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An American Scientist on the Research Frontier : Edward Morley, Community, and Radical Ideas in Nineteenth-Century Science / by Ralph R. Hamerla
(Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. ISSN:22150064 ; 13)

Publisher	(Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer)
Year	2006
Edition	1st ed. 2006.
Authors	*Hamerla, Ralph R author SpringerLink (Online service)

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Size	XIV, 262 p : online resource
Notes	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 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 HTTP:URL=https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4089-X
Subjects	LCSH:Science—Philosophy LCSH:Science—History LCSH:Physics—Philosophy LCSH:Engineering LCSH:Life sciences LCSH:Social sciences LCSH:Humanities FREE:Philosophy of Science FREE:History of Science FREE:Philosophical Foundations of Physics and Astronomy FREE:Technology and Engineering FREE:Life Sciences FREE:Humanities and Social Sciences
Classification	LCC:Q174-175.3 LCC:B67 DC23:501
ID	8000025148
ISBN	9781402040894