Article ID: CBB000850425

Between Data, Mathematical Analysis and Physical Theory: Research on Earth's Magnetism in the 19th Century (2008)

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Good, Gregory A. (Author)


Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Volume: 50
Pages: 290--304


Publication Date: 2008
Edition Details: Part of Special Issue “The Empirical and the Formal---Tensions in Scientific Knowledge”
Language: English

Description Discusses the major figures in this history: Alexander von Humboldt, Christopher Hansteen, and Carl Friedrich Gauss.


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Article Steinle, Friedrich; Schiemann, Gregor (2008) Introduction: The Empirical and the Formal---Tensions in Scientific Knowledge. Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology (p. 211). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Josefowicz, Diane Greco
Oldroyd, David Roger
Anduaga Egaña, Aitor
Barraclough, D. R.
Carter, Christopher Ray
Enebakk, Vidar
Journals
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Acta Geodaetica et Geophysica Hungarica
British Journal for the History of Science
Earth Sciences History: Journal of the History of the Earth Sciences Society
Historia Mathematica
Publishers
American Philosophical Society
Geological Society Publishing House
Nauka
Niedersächsische Staats- und Univ.-Bibl.
Concepts
Geomagnetism
Earth sciences
Geophysics
Mathematics
Seismology
Astronomy
People
Gauss, Carl Friedrich
Humboldt, Alexander von
Chapman, Sydney
Halley, Edmond
Hansteen, Christopher
Herschel, John Frederick William
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
20th century, early
16th century
17th century
Places
Great Britain
Germany
Berlin (Germany)
Japan
Russia
Göttingen (Germany)
Institutions
Universität Göttingen
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