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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... instruments available to it , and , of these , two , the telescope and the microscope , were decisive . Although both revealed new worlds , that of the cosmos , opened up by the telescope , proved to be far more open to exploration and ...
... instruments , is about 1.5 . With Snel at the back of our minds , let us return to the lens , an optical instrument or component first developed some two or three centuries before his time . In its original form this was a curved ...
... instruments such as the tokamak produced temperatures above 10,000,000 ° C . This , the level of plasma physics , defines an entirely new realm , at least for earthbound experimental scientists . For astronomers , such temperatures are ...
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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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