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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... German scientists , Robert Bunsen ( 1811-99 ) and Gustav Kirchhoff ( 1824-87 ) two of the best - known names in nineteenth - century science . Although in early nineteenth - century Germany culture and language were more or less uniform ...
... German prince , anxious not to be left behind , patronised and encouraged science ( hoping at the same time to avoid the dangerous ideas that could accompany it ) . This was a great gain to both the universities and the scientists who ...
... German scientists , Heisenberg , in the course of 1941 , if not earlier , had begun to realise that he himself would be involved in any construction programme . And as Heisenberg noted after the end of the war , ' From September 1941 ...
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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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