Contains 110,000 wavelength entries from the 1939 edition with corrections or changes indicated by a line through the entry. Read the introduction to the 1969 edition for further explanation. Wavelengths in the range of 10,000-2,000 A are covered.
Contains 110,000 wavelength entries from the 1939 edition with corrections or changes indicated by a line through the entry. Read the introduction to the 1969 edition for further explanation. Wavelengths in the range of 10,000-2,000 A are covered.
Contains 110,000 wavelength entries from the 1939 edition with corrections or changes indicated by a line through the entry. Read the introduction to the 1969 edition for further explanation. Wavelengths in the range of 10,000-2,000 A are covered.
Contains 110,000 wavelength entries from the 1939 edition with corrections or changes indicated by a line through the entry. Read the introduction to the 1969 edition for further explanation. Wavelengths in the range of 10,000-2,000 A are covered.
Western philosophers have traditionally concentrated on theory as the means for expressing knowledge about a variety of phenomena. This absorbing book challenges this fundamental notion by showing how objects themselves, specifically scientific instruments, can express knowledge. As he considers numerous intriguing examples, Davis Baird gives us the tools to "read" the material products of science and technology and to understand their place in culture. Making a provocative and original challenge to our conception of knowledge itself, Thing Knowledge demands that we take a new look at theories of science and technology, knowledge, progress, and change. Baird considers a wide range of instruments, including Faraday's first electric motor, eighteenth-century mechanical models of the solar system, the cyclotron, various instruments developed by analytical chemists between 1930 and 1960, spectrometers, and more.
This book, first published in 1991, is an invaluable guide to biographies of scientists from a wide variety of scientific fields. The books selected for this highly descriptive bibliography help librarians shatter readers’ stereotypes of scientists as monomaniacal and uninteresting people by providing interesting and provocative titles to capture the interest of students and other readers. The biographies included in this very special bibliography were carefully selected for their humour and human insights to give future scientists encouragement, inspiration, and an understanding of the origins of particular scientific fields. These biographies are unique in that they explore the whole personality of the scientist, giving students a glimpse at the variety and drama of the lives beyond well-known contributions or Nobel prize accomplishments.
Crucial to research in molecular biology, medicine, geology, food science, materials science, and many other fields, analytical instrumentation is used by many scientists and engineers who are not chemists. Undergraduate Instrumental Analysis, Seventh Edition provides users of analytical instrumentation with an understanding of these instruments, c