Article ID: CBB000470366

Organizing Sight, Seeing Organization: The Diverging Optical Possibilities of City and Country (2003)

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Levitt, Theresa (Author)


Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Volume: 18
Pages: 101--115


Publication Date: 2003
Edition Details: Part of a volume on the theme of “Science and the City”
Language: English

Description On the Parisian context in which a new optical instrument, the polarimeter, was developed and used.


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Article Dierig, Sven; Lachmund, Jens; Mendelsohn, J. Andrew (2003) Introduction: Toward an Urban History of Science. Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 1). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Levitt, Theresa
Höpfner, Felix
Duck, Michael J.
Descamps, Pascal
Tresch, John
Rueger, Alexander
Journals
Revue d'Histoire des Sciences
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Llull: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de las Técnicas
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Goethe Jahrbuch
Eighteenth-Century Studies
Publishers
Winter
Oxford University Press
de Gruyter
Harvard University
Concepts
Optics
Color theory
Physics
Light
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Speed of light
People
Arago, François Jean Dominique
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Biot, Jean-Baptiste
Newton, Isaac
Le Verrier, Urbain Jean Joseph
Fresnel, Augustin Jean
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
17th century
Places
France
Paris (France)
Institutions
Corps of Road Engineers (Russia)
Observatoire de Paris
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