Spectrum of Belief
Joseph von Fraunhofer and the Craft of Precision Optics
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- Paperback
296 pages
- Release Date
11 September 2000
Summary
In the nineteenth century, scientific practice underwent a dramatic transformation from personal endeavor to business enterprise. In Spectrum of Belief, Myles Jackson explores this transformation through a sociocultural history of the rise of precision optics in Germany. He uses the career of the optician Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787-1826) to probe the relationship between science and society, and between artisans and experimental natural philosophers, during this important transition.Fraunhof…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262527231 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262527235 |
| Author: | Myles W. Jackson |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 296 |
| Release Date: | 11 September 2000 |
| Weight: | 470g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 25mm |
| Series: | Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology |
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About The Author
Myles W. Jackson
Myles W. Jackson is Albert Gallatin Research Excellence Professor of the History of Science, NYU-Gallatin;Professor of History, Department of History, NYU-FAS; Director of Science and Society, NYU-CAS; Professor of the Division of Medical Ethics, NYU-Langone School of Medicine; and Faculty Affiliate of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy at the New York University School of Law. He is the author of Spectrum of Belief- Joseph von Fraunhofer and the Craft of Precision Optics and Harmonious Triads- Physicists, Musicians, and Instrument Makers in Nineteenth-Century Germany, both published by the MIT Press.
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