Author: Robert T. LagemannPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomical instruments
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The Garland Collection of Classical Physics Apparatus at Vanderbilt University
Author: Robert T. LagemannPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomical instruments
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Adventures with Lissajous Figures
Author: Thomas B Greenslade JrPublisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers
ISBN: 1643270109
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Lissajous Figures are produced by combining two oscillations at right angles to each other. The figures, drawn by mechanical devices called Harmonographs, have scientific uses, but are also enjoyed for their own beauty. The author has been working with harmonographs since his undergraduate days, has built several of them, lectured about them and has written articles about them. This book is intended for people who enjoy physics or art or both. Certainly physics professionals, both students and faculty members, will enjoy reading about an interesting byway of physics. The book is mainly designed for the reader who has some scientific literacy, but who may not be a scientist. If your mathematics is rusty, a preliminary section on mathematics supplies the necessary background for reading the rest of the book.
The Immortal Fire Within
Author: William SheehanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521444897
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
This, the first full-length biography of Edward Emerson Barnard, tells the remarkable tale of endurance and achievement of one of the leading astronomers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Through his career, Barnard scoured the heavens endlessly, leaving an astonishing legacy of observations - of planets, satellites, comets, double stars, bright and dark nebulae, and globular clusters - that make him one of the greatest observers of all time.Beautifully illustrated throughout, this book includes many of Barnard's famous wide-field photographs of comets and the Milky Way. It provides a complete history of Barnard's fascinating life and work, and offers unusual insight into the astronomers he knew and observatories with which he was associated and will be of interest to astronomers and historians of science.
Parallel Lives of Astronomers
Author: William SheehanPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031688007
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Altered Sensations
Author: David PantalonyPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9048128161
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Rudolph Koenig was one of the more prolific and colourful instrument makers in the renowned nineteenth-century precision instrument trade of Paris. Beginning his career as a violin maker, in 1858 the young Prussian immigrant shifted his talents towards the growing field of acoustics. Altered Sensations is a portrait of his vibrant atelier, a place of construction, commerce and experiment. For over forty years it was also a popular meeting place for scientists, artisans, musicians and teachers. Using archival and collection research from across North American and Europe, David Pantalony has traced the material and social influences of this space on the development of modern acoustics. In particular, he has detailed the manner in which Koenig modified, extended, spread and challenged Hermann von Helmholtz's Sensations of Tone. A large part of the research on Koenig comes from the actual products of his workshop which survive in museums and collections around the world. The second section of Altered Sensations provides a Catalogue Raisonné of Koenig’s entire line of instruments, including their history, details from specific examples, locations, and references in the literature. This catalogue will serve as a practical guide for curators and researchers as well as a comprehensive overview of nineteenth-century acoustical practice.
To Quarks and Quasars
Author: Robert T. LagemannPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
The Vanderbilt Campus
Author: Robert A. McGawPublisher: Vanderbilt University Press (TN)
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
In addition to the captions of pictures, there are 25 brief essays on aspects of the campus, and alphabetical list and identification of persons for whom buildings are named, a chronological list of buildings along with their principal architects, and an index.
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