Spectrum of Belief: Joseph Von Fraunhofer and the Craft of Precision Optics

by Myles W. Jackson

Book Overview

In the nineteenth century, scientific practice underwent a dramatic transformation from personal endeavor to business enterprise. In Spectrum of Belief , Myles Jackson explores this transformation through a sociocultural history of the rise of precision optics in Germany. He uses the career of the optician Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787-1826) to probe the relationship between science and society, and between artisans and experimental natural philosophers,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262100843
• ISBN13: 9780262100847
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher