Description “The careers of three protagonists of metrological work, John Herschel (1792-1871), Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819-1900), and James Clerk Maxwell (1831-79), show how metrological traditions were invented.”
Book Lightman, Bernard (1997) Victorian science in context.
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Ashworth, William J.;
(1998)
John Herschel, George Airy, and the roaming eye of the State
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Painter, John R.;
(1977)
Sir John F. W. Herschel and scientific thought in early 19th-century Britain
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Alborn, Timothy L.;
(1988)
The “End of natural philosophy” revisited: Varieties of scientific discovery
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Bolt, Marvin P.;
(1998)
John Herschel's natural philosophy: On the knowing of nature and the nature of knowing in early-19th-century Britain
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Casini, Paolo;
(1981)
Herschel, Whewell, Stuart Mill e l'“analogia della natura”
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Nevskaia, N.I.;
(1977)
Edinburgskii astronom Charl'z Piatstsi Smit i Russkaia nauka. (The Edinburgh astronomer Charles Piazzi Smyth and Russian science.)
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Wilkes, M.V.;
(1990)
Herschel, Peacock, Babbage and the development of the Cambridge curriculum
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Turvey, Peter J.;
(1991)
Sir John Herschel and the abandonment of Charles Babbage's Difference Engine No. 1
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Becher, Harvey W.;
(1995)
Radicals, Whigs and conservatives: The middle and lower classes in the analytical revolution at Cambridge in the age of aristocracy
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Wilson, David B.;
(1977)
Concepts of physical nature: John Herschel to Karl Pearson
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Ashworth, William J.;
(1996)
Memory, efficiency, and symbolic analysis: Charles Babbage, John Herschel, and the industrial mind
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Schaaf, Larry;
(1980)
Herschel, Talbot, and photography: Spring 1831 and Spring 1839
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Ashworth, William J.;
(1994)
The calculating eye: Baily, Herschel, Babbage and the business of astronomy
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Chapman, Allan;
(1996)
Sir John Herschel and the Leeds Astronomical Society
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Wolfgang Steinicke;
(2021)
William Herschel: Discoverer of the Deep Sky
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Henry, John;
(2007)
Physics in Edinburgh: From Napier's Bones to Higgs's Boson
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Hong, Sungook;
(1994)
Controversy over voltaic contact phenomena, 1862-1900
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Jain, Chaman Lal;
(1975)
Methodology and epistemology: An examination of Sir John Frederick William Herschel's philosophy of science with reference to his theory of knowledge
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Harman, P. M.;
(1985)
Wranglers and physicists: Studies on Cambridge physics in the 19th century
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Porter, Theodore M.;
(1981)
A statistical survey of gases: Maxwell's social physics
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