An American scientist on the research frontier : Edward Morley, community, and radical ideas in nineteenth-century science

An American scientist on the research frontier : Edward Morley, community, and radical ideas in nineteenth-century science

Author
Ralph R. Hamerla
Publication Year
2006
Publisher
Springer
Language
English
Document Type
Book
Faculty / Subject Heading
Social Science

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.

Keywords: Humanities, Social Science and Law / Education / History of science / Science