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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... result came to the notice of Volta , who showed that the effect observed had nothing to do with animals , but depended solely on the difference between the two metals and the nature of the substance that separated them . This result ...
... result of the whole process : one can compare it with the accumulation of debris on the floor of a valley as the result of rockfalls . On the far side of the valley , energy is released not by fusion but by fission , with the highest ...
... result is a capacity to form compounds so restricted that the first instances were only discovered in 1962 . Notation the use of special signs , or the idiosyncratic use of common signs , such as letters in chemical compounds , to ...
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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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