The command of light : Rowland's school of physics and the spectrum / George Kean Sweetnam.
Pubblicazione:
Philadelphia : American philosophical society, 2000.
Descrizione fisica:
XXV, 233 p. : ill., ritr. ; 26 cm
Serie:
Memoirs of the American philosophical society, 0065-9738 ; 238
Contiene:
Indice: Acknowledgments. Abbreviations. Preface. Introduction. 1. Engineering a new discipline 2. Analysis materialized 3. A school of light 4. The physics of heaven and Earth 5. The ghosts in the instrument 6. Elements of style 7. The proliferation of spectral lines 8. Astronomical light in the West. Bibliography. Index
