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British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 720

British Museum Catalogue of printed Books

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1895
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Bulletin
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 588

Bulletin

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1930
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Basics of Crystallography and Diffraction
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 450

The Basics of Crystallography and Diffraction

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-05-07
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  • Publisher: OUP Oxford

This book provides a clear introduction to topics which are essential to students in a wide range of scientific disciplines but which are otherwise only covered in specialised and mathematically detailed texts. It shows how crystal structures may be built up from simple ideas of atomic packing and co-ordination, it develops the concepts of crystal symmetry, point and space groups by way of two dimensional examples of patterns and tilings, it explains the concept of the reciprocal lattice in simple terms and shows its importance in an understanding of light, X-ray and electron diffraction. Practical examples of the applications of these techniques are described and also the importance of diffraction in the performance of optical instruments. The book is also of value to the general reader since it shows, by biographical and historical references, how the subject has developed and thereby indicates some of the excitement of scientific discovery.

The Making of Measure and the Promise of Sameness
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 345

The Making of Measure and the Promise of Sameness

An interdisciplinary history of standardized measurements. Measurement is all around us—from the circumference of a pizza to the square footage of an apartment, from the length of a newborn baby to the number of miles between neighboring towns. Whether inches or miles, centimeters or kilometers, measures of distance stand at the very foundation of everything we do, so much so that we take them for granted. Yet, this has not always been the case. This book reaches back to medieval Italy to speak of a time when measurements were displayed in the open, showing how such a deceptively simple innovation triggered a chain of cultural transformations whose consequences are visible today on a globa...

Studies on Eighteenth-Century Geology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 259

Studies on Eighteenth-Century Geology

In a scholarly career spanning five decades, Rhoda Rappaport published perceptive analyses of science in the culture of early Modern Europe, France in particular, with strong emphasis on geology's early development. Of the sixteen papers in this volume, most focus on aspects of geology's cultivation during the 'long' 18th century, from the times of Hooke, Leibniz, and Fontenelle to those of Lavoisier, Werner, and Cuvier. Among the topics most closely treated here are the French mineralogical mapping project initiated by Guettard; contemporary efforts to interpret the earth historically (such as through Noah's Flood); and difficulties presented by the vocabulary often used in traditional hist...

Origins of the Science of Crystals
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 206

Origins of the Science of Crystals

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The Vision of Rome in Late Renaissance France
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 490

The Vision of Rome in Late Renaissance France

"The French vision of Rome was initially determined by travel journals, guide books and a rapidly developing trade in antiquities. Against this background, Margaret McGowan examines work by writers such as Du Bellay, Grevin, Montaigne and Garnier, and by architects and artists such as Philibert de L'Orme and Jean Cousin, showing how they drew upon classical ruins and reconstructions not only to re-enact past meanings and achievements but also, more dynamically, to interpret the present. She explains how Renaissance Rome, enhanced by the presence of so many signs of ancient grandeur, provided a fertile source of artistic creativity. Study of the fragments of the past tempted writers to an imaginative reconstruction of whole forms, while the new structures they created in France revealed the artistic potency of the incomplete and the fragmentary.

Cassell's Biographical Dictionary, etc. [With plates. Edited by T. T. Shore.]
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1400

Cassell's Biographical Dictionary, etc. [With plates. Edited by T. T. Shore.]

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1867
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of Biography and Mythology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1224

Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of Biography and Mythology

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1896
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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