Author: James J. MoorePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oxford (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The Historical Handbook and Guide to Oxford: Embracing a Succinct History of the University and City from the Year 912 ...
Author: James J. MoorePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oxford (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The historical handbook and guide to Oxford
Author: James J. MooreThe Oxford Magazine
Author: Physics in Oxford, 1839-1939
Author: Robert FoxPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019152445X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Physics in Oxford, 1839-1939 offers a challenging new interpretation of pre-war physics at the University of Oxford, which was far more dynamic than most historians and physicists have been prepared to believe. It explains, on the one hand, how attempts to develop the University's Clarendon Laboratory by Robert Clifton, Professor of Experimental Philosophy from 1865 to 1915, were thwarted by academic politics and funding problems, and latterly by Clifton's idiosyncratic concern with precision instrumentation. Conversely, by examining in detail the work of college fellows and their laboratories, the book reconstructs the decentralized environment that allowed physics to enter on a period of conspicuous vigour in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, especially at the characteristically Oxonian intersections between physics, physical chemistry, mechanics, and mathematics. Whereas histories of Cambridge physics have tended to focus on the self-sustaining culture of the Cavendish Laboratory, it was Oxford's college-trained physicists who enabled the discipline to flourish in due course in university as well as college facilities, notably under the newly appointed professors, J. S. E. Townsend from 1900 and F. A. Lindemann from 1919. This broader perspective allows us to understand better the vitality with which physicists in Oxford responded to the demands of wartime research on radar and techniques relevant to atomic weapons and laid the foundations for the dramatic post-war expansion in teaching and research that has endowed Oxford with one of the largest and most dynamic schools of physics in the world.
Nature's Museums
Author: Carla YanniPublisher: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 9781568984728
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Yanni (art history, Rutgers U.) examines the relationship between architecture and science in the 19th century by considering the physical placement and display of natural artifacts in Victorian natural history museums. She begins by discussing the problem of classification, the social history of collecting, as well as architectural competitions an
B.H. Blackwell
Author: B.H. Blackwell LtdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1388
Book Description
Subject Catalog
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1044
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Building Natural History
Author: Carla YanniPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Victorian
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
National Union Catalog
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.