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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... Apparatus for demonstrating light interference page 84 Map of France showing the five astronomical stations used for establishing the metric system page 98 The Voyager spacecraft , showing most of the external instrumentation page 102 ...
... apparatus allowed to be varied ) . The experiment also worked just as well when a cardboard tube replaced the iron core . Less than a month later , on 24 September , new apparatus , substituting magnets for the A coil , produced the ...
... apparatus and theorists proposing a world of almost unimaginable complexity . In this new era , one theme above all others has dominated physics : this , simply stated , is the relation between elementary particles and electromagnetic ...
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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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