by Willem Dirk Hackmann and published by Giunti Editore. This book was released on 1995 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell Volume 3 1874 1879 written by James Clerk Maxwell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive edition of Maxwell's manuscript papers published virtually complete and largely for the first time.
Download or read book The Values of Precision written by M. Norton Wise and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Values of Precision examines how exactitude has come to occupy such a prominent place in Western culture. What has been the value of numerical values? Beginning with the late eighteenth century and continuing into the twentieth, the essays in this volume support the view that centralizing states--with their increasingly widespread bureaucracies for managing trade, taxation, and armies--and large-scale commercial enterprises--with their requirements for standardization and mass production--have been the major promoters of numerical precision. Taking advantage of the resources available, scientists and engineers have entered a symbiotic relationship with state and industry, which in turn has led to increasingly refined measures in ever-widening domains of the natural and social world. At the heart of this book, therefore, is an inquiry into the capacity of numbers and instruments to travel across boundaries of culture and materials. Many of the papers focus attention on disagreements about the significance and the credibility of particular sorts of measurements deployed to support particular claims, as in the measures of the population of France, the electrical resistance of copper, or the solvency of insurance companies. At the same time they display the deeply cultural character of precision values. Contributors to the volume include Ken Alder, Graeme J. N. Gooday, Jan Golinski, Frederic L. Holmes, Kathryn M. Olesko, Theodore M. Porter, Andrea Rusnock, Simon Schaffer, George Sweetnam, Andrew Warwick, and M. Norton Wise.
Download or read book The Morals of Measurement written by Graeme Gooday and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Morals of Measurement is a contribution to the social histories of quantification and electrical technology in nineteenth-century Britain, Germany and France. It shows how the advent of commercial electrical lighting stimulated the industrialization of electrical measurement from a skilled labour-intensive activity to a mechanized practice. Challenging traditional accounts that focus on the metrological standards used in measurement, this book shows the central importance of trust when measurement was undertaken in an increasingly complex division of labour. Alongside ambiguities about the very nature of measurement and the respective responsibilities of humans and technologies in generating error-free numbers, the book also addresses controversies over the changing identity of the measurer through the themes of body, gender and authorship. The reader will gain fresh insights into a period when measurement was widely treated as the definitive means of gaining knowledge of the world.
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Download or read book Public Private Science written by Alan Q. Morton and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A description of the remarkable King George III Collection in the Science Museum, London, a unique collection of 18th-century scientific apparatus containing some 1,000 (often quite beautiful) items used for the demonstrations that were a standard feature of courses on natural philosophy by 1750. Two main groups within the collection reflect private science, represented by the fine instruments George III commissioned for his own collection, and public science, the similar but more utilitarian demonstration equipment assembled by an itinerant lecturer, Stephen Demainbray. Following introductory chapters that explore the spread of scientific knowledge in the 18th century, the main part of this lovely volume is a detailed catalogue of the entire collection, with newly commissioned photographs (many in color) of almost every item. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Download or read book Information Sources in Physics written by Dennis F. Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third edition includes two new chapters on quantum optics and physics of materials, and eight of the other chapters have been completely rewritten by new authors. All chapters have been revised and updated. Patent coverage now includes European and international patents. Theoretical materials a
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Download or read book Science Preserved written by Mary Holbrook and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Domesday Book of historical scientific instruments in the United Kingdom and Eire. At its core is an inventory in which are individually described some 3700 instruments from collections throughout the British Isles. Astronomical, mathematical, optical and other types of instrument are all covered, as well as philosophical, physical and chemical apparatus. The inventory is preceded by a substantial glossary in which more than 50 categories of instrument are described, from abacus and air pump to waywiser and wheel-cutting engine.
Download or read book Vulgar and Mechanick written by James Eugene Burnett and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
