Article ID: CBB000048291

Applied mathematics and the quantification of experimental physics: The example of barometric hypsometry (1985)

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Description “The origins of barometric hypsometry [the measurement of heights from differences in atmospheric pressure] lay in applied mathematics, from which it did not migrate to experimental physics until the mid-18th century. Its successful employment in surveying after 1770 renewed the connection with applied mathematics. Barometric hypsometry thus presents a good opportunity to study the interaction of applied mathematics and experimental physics in the early modern period.”


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Authors & Contributors
Gall, Céline Le
Morrison-Low, A. D.
Zuidervaart, Huibert Jan
Weiss, Burghard
Six, James
Poskett, James
Journals
British Journal for the History of Science
Rittenhouse: Journal of the American Scientific Instrument Enterprise
Revue d'Histoire des Sciences
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
Gesnerus
Publishers
Presses Universitaires de Rennes
Oxford University Press
Nimbus Books
Brepols Publishers
Concepts
Measuring instruments
Instruments, navigational
Meteorology
Astronomy
Experiments and experimentation
Scientific apparatus and instruments
People
Lalande, Joseph Jérôme le Français de
Fontana, Felice Gaspar Ferdinand
Coulomb, Charles Augustin de
Watt, James
Six, James
Short, James
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
17th century
Enlightenment
Places
France
England
Scotland
Netherlands
Institutions
Académie des Sciences, Paris
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