Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 420 pages)
,
digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9781139924108
Series Statement:
Cambridge library collection. Physical sciences
Content:
In 1876 the South Kensington Museum held a major international exhibition of scientific instruments and equipment, both historical and contemporary. Many of the items eventually formed the basis of collections now held at London's Science Museum. In May 1876, organisers arranged a series of conferences at which leading British and European scientists explained and demonstrated some of the items on display. The purpose was to emphasise the exhibition's goal not merely to preserve archaic treasures (such as Galileo's telescopes or Janssen's microscope) but to juxtapose them with current technology and so inspire future scientific developments. Volume 1 of the proceedings is devoted to physics and mechanics. The contributors include William Thomson (Baron Kelvin), John Tyndall, Francis Galton, James Clerk Maxwell, J. A. Froude and Thomas Stevenson, all of whom have other works reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection, which also includes the full catalogue of the exhibition itself
Note:
Originally published in London, for the lords of the Committee of Council on Education by Chapman and Hall in 1876
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108078139
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781108078139
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781139924108
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139924108
