Author: James WattPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scientists
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Correspondence of the Late James Watt on His Discovery of the Theory of the Composition of Water
Author: James WattPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scientists
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
James Watt (1736-1819)
Author: Malcolm DickPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1789625041
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
James Watt is celebrated as the inventor of the energy efficient pumping and rotative steam engines. Studies of Watt have focused on his inventiveness, influence and reputation. This book explores new aspects of his work and places him in family, social and intellectual contexts during the Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution.
Library of Universal Knowledge
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
Discovering Water
Author: David Philip MillerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351943758
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The 'water controversy' concerns one of the central discoveries of modern science, that water is not an element but rather a compound. The allocation of priority in this discovery was contentious in the 1780s and has occupied a number of 20th century historians. The matter is tied up with the larger issues of the so-called chemical revolution of the late eighteenth century. A case can be made for James Watt or Henry Cavendish or Antoine Lavoisier as having priority in the discovery depending upon precisely what the discovery is taken to consist of, however, neither the protagonists themselves in the 1780s nor modern historians qualify as those most fervently interested in the affair. In fact, the controversy attracted most attention in early Victorian Britain some fifty to seventy years after the actual work of Watt, Cavendish and Lavoisier. The central historical question to which the book addresses itself is why the priority claims of long dead natural philosophers so preoccupied a wide range of people in the later period. The answer to the question lies in understanding the enormous symbolic importance of James Watt and Henry Cavendish in nineteenth-century science and society. More than credit for a particular discovery was at stake here. When we examine the various agenda of the participants in the Victorian phase of the water controversy we find it driven by filial loyalty and nationalism but also, most importantly, by ideological struggles about the nature of science and its relation to technological invention and innovation in British society. At a more general, theoretical, level, this study also provides important insights into conceptions of the nature of discovery as they are debated by modern historians, philosophers and sociologists of science.
The Life of the Hon. Henry Cavendish
Author: George WilsonThe Dictionary of National Biography
Author: Leslie StephenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1468
Book Description
Dictionary of National Biography
Author: Leslie StephenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1466
Book Description
The Dictionary of National Biography, Founded in 1882 by George Smith
Author: The Encyclopaedia Britannica
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
Book Description
James Watt, Chemist
Author: David Philip MillerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317314042
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Miller examines Watt's illustrious engineering career in light of his parallel interest in chemistry, arguing that Watt's conception of steam engineering relied upon chemical understandings.