Spectrum of belief : Joseph von Fraunhofer and the craft of precision optics /

"In the nineteenth century, scientific practice underwent a dramatic transformation from personal endeavor to business enterprise. In Spectrum of Belief, Myles Jackson uses the career of the optician Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787-1826) to probe the relationship between science and society, and th...

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Main Author: Jackson, Myles W.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2000.
Series:Transformations (MIT Press)
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