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.
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2000.
Schriftenreihe:Transformations (MIT Press)
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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."--Jacket
Beschreibung:1 online resource (x, 284 pages) : illustrations
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780262276160
026227616X
0262293609
9780262293600
1423730879
9781423730873

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