TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jackson,Myles W.
TI  - Spectrum of belief: Joseph von Fraunhofer and the craft of precision optics
T2  - Transformations : studies in the history of science and technology
SN  - 0262100843
AV  - QC450.5 
U1  - 509.43/09/034 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.]
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Class of Fall 2014
KW  - Bosch Fellow in Public Policy
KW  - Fellow
KW  - Marcus Bierich Distinguished Visitor
KW  - Class of Spring 2023
KW  - Spectrum analysis
KW  - History
KW  - Fraunhofer, Joseph von
KW  - 1787-1826
KW  - Knowledge
KW  - Optics
KW  - Physicists
KW  - Germany
KW  - Biography
N1  - Literaturverz. S. [259] - 277
N2  - 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, during this important transition
UR  - http://www.gbv.de/dms/hbz/toc/ht013092766.pdf
ER  -