A Brief History of Science: As Seen Through the Development of Scientific InstrumentsConstable, 2001 - 425 من الصفحات From the beginnings of history, with gnomons and sundials, through to the twenty-first century and the 26-kilometre underground particle accelerator, the author describes the way that the design and production of scientific instruments has extended the frontiers of science. Man's desire to understand the universe has led to the making of more and more sophisticated instruments - first to record and measure (Arab numerals, standardised measures), to examine ever more minutely (the microscope, the lens, the prism), on through electromagnets, cathode tubes, thermometers, vacuum pumps, X-rays, counters and accelerators, semi-conductors and microprocessors, down to new instruments now being designed to observe matter at zero temperatures - presenting immense technological problems in the requirement for instruments that can operate in conditions where normal properties no longer hold. Accessible popular science |
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... Copernican revolu- tion as we know it is scarcely to be found in the De Revolutionibus ' . 12 Today we are so conditioned to the Copernican system that we are oblivious to the fact that in Copernicus ' own day , it created almost as ...
... Copernican . 40 The Dialogue , published in 1632 , takes the form of reporting a discussion , lasting four days , each devoted to a particular theme . Two of the purported participants , Giovanfrancesco Sagredo and Filippo Salviati ...
... Copernican astronomy 389 Copernican system xii , 38-9 Galileo popularises 51 , 52-7 Kepler accepts 42 Copernicus , Nicolaus xii , 38-40 , 44 , 47 , 50 copper alloys , earliest production 14 corona , sun's 319 corpuscular theory of light ...
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From the mastery of fire to science in antiquity | 1 |
Copernicus to Newton | 35 |
Science technology and communication | 77 |
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