Author: Alexander TillochPublisher: London : Henry Fisher
ISBN:
Category : Mechanic engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The Mechanic's Oracle & Artisan's Laboratory and Workshop
Author: Alexander TillochPublisher: London : Henry Fisher
ISBN:
Category : Mechanic engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Mechanic's Oracle, and Artisan's Laboratory & Workshop
Author: The Lamp Of Learning
Author: W H BrockPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 0203211677
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
The story of the development of Taylor and Francis in this text is more than an isolated account of one small company - it throws light on the whole process of scientific communication during the last 200 years. In this bicentenary edition the story of the company's growth from the launch of the "Philosophical Magazine" and other scientific periodicals and books, into a significant academic publishing player is brought within the context of late 20th-century innovation and expansion.
A Catalogue of Books, Manuscripts, Specimens of Clocks, Watches and Watchwork, Paintings, Prints in the Library and Museum of Worshipful Company of Clockmakers
Author: AnonPublisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473339421
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
This vintage book contains a comprehensive catalogue of books, articles, manuscripts, and other material related to watch making and maintenance up until 1875. Each article listed in the catalogue contains information relating to the title of the work, its author(s), when and by whom it was published, the number of volumes, helpful notes, and any other appropriate information. This volume will be of considerable utility to those with an interest in vintage watchmaking literature. Contents include: "Books", "Manuscripts", "Prints", "Specimens", and "Portraits". Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on the history of clocks and watches. First published in 1875.
The Scientific Journal
Author: Alex CsiszarPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022655337X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
Not since the printing press has a media object been as celebrated for its role in the advancement of knowledge as the scientific journal. From open communication to peer review, the scientific journal has long been central both to the identity of academic scientists and to the public legitimacy of scientific knowledge. But that was not always the case. At the dawn of the nineteenth century, academies and societies dominated elite study of the natural world. Journals were a relatively marginal feature of this world, and sometimes even an object of outright suspicion. The Scientific Journal tells the story of how that changed. Alex Csiszar takes readers deep into nineteenth-century London and Paris, where savants struggled to reshape scientific life in the light of rapidly changing political mores and the growing importance of the press in public life. The scientific journal did not arise as a natural solution to the problem of communicating scientific discoveries. Rather, as Csiszar shows, its dominance was a hard-won compromise born of political exigencies, shifting epistemic values, intellectual property debates, and the demands of commerce. Many of the tensions and problems that plague scholarly publishing today are rooted in these tangled beginnings. As we seek to make sense of our own moment of intense experimentation in publishing platforms, peer review, and information curation, Csiszar argues powerfully that a better understanding of the journal’s past will be crucial to imagining future forms for the expression and organization of knowledge.
Science Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Author: Gowan DawsonPublisher:
ISBN: 022667651X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
"Significant characteristics of modern scientific journals, including their role in the certification and registration of scientific knowledge, emerged only toward the end of the nineteenth and into the twentieth century. The nineteenth century was a period of rapid expansion and diversification in scientific periodicals, and this collection sets the historical exploration of those periodicals on a new footing, examining their distinctive purposes and character. Specifically, it shows the important role they played in expanding, developing, and organizing communities of scientific practitioners and devotees during a century that witnessed blanket transformations in the scientific enterprise"--
The Repertory of Arts, Manufactures, and Agriculture
Author: Catalogue of the Library of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers of London
Author: Worshipful Company of Clockmakers. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clocks and watches
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Catalogue of the Guildhall Library of the City of London
Author: Guildhall Library (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 1154
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Great Seal Patent Office
Author: Great Britain. Patent Office. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description