Lines of Light / Edition 1

by J.C.D. Brand

Overview

This work provides a perspective on the creation of a scientific discipline. The reader is led to meet the actual people who have contributed to this field and know their trials as well as breakthroughs. From 1800 to 1930, Brand preserves the thread of scientific thought and activity through six generations of working scientists.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138455788
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/02/2017
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.62(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

1: Science and Spectra in the Nineteenth Century; 2: Visible and Invisible Radiation, 1800-1825; 3: Joseph Fraunhofer, and the Measurement of Wavelength, 1820-1925; 4: Emission and Absorption, ca. 1800-1870; 5: Penetration of the Infrared, 1830-1910; 6: The Equilibrium Between Matter and Radiation, 1800-1925; 7: Atomic Spectral Series, ca. 1860-1920; 8: Molecular Spectra of Gases, Principally 1860-1890; 9: Empirical Generalizations and Early Quantum Theory, 1885-1925; 10: Structure, Force Field, and Dissociation, ca. 1914-1935; 11: The Convergence of Theory and Experiment, 1920-1930; 12: Symmetry, Spin, and Statistics, 1926-1930