Article ID: CBB000033358

Measurement, work, and industry in Lord Kelvin's Britain (1986)

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Description “Lord Kelvin's Britain refers here to the consistent vision of an industrialized empire that transformed plain William Thomson into Sir William and thence into Lord Kelvin. We shall tie together...Pierre Duhem's caricature of British theorizing, particularly Thomson's, as representative of a factory mentality, and Thomson's own perception of measurement as the root of all scientific understanding...We show how measurement expressed Thomson's most cherished ideals of progress, mixing together 'value' as the numerical value of a quantity and 'value' as economic and moral value.”


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Authors & Contributors
Smith, Crosbie W.
Wilson, David Ball
Tipler, Frank J.
Sichau, C.
Sharlin, Harold Issadore
Richter, Frank M.
Journals
American Scientist
Revue d'Histoire des Sciences
Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza
Physics Teacher
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Natural History
Publishers
Hilger
Princeton University
Concepts
Physics
Theories of heat
Geology
Historical geology; theory of the earth
Thermodynamics
Dark energy
People
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
Hertz, Heinrich Rudolph
Darwin, George Howard
Stokes, George Gabriel
Perry, John
Maxwell, James Clerk
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
Places
British Isles
Institutions
University of Glasgow
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