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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1. Verfasser: Jackson, Myles W. 1964- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] The MIT Press 2000
Schriftenreihe:Transformations: studies in the history of science and technology
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Zusammenfassung:"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 that between artisans and experimental natural philosophers, during this transformation."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:X, 284 S. Ill., graph. Darst.
ISBN:0262100843

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