Spectrum of Belief
Publisher: University of Chicago Press; MIT Press
Published: December 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780226389332
Subjects: History; Sociology, Social Studies; Science; Sociology
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."--BOOK JACKET.