| Description |
1 online resource (x, 284 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Transformations (MIT Press)
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| Contents |
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 |
| 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 |
| Analysis |
PHILOSOPHY/Philosophy of Science & Technology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
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. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Fraunhofer, Joseph von, 1787-1826 -- Knowledge -- Optics
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| SUBJECT |
Fraunhofer, Joseph von, 1787-1826 fast |
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Von Fraunhofer, Joseph, (1787-1826) ram |
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Fraunhofer, Joseph ((von)) swd |
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Spectrum analysis -- History
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Physicists -- Germany -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology.
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SCIENCE -- History.
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Optics
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Physicists
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Spectrum analysis
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Optisches Instrument
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Präzisionsinstrument
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Optica.
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Spectrumanalyse.
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Lenzen.
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Optique -- Histoire -- 19ème siècle.
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Germany
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collective biographies.
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Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
98015177 |
| ISBN |
9780262276160 |
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026227616X |
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0262293609 |
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9780262293600 |
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1423730879 |
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9781423730873 |
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