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Spectrum of belief : Joseph von Fraunhofer and the craft of precision optics / Myles W. Jackson.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Jackson, Myles W., author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Fraunhofer, Joseph von, 1787-1826--Knowledge and learning--Optics.
Fraunhofer, Joseph von.
Fraunhofer, Joseph von, 1787-1826.
Optics.
Spectrum analysis--History.
Spectrum analysis.
Physicists--Germany--Biography.
Physicists.
History.
Germany.
Genre:
Biographies.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (x, 284 pages) : illustrations
Place of Publication:
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2000.
System Details:
text file
Summary:
"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.
Notes:
OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
ISBN:
9780262276160
026227616X
OCLC:
763128195
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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