03627nam a22005175i 4500 978-1-4020-4089-4 DE-He213 20260521092103.0 cr nn 008mamaa 100301s2006 ne | s |||| 0|eng d 9781402040894 99781402040894 10.1007/1-4020-4089-X doi 501 23 Hamerla, Ralph R. author. An American Scientist on the Research Frontier [electronic resource] : Edward Morley, Community, and Radical Ideas in Nineteenth-Century Science / by Ralph R. Hamerla. Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006. XIIII, 260 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, 1385-0180 ; 13 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. PHILOSOPHY (GENERAL). SCIENCE HISTORY. SCIENCE PHILOSOPHY. PHYSICS HISTORY. SCIENCE (GENERAL). HUMANITIES. PHILOSOPHY. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE. HISTORY OF SCIENCE. HISTORY OF PHYSICS. POPULAR SCIENCE, GENERAL. HUMANITIES, GENERAL. SpringerLink (Online service) Springer eBooks Printed edition: 9781402040887 Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, 1385-0180 ; 13 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4089-X Ver el texto completo en las instalaciones del CICY ZDB-2-SHU ddc ER 36650 36650 0 0 ddc 0 0 LE CICY CICY EL 2025-10-06 0 501 2025-10-06 08:45:04 2025-10-06 ER