An American Scientist on the Research Frontier Edward Morley, Community, and Radical Ideas in Nineteenth-Century Science /
An American Scientist on the Research Frontier is the first scholarly study of the nineteenth-century American scientist Edward Williams Morley. In part, it is the long-overdue story of a man who lent his name to the Michelson and Morley Ether-Drift Experiment, and who conclusively established the a...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands,
2006.
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| Series: | Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology,
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| Online Access: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Table of Contents:
- The Morleys
- Edward Morley: Education, Civil War, and the Western Reserve
- Making a Place
- Kindred Spirits: The Ether Drift
- Intellectual Heritage, Prout’s Hypothesis
- Oxygen.
