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Paperback Spectrum of Belief: Joseph von Fraunhofer and the Craft of Precision Optics Book

ISBN: 0262527235

ISBN13: 9780262527231

Spectrum of Belief: Joseph von Fraunhofer and the Craft of Precision Optics

(Part of the Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology Series)

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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...

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