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7 produkter
Visions of Empire
Voyages, Botany, and Representations of Nature
Av David Philip Miller, Peter Hanns Reill
Häftad, 2011
838 kr
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This 1996 collection examines the discovery of plants and peoples of the Pacific in the eighteenth century by European scientists and travellers. The contributors conceptualise the process of discovery, which involved active cultural solutions to problems of representation, rather than mere …
Discovering Water
James Watt, Henry Cavendish and the Nineteenth-Century 'Water Controversy'
Inbunden, 2004
2513 kr
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The 'water controversy' concerns one of the central discoveries of modern science, that water is not an element but rather a compound. The allocation of priority in this discovery was contentious in the 1780s and has occupied a number of 20th century historians. The matter is tied up with the …
Life and Legend of James Watt
Collaboration, Natural Philosophy, and the Improvement of the Steam Engine
Häftad, 2019
552 kr
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The Life and Legend of James Watt offers a deeper understanding of the work and character of the great eighteenth-century engineer. Stripping away layers of legend built over generations, David Philip Miller finds behind the heroic engineer a conflicted man often diffident about his achievements …
Discovering Water
James Watt, Henry Cavendish and the Nineteenth-Century 'Water Controversy'
Häftad, 2017
894 kr
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The 'water controversy' concerns one of the central discoveries of modern science, that water is not an element but rather a compound. The allocation of priority in this discovery was contentious in the 1780s and has occupied a number of 20th century historians. The matter is tied up with the …
Discovering Water
James Watt, Henry Cavendish and the Nineteenth-Century ''Water Controversy''
E-bok, 2017
1052 kr
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The ''water controversy'' concerns one of the central discoveries of modern science, that water is not an element but rather a compound. The allocation of priority in this discovery was contentious in the 1780s and has occupied a number of 20th century historians. The matter is tied up with the …
Discovering Water
James Watt, Henry Cavendish and the Nineteenth-Century ''Water Controversy''
E-bok, 2017
1052 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The ''water controversy'' concerns one of the central discoveries of modern science, that water is not an element but rather a compound. The allocation of priority in this discovery was contentious in the 1780s and has occupied a number of 20th century historians. The matter is tied up with the …
James Watt, Chemist
Understanding the Origins of the Steam Age
Häftad, 2018
686 kr
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In the Victorian era, James Watt became an iconic engineer, but in his own time he was also an influential chemist. Miller examines Watt’s illustrious engineering career in light of his parallel interest in chemistry, arguing that Watt’s conception of steam engineering relied upon chemical …
