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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2024-06-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004689109 |
Can a scientific instrument be regarded as a failure? Why and how? By shedding light on the complexity of these questions, the volume marks a step forward in the way historical scientific instruments can be analysed and displayed. The essays show how diverse failures can be, and how the assessment of scientific devices may change over time — some surprisingly becoming more successful. In addition to studies of how technical features led to failure, the authors examine the roles played by social bias and behaviour, commercial and economic circumstances, and political factors.
Author | : Charles Mollan |
Publisher | : Charles Mollan |
Total Pages | : 724 |
Release | : 1995-11-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1898706050 |
Carried out over a period of ten years, this is a listing of scientific instruments dating before 1920, preserved in many collections throughout the island of Ireland. It gives location, date, and description for each of the more than 5,000 entries, together, where appropriate, with relevant accompanying detail. It demonstrates clearly that Ireland has an important resource which hitherto had not been appreciated. It also preserves information about collections which have since been lost, sold, or otherwise dispersed.
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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2021-11-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9004499679 |
When science’s “black boxes” are pried open, its workings become accessible. Like time-travellers into history but grounded in today’s cultures, learners interact directly with authentic instruments and replicas. Chapters describe educational experiences sparked through collaborations interrelating museum, school and university.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Transportation, Aviation, and Materials |
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Total Pages | : 714 |
Release | : 1990 |
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Author | : Arne Hessenbruch |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 965 |
Release | : 2013-12-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134262949 |
The Reader's Guide to the History of Science looks at the literature of science in some 550 entries on individuals (Einstein), institutions and disciplines (Mathematics), general themes (Romantic Science) and central concepts (Paradigm and Fact). The history of science is construed widely to include the history of medicine and technology as is reflected in the range of disciplines from which the international team of 200 contributors are drawn.
Author | : Roger L. Emerson |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 704 |
Release | : 2008-04-29 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0748631291 |
This book considers the politics of patronage appointments at the universities in Glasgow, Edinburgh and St Andrews, exploring the ways in which 388 men secured posts in three Scottish universities between 1690 and 1806. Most professors were political appointees vetted and supported by political factions and their leaders. This comprehensive study explores the improving agenda of political patrons and of those they served and relates this to the Scottish Enlightenment. Emerson argues that what was happening in Scotland was also occurring in other parts of Europe where, in relatively autonomous localities, elite patrons also shaped things as they wished them to be. The role of patronage in the Enlightenment is essential to any understanding of its origins and course.
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Total Pages | : 1224 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : Optical industry |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1949* |
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Author | : Charles Care |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2010-06-25 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 1848829485 |
Historians have different views on the core identity of analogue computing. Some portray the technology solely as a precursor to digital computing, whereas others stress that analogue applications existed well after 1940. Even within contemporary sources, there is a spectrum of understanding around what constitutes analogue computing. To understand the relationship between analogue and digital computing, and what this means for users today, the history must consider how the technology is used. Technology for Modelling investigates the technologies, the concepts, and the applications of analogue computing. The text asserts that analogue computing must be thought of as not just a computing technology, but also as a modelling technology, demonstrating how the history of analogue computing can be understood in terms of the parallel themes of calculation and modelling. The book also includes a number of detailed case studies of the technology's use and application. Topics and features: discusses the meaning of analogue computing and its significance in history, and describes the main differences between analogue and digital computing; provides a chronology of analogue computing, based upon the two major strands of calculation and modeling; examines the wider relationship between computing and modelling, and discusses how the theme of modelling fits within the history of analogue computing; describes how the history of analogue computing evolved through a number of stages of use; presents illustrative case studies on analogue modelling in academic research, oil reservoir modelling, aeronautical design, and meteorology. General readers and researchers in the field of history of computing – as well as history of science more generally – will find this book a fascinating insight into the historical use and evolution of technology. The volume provides a long-needed historical framework and context for these core computing technologies. Dr. Charles Care is a senior software engineer at BT and an Associate Fellow at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Warwick, UK.
Author | : Sir Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 542 |
Release | : 1986-02-27 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 052130783X |
This book documents how space science was started and encouraged to grow both nationally and internationally.