Spectrum of belief : Joseph von Fraunhofer and the craft of precision optics /

"In the nineteenth century, scientific practice underwent a dramatic transformation from personal endeavor to business enterprise. In Spectrum of Belief, Myles Jackson uses the career of the optician Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787-1826) to probe the relationship between science and society, and th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jackson, Myles W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2000.
Colección:Transformations (MIT Press)
Temas:
Fraunhofer, Joseph von, > 1787-1826 > Knowledge > Optics.
Fraunhofer, Joseph von, > 1787-1826
Von Fraunhofer, Joseph, > (1787-1826)
Fraunhofer, Joseph ((von))
Spectrum analysis > History.
Physicists > Germany > Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Science & Technology.
SCIENCE > History.
Optics
Physicists
Spectrum analysis
Optisches Instrument
Präzisionsinstrument
Optica.
Spectrumanalyse.
Lenzen.
Optique > Histoire > 19ème siècle.
Germany
PHILOSOPHY/Philosophy of Science & Technology
collective biographies.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Optics before Fraunhofer
  • 3. Artisanal Knowledge and Achromatic Lenses
  • 4. The German Response to Fraunhofer's Private Knowledge
  • 5. The British Crisis
  • 6. The British Response to the Bavarian Threat
  • 7. The End of Fraunhoferian Hegemony
  • 8. Forging an Artisanal History and a Cultural Icon
  • 9. Conclusion.

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