An American Scientist on the Research Frontier (Record no. 246756)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781402040894
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Standard number or code 10.1007/1-4020-4089-X
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Holding library Alfaisal Main Library
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Classification number B67
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Subject category code PDA
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Subject category code SCI075000
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082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 501
Edition number 23
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Hamerla, Ralph R.
Relator term author.
245 13 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title An American Scientist on the Research Frontier
Medium [electronic resource] :
Remainder of title Edward Morley, Community, and Radical Ideas in Nineteenth-Century Science /
Statement of responsibility, etc by Ralph R. Hamerla.
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE STATEMENTS
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture Dordrecht :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Springer Netherlands,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture 2006.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent XIV, 262 p.
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Series statement Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology,
International Standard Serial Number 1385-0180 ;
Volume number/sequential designation 13
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note 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.
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Summary, etc 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 atomic weight of oxygen. It is also the untold story of science in provincial America: what Hamerla presents as science on the "American research frontier." Hamerla carefully and usefully directs our attention away from more familiar sites of scientific activity during the nineteenth century, such as Harvard, Yale and Johns Hopkins. In so doing, he expands and reframes our understanding of how—and where—important scientific inquiry occurred during these years: not only in the Northeastern centers of elite academia, but also in the vastly different cultural contexts of Hudson and Cleveland, Ohio. This important examination of Morley’s struggle for personal and professional legitimacy extends and transforms our understanding of science during a foundational period, and leads to a number of unique conclusions that are vital to the literature and historiography of science. By revealing important aspects of the scientific culture of the American heartland, An American Scientist on the Research Frontier deepens our understanding of an individual scientist and of American science more broadly. In so doing, Hamerla changes the way we approach and understand the creation of scientific knowledge, scientific communities, and the history of science itself.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Philosophy.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element History.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Philosophy and science.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Philosophy.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Philosophy of Science.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element History of Science.
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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 Popular Science, general.
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Genre/form data or focus term Electronic books.
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Title Springer eBooks
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Display text Printed edition:
International Standard Book Number 9781402040887
830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE
Uniform title Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology,
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Volume number/sequential designation 13
856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="http://ezproxy.alfaisal.edu/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4089-X">http://ezproxy.alfaisal.edu/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4089-X</a>
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