Article ID: CBB000027954

The spectrum of Puppis and the historical evolution of empirical data (1983)

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Description “In order to put Bohr's intervention on this subject [Pickering series] into perspective, I have reconstructed the relevant situation in spectroscopy from 1897, when only three months after its discovery, Pickering's series was attributed to hydrogen, to 1915, when, only two years after Bohr's intervention, spectroscopists had transferred it definitively to helium. In this paper I trace the way the same spectral lines, i.e., the same empirical data, changed in meaning while preserving their quantitative values.”


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Authors & Contributors
Kragh, Helge S.
Yang, Xiaoming
Sutton, M. A.
Suer, Terry-Ann
Shinn, Terry
Rae, Ian D.
Concepts
Spectroscopy
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Astronomy
Discovery in science
Physics
Atomic, nuclear, and particle physics
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
Places
United States
Italy
Germany
France
China
British Isles
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