Author: Baden PowellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geometrical optics
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
A Short Elementary Treatise on Experimental and Mathematical Optics
Author: Baden PowellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geometrical optics
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Science and Religion
Author: Pietro CorsiPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521242452
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Science and Religion assesses the impact of social, political and intellectual change upon Anglican circles, with reference to Oxford University in the decades that followed the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars. More particularly, the career of Baden Powell, father of the more famous founder of the Boy Scout movement, offers material for an important case-study in intellectual and political reorientation: his early militancy in right-wing Anglican movements slowly turned to a more tolerant attitude towards radical theological, philosophical and scientific trends. During the 1840s and 1850s, Baden Powell became a fearless proponent of new dialogues in transcendentalism in theology, positivism in philosophy, and pre-Darwinian evolutionary theories in biology. He was for instance the first prominent Anglican to express full support for Darwin's Origin of Species. Analysis of his many publications, and of his interaction with such contemporaries as Richard Whately, John Henry and Francis Newman, Robert Chambers, William Benjamin Carpenter, George Henry Lewes and George Eliot, reveals hitherto unnoticed dimensions of mid-nineteenth-century British intellectual and social life.
Catalogue of the Scientific Books in the Library
Author: Royal Society (Great Britain).Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1248
Book Description
American Journal of Science
Author: American Journal of Science and Arts
Author: The American Journal of Science and Arts
Author: The American Journal of Science
Author: History of the Principle of Interference of Light
Author: N. KipnisPublisher: Birkhäuser
ISBN: 3034886527
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The controversy between the wave theory and the emission theory of light early in the nineteenth century has been a subject of numerous studies. Yet many is sues remain unclear, in particular, the reasons for rejecting Young's theory of light. It appears that further progress in the field requires a better grasp of the overall situation in optics and related subjects at the time and a more thorough study of every factor suggested to be of importance for the dispute. This book is intended to be a step in this direction. It examines the impact of the concept of interference of light on the development of the early nineteenth century optics in general, and the theory of light, in particular. This is not a his tory of the wave theory of light, nor is it a history of the debate on the nature of light in general: it covers only that part of the controversy which involved the concept of interference. Although the book deals with a number of scientists, scientific institutions, and journals, its main character is a scientific concept, the principle of interference. While discussing the reasons for accepting or rejecting this concept I have primarily focused on scientific factors, although in some cases the human factor is examined as well. The book is a revised Ph. D. dissertation (University of Minnesota, 1984) writ ten under Alan E. Shapiro.
Year Book
Author: British Optical AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ophthalmology
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Catalogue of books, pamphlets, &c. presented to the Ashmolean society
Author: Ashmolean society librPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description