Author: Gertrude Ziani de FerrantiPublisher:
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The Life and Letters of Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti
Author: Gertrude Ziani de FerrantiPublisher:
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The Life and Letters of Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti, Etc. [With Plates, Including Portraits and Facsimiles.].
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Author: Gertrude Ziani de FerrantiPublisher:
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The Life and Letters of Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti. By G. Ziani de Ferranti ... and Richard Ince, Etc. [With Plates, Including Portraits.].
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Author: Gertrude ZIANI DE FERRANTIPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 240
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The Life and Letters of Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti
Author: Gertrude Ince Ziani De FerrantiPublisher:
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Category : Electric engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti
Author: H. ScholeyDoctor Ferrenti
Author: Noel Currer-BriggsIndbydelsesskrift i anl. af... Nedlaeggelse af grundstenen til nye Bygninger for det kgl. norske... Universitet... den 2 sept. 1841
Author: Communicating Physics
Author: Josep SimonPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822981688
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 519
Book Description
The textbooks written by Adolphe Ganot (1804-1887) played a major role in shaping the way physics was taught in the nineteenth century. Ganot's books were translated from their original French into more than ten languages, including English, allowing their adoption as standard works in Britain and spreading their influence as far as North America, Australia, India and Japan. Simon's Franco-British case study looks at the role of Ganot's two textbooks: Traite elementaire de physique experimentale et appliquee (1851) and Cours de physique purement experimentale (1859), and their translations into English by Edmund Atkinson. The study is novel for its international comparison of nineteenth-century physics, its acknowledgement of the role of book production on the impact of the titles, and for its emphasis on the role of communication in the making of science.
Popularizing Science and Technology in the European Periphery, 1800–2000
Author: Faidra PapanelopoulouPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317077911
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
The vast majority of European countries have never had a Newton, Pasteur or Einstein. Therefore a historical analysis of their scientific culture must be more than the search for great luminaries. Studies of the ways science and technology were communicated to the public in countries of the European periphery can provide a valuable insight into the mechanisms of the appropriation of scientific ideas and technological practices across the continent. The contributors to this volume each take as their focus the popularization of science in countries on the margins of Europe, who in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries may be perceived to have had a weak scientific culture. A variety of scientific genres and forums for presenting science in the public sphere are analysed, including botany and women, teaching and popularizing physics and thermodynamics, scientific theatres, national and international exhibitions, botanical and zoological gardens, popular encyclopaedias, popular medicine and astronomy, and genetics in the press. Each topic is situated firmly in its historical and geographical context, with local studies of developments in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Hungary, Denmark, Belgium and Sweden. Popularizing Science and Technology in the European Periphery provides us with a fascinating insight into the history of science in the public sphere and will contribute to a better understanding of the circulation of scientific knowledge.
The Morals of Measurement
Author: Graeme GoodayPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521430982
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The Morals of Measurement is a contribution to the social histories of quantification and electrical technology in nineteenth-century Britain, Germany and France. It shows how the advent of commercial electrical lighting stimulated the industrialization of electrical measurement from a skilled labour-intensive activity to a mechanized practice. Challenging traditional accounts that focus on the metrological standards used in measurement, this book shows the central importance of trust when measurement was undertaken in an increasingly complex division of labour. Alongside ambiguities about the very nature of measurement and the respective responsibilities of humans and technologies in generating error-free numbers, the book also addresses controversies over the changing identity of the measurer through the themes of body, gender and authorship. The reader will gain fresh insights into a period when measurement was widely treated as the definitive means of gaining knowledge of the world.