Article ID: CBB000051167

Artisanal knowledge and experimental natural philosophers: The British response to Joseph Fraunhofer and the Bavarian usurpation of their optical empire (1994)

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Description “This paper analyses how two very different scientific cultures, one in Britain and one in Bavaria, attempted to achieve the same goal: the production of achromatic lenses. These two cultures had very different views of skilled labour and of what constituted necessary and sufficient knowledge for optical lens production.”


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Authors & Contributors
Jackson, Myles W.
Chen, Xiang
Riekher, Rolf
Hamel, Jürgen
Dick, Wolfgang R.
Zehe, Horst
Concepts
Optics
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Scientific communities; interprofessional relations
Explanation; hypotheses; theories
Spectroscopy
Correspondence and corresponding
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
Places
British Isles
Bavaria (Germany)
Germany
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