Title: Spectrum of belief
First published: 2000
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.
Subjects: Knowledge, Spectrum analysis, History, Optics, Biography, Physicists, Chemistry, history, Physics
Places: Germany
People: Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787-1826)
LC classification: QC450.5 .J33 2000