Spectrum of belief
Subtitle: Joseph von Fraunhofer and the craft of precision optics
By: Myles W. Jackson.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: Fraunhofer, Joseph von, 1787-1826 -- Knowledge -- Optics.; Spectrum analysis -- History.; Physicists -- Germany -- Biography.
Description: "In the nineteenth century, scientific practice underwent a dramatic transformation from personal endeavor to business enterprise. In Spectrum of Belief, Myles Jackson uses the career of the optician Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787-1826) to probe the relationship between science and society, and that between artisans and experimental natural philosophers, during this transformation."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.