24 research outputs found
Instrument and Reality: The Case of Terrestrial Magnetism and the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis)
Full text linkIn recent years there has been an increasing focus on the role of instruments in the study of nature, both by historians and by philosophers of science, and even by a few art historians who are interested by the images produced by these devices.</jats:p
Instrument and Reality: The Case of Terrestrial Magnetism and the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis)
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Sonar, Wireless Telegraphy and the Royal Navy: Scientific Development in a Military Context, 1890–1939
Full text linkDan Ch. Christensen (ed.), European Historiography of Technology from the TISC-Conference in Roskilde. Odense University Studies in History and Social Sciences, 156. Odense, Denmark: Odense University Press, 1993. Pp. 242. ISBN 87-7492-910-0. DKK 275.00, $37.00.
No full textSonar Research and Naval Warfare 1914-1954: A Case Study of a Twentieth-Century Establishment Science
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Michael Hunter. <i>The Image of Restoration Science: The Frontispiece to Thomas Sprat’s History of the Royal Society (1667)</i>. With a contribution by James Bennett. xvi + 150 pp., illus., index. New York: Routledge, 2017. £120 (cloth). ISBN 9781472478726.
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