03479nam a22004695i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020001800100020001900118024003100137082001200168100003100180245017500211264004600386300003600432336002600468337002600494338003600520347002400556490010200580505019000682520156800872650002602440650002202466650002502488650002202513650002302535650001602558650001602574650002702590650002402617650002402641650003002665650002502695710003402720773002002754776003602774830010202810856009702912978-1-4020-4089-4DE-He21320260521092103.0cr nn 008mamaa100301s2006    ne |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a9781402040894  a997814020408947 a10.1007/1-4020-4089-X2doi04a5012231 aHamerla, Ralph R.eauthor.13aAn American Scientist on the Research Frontierh[electronic resource] :bEdward Morley, Community, and Radical Ideas in Nineteenth-Century Science /cby Ralph R. Hamerla. 1aDordrecht :bSpringer Netherlands,c2006.  aXIIII, 260 p.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda1 aArchimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology,x1385-0180 ;v130 aThe Morleys -- Edward Morley: Education, Civil War, and the Western Reserve -- Making a Place -- Kindred Spirits: The Ether Drift -- Intellectual Heritage, Prout's Hypothesis -- Oxygen.  aAn 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. 0aPHILOSOPHY (GENERAL). 0aSCIENCExHISTORY. 0aSCIENCExPHILOSOPHY. 0aPHYSICSxHISTORY. 0aSCIENCE (GENERAL). 0aHUMANITIES.14aPHILOSOPHY.24aPHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE.24aHISTORY OF SCIENCE.24aHISTORY OF PHYSICS.24aPOPULAR SCIENCE, GENERAL.24aHUMANITIES, GENERAL.2 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer eBooks08iPrinted edition:z9781402040887 0aArchimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology,x1385-0180 ;v1340uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4089-XzVer el texto completo en las instalaciones del CICY