Chapter ID: CBB000078308

“Nowhere but in a great town”: William Thomson's spiral of classroom credibility (1998)

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Description On William Thomson's classroom and physical laboratory in Glasgow College.


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Book Smith, Crosbie; Agar, Jon; Schmidt, Gerald (1998) Making space for science: Territorial themes in the shaping of knowledge. unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Marsden, Ben
Smith, Crosbie W.
Wise, M. Norton
Wilson, David Ball
Sichau, C.
Moss, Michael S.
Journals
History of Science
British Journal for the History of Science
Revue d'Histoire des Sciences
Physics Teacher
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Natural History
Publishers
University of Kent at Canterbury (United Kingdom)
Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Glasgow
Hilger
Princeton University
Concepts
Physics
Medicine
Technology
Thermodynamics
Civil engineering
Conservation of energy (physical concept)
People
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
Rankine, William John Macquorn
Myers, Levi
Darwin, George Howard
Stokes, George Gabriel
Maxwell, James Clerk
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
Places
British Isles
Scotland
South Carolina (U.S.)
Glasgow (Scotland)
Institutions
University of Glasgow
Royal Society of London
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