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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0262527235
ISBN13:9780262527231
Release Date:September 2000
Publisher:MIT Press
Length:296 Pages
Weight:1.05 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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