An American Scientist on the Research Frontier: Edward Morley, Community, and Radical Ideas in Nineteenth-Century ScienceSpringer Science & Business Media, 2006 M01 27 - 260 páginas 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. |
Contenido
The Morleys | 9 |
12 Sardis Morley | 13 |
13 Anna Treat Morley | 22 |
14 New York City | 27 |
15 Frank Morley | 33 |
16 Lizzie Morley | 37 |
17 Conclusion | 43 |
Edward Morley Education Civil War and the Western Reserve | 47 |
42 Michelson | 124 |
43 Ether and Light | 125 |
44 Light | 127 |
45 Michelson after Graduation | 130 |
46 Michelson in Europe | 135 |
47 Michelson at Case | 139 |
48 The Michelson and Morley Experiment | 144 |
49 Conclusion | 148 |
22 Education | 50 |
23 Williams and Andover | 51 |
24 Civil War | 54 |
25 United States Sanitary Commission | 55 |
26 Ohio and the Western Reserve | 65 |
27 David Hudson | 66 |
28 Charles Backus Storrs and Activism at WRC | 69 |
29 George Edmond Pierce | 73 |
210 Theology and Debt | 74 |
211 Henry Lawrence Hitchcock | 78 |
212 The Hudson Laboratory | 80 |
213 Carrol Cutler | 85 |
214 The Cleveland Laboratory | 89 |
215 Conclusio | 91 |
Making a Place | 93 |
32 Time | 96 |
33 Telegraphy | 103 |
34 Forensics | 109 |
35 Conclusion | 120 |
Kindred Spirits The Ether Drift | 123 |
Intellectual Heritage Prouts Hypothesis | 153 |
52 Prouts Hypothesis Era of Debate | 156 |
53 Post Karlsruhe | 166 |
54 Theodore Richards | 175 |
Oxygen | 181 |
62 The Constants | 184 |
63 Hydrogen | 190 |
64 Oxygen | 199 |
65 The Density of Oxygen and Hydrogen Series 1 | 202 |
66 The Density of Oxygen Series 2 | 206 |
67 The Density of Oxygen Series 3 and Hydrogen Series 2 | 213 |
68 The Density of Hydrogen Series 5 | 215 |
Cooke and Richards Keiser Scott | 217 |
610 Synthesis of Water from Weighed Quantities of Hydrogen and Oxygen | 222 |
611 Morley | 228 |
Epilogue | 231 |
References | 239 |
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