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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... physicist , Henry Cavendish - described in Chapter 8 - would leave them baffled . Classification is characteristic ... physicists . In any case , earth and life sciences , mineralogy or botany or whatever , occur only incidentally in my ...
... physicist Max Planck ( 1858-1947 ) to explain a phenomenon known as ' black- body radiation ' . Quanta , in one form or another , have determined the character of physics even since . The underlying principle is simple enough . Change ...
... physicist Hans Bethe , is unimpressed by more recent achievements . When well over eighty he noted that , with the development of quantum mechanics ' the understanding of atoms , molecules , the chemical bond and so on , that was all ...
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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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