Book ID: CBB000110266

The Command of Light: Rowland's School of Physics and the Spectrum (2000)

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Sweetnam, George Kean (Author)


American Philosophical Society


Publication Date: 2000
Physical Details: xxvi + 233 pp., frontis., illus., tables, bibl., index
Language: English

Description Henry Rowland's invention of the concave diffraction grating “and the transformation that it wrought in experimental spectroscopy”.


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Review Brooks, Randall (2002) Review of "The Command of Light: Rowland's School of Physics and the Spectrum". Rittenhouse: Journal of the American Scientific Instrument Enterprise (p. 54). unapi

Review Hentschel, Klaus (2003) Review of "The Command of Light: Rowland's School of Physics and the Spectrum". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 154). unapi

Essay Review Pitts, J. Brian (2005) [Essay review]. Aestimatio: Critical Reviews in the History of Science (pp. 33-38). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Hentschel, Klaus
Brown, C. N.
Sweetnam, George Kean
Bruni, Bruno
Stanley, Matthew
Viard, Jérôme
Journals
Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Science in Context
Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza
Physics in Perspective
Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau
Publishers
Pavia University Press
Adapt
Princeton University
Concepts
Physics
Spectroscopy
Light
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Astronomy
Electromagnetic waves; radiation
People
Rowland, Henry Augustus
Fossombroni, Vittorio
Rogers, William Barton
Young, James
Steinheil, Carl August
Rutherfurd, Lewis Morris
Time Periods
19th century
Early modern
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
Edo period (Japan, 1603-1868)
Places
Italy
Naples (Italy)
United States
Japan
Europe
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