Weighing the World (Record no. 104365)
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| control field | 978-94-007-2022-0 |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9789400720220 |
| -- | 978-94-007-2022-0 |
| 024 7# - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER | |
| Standard number or code | 10.1007/978-94-007-2022-0 |
| Source of number or code | doi |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | D1-DX301 |
| 072 #7 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | PDX |
| Source | bicssc |
| 072 #7 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | SCI034000 |
| Source | bisacsh |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 509 |
| Edition number | 23 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | McCormmach, Russell. |
| Relator term | author. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Weighing the World |
| Medium | [electronic resource] : |
| Remainder of title | The Reverend John Michell of Thornhill / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | by Russell McCormmach. |
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| -- | Dordrecht : |
| -- | Springer Netherlands, |
| -- | 2012. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | XVII, 488p. 52 illus. |
| Other physical details | online resource. |
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| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, |
| International Standard Serial Number | 1385-0180 ; |
| Volume number/sequential designation | 28 |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | List of Illustrations.- Preface and Acknowledgments.- Michell’s Life and Work.- Home.- Cambridge -- Early Researches.- Transitions.-Thornhill -- Late Researches.- Michell’s Letters Editorial Note -- List of Letter -- Letters -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | The book about John Michell (1724-93) has two parts. The first and longest part is biographical, an account of Michell’s home setting (Nottinghamshire in England), the clerical world in which he grew up (Church of England), the university (Cambridge) where he studied and taught, and the scientific activities he made the center of his life. The second part is a complete edition of his known letters. Half of his letters have not been previously published; the other half are brought together in one place for the first time. The letters touch on all aspects of his career, and because they are in his words, they help bring the subject to life. His publications were not many, a slim book on magnets and magnetism, one paper on geology, two papers on astronomy, and a few brief papers on other topics, but they were enough to leave a mark on several sciences. He has been called a geologist, an astronomer, and a physicist, which he was, though we best remember him as a natural philosopher, as one who investigated physical nature broadly. His scientific contribution is not easy to summarize. Arguably he had the broadest competence of any British natural philosopher of the eighteenth century: equally skilled in experiment and observation, mathematical theory, and instruments, his field of inquiry was the universe. From the structure of the heavens through the structure of the Earth to the forces of the elementary particles of matter, he carried out original and far-reaching researches on the workings of nature. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Science |
| General subdivision | History. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Philosophy (General). |
| 650 14 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Science, general. |
| 650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | History of Science. |
| 650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics. |
| 650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | History of Philosophy. |
| 710 2# - ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | SpringerLink (Online service) |
| 773 0# - HOST ITEM ENTRY | |
| Title | Springer eBooks |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY | |
| Display text | Printed edition: |
| International Standard Book Number | 9789400720213 |
| 830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE | |
| Uniform title | Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, |
| -- | 1385-0180 ; |
| Volume number/sequential designation | 28 |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2022-0 |
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