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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... Laboratory , Madingley Road , Cambridge , UK Lawrence's cyclotron , courtesy of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Rosse's Leviathan , courtesy of the Museum of the History of Science , Oxford ANTARES neutrino detector , courtesy ...
... Laboratory , just south of Oxford . Before leaving England , I must thank one of my oldest friends in the world of science , Prof. Leon Mestel FRS of the University of Sussex , who taught me most of what I know about astronomy . I have ...
... Laboratory . He was a particularly talented glass - blower . His sub- ject , the photoelectric effect in potassium vapour , was esoteric , but followed on the photoelectric formula that had won Albert Einstein a Nobel prize in 1921 ...
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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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