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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... experiments with the interference , diffraction and polarisation of light , coupled with new ideas in mathematics ... experimental result of Ampère's by showing how iron filings , scattered on a circular disc , arranged themselves in ...
... experimental physics in Breslau . Sadly , as so easily happens in academic life , he clashed with another professor in the department , took sick leave on doctor's advice , and went back home to Königsberg . There he met Hermann von ...
... experimental results did not allow for this , but were fully compatible with the quantum explanation . The success of Compton's experiments , and his explanation of the results , did not come easily , and other , older physicists , such ...
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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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