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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Usselman, Melvyn C. (1944?-2015)
Titre(s) : Pure intelligence [Texte imprimé] : the life of William Hyde Wollaston / Melvyn C. Usselman
Publication : Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago press, copyright 2015
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XV-413 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Collection : Synthesis
Lien à la collection : Synthesis (Chicago)
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 391-405. Index
William Hyde Wollaston made an astonishing number of discoveries in an astonishingly
varied number of fields: platinum metallurgy, the existence of ultraviolet radiation,
the chemical elements palladium and rhodium, the amino acid cystine, and the physiology
of binocular vision, among others. Along with his colleagues Humphry Davy and Thomas
Young, he was widely recognized during his life as one of Britain's leading scientific
practitioners in the first part of the nineteenth century, and the deaths of all three
within a six-month span, between 1828 and 1829, were seen by many as the end of a
glorious period of British scientific supremacy. Unlike Davy and Young, however, Wollaston
was not the subject of a contemporary biography, and his many impressive achievements
have fallen into obscurity as a result. Pure Intelligence is the first book-length
study of Wollaston, his science, and the environment in which he thrived. Drawing
on previously-unstudied laboratory records as well as historical reconstructions of
chemical experiments and discoveries, and written in a highly accessible style, Pure
Intelligence will help to reinstate Wollaston in the history of science, and the pantheon
of its great innovators
Sujet(s) : Wollaston, William Hyde (1766-1828)
Indice(s) Dewey :
509.2 (23e éd.) = Sciences naturelles et mathématiques - Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780226245737. - ISBN 022624573X (rel.). - ISBN 9780226245874 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47296507w
Notice n° :
FRBNF47296507
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : 1.The Making of a Physician: 1766 ; 1795 ; Wollaston's Early Years ; The Wollaston
Lineage ; The Route to a Medical Degree ; The Eccentric Smithson Tennant ; Becoming
a Doctor ; Life as a Country Physician ; 2.Early Medical and Scientific Interests:
1792 ; 1800 ; Early Scientific Interests ; Studies on Human Calculi ; Activities
with the Royal College of Physicians ; Familial and Political Stresses ; A Chemical
Partnership ; New Scientific Interests ; Studies on the Refraction of Light ; The
End of Doctoring ; 3.Early Years as a Natural Philosopher: 1800 ; 1802 ; Research
on Electricity ; Move to Buckingham Street ; Royal Society Involvement ; Lifelong
Colleagues: Humphry Davy and Thomas Young ; The Primacy of Observation ; Pioneering
Studies on the Refraction and Dispersion of Light ; Double Refraction in Iceland
Spar ; Optical Instruments for Naval Use ; 4.Malleable Platinum: 1800 ; 1801 ;
Early Studies of Spanish Platina ; Wollaston's Platinum Purification Process ; The
Need for Secrecy ; The Production of Malleable Platinum ; 5.Palladium and Rhodium:
1801 ; 1825 ; The Batch Process for Commercial Platinum ; The Discovery of Palladium
; The Palladium Controversy ; The Discovery of Rhodium ; Wollaston Reveals his Secret
; Commercial Applications of Palladium and Rhodium ; 6.Optical Devices and Social
Networks: 1804 ; 1809 ; Periscopic Spectacles ; Periscopic Camera Obscura and Microscope
; Opposition to Meniscus Lenses ; The Camera Lucida: A New Drawing Instrument ;
Use of the Camera Lucida ; Royal Society Activities ; The Forces of Moving Bodies
; The Lure of Cambridge ; New Social and Scientific Networks ; 7.Commercial Platinum:
1805 ; 1820 ; The First Sales of Platinum ; Firearm Touchholes ; Sulfuric Acid
Boilers ; Total Platinum Purchases and Sales ; Improvements to Platinum Refining
; Financial Security ; 8.Organic Chemicals and Multiple Combining Proportions: 1802
; 1815 ; Chemicals from Wine Dregs ; Production and Sale of Organic Chemicals ;
The Continuing Partnership with Smithson Tennant ; Multiple Combining Proportions
in the Salts of Organic Acids ; Thomas Thomson, Dalton, and Atomic Theory ; Wollaston's
Integral Combining Proportions ; The Impact of Wollaston's Paper on Multiple Proportions
; 9.Crystals and Atoms: 1803 ; 1818 ; Yearly Excursions ; The Contact Goniometer
; The Reflective Goniometer ; Crystals and Elementary Particles ; An Opportunity
Missed ; 10.More Practical and Conceptual Innovation: 1809 ; 1822 ; The Sounds
of Muscular Contraction ; Microanalysis ; The Cryophorus and Fine Platinum Wires
; The Logarithmic Scale of Chemical Equivalents ; Atoms or Equivalents ; The Upper
Limit of the Atmosphere ; 11.Changing Priorities: 1809 ; 1815 ; Electrochemical
Secretions and Blood Sugar ; The Attractions of Gravity, France, and English Institutions
; The Visit of Berzelius ; A Man at the Peak of his Powers ; The Resurrection of
Europe ; Deaths of a Business Partner and a Father ; A More Relaxed Life ; 12.Service
to Government and the Royal Society: 1803 ; 1820 ; Excise Taxes and Sikes's Hydrometer
; Wollaston as Paid Consultant ; Service on Government Committees ; The Board of
Longitude ; The Presidency of the Royal Society ; 13.A Diversity of Interests: 1815
; 1824 ; Friendship with Julia Hankey ; More Leisure Time ; Continuing Scientific
Work and the End of the Platinum Business ; Electromagnetic Rotation and the Faraday
Incident ; More Novel Observations ; Pioneering Physiological Research ; Three
Remarkable Women ; 14.The Last Years: 1824 ; 1828 ; Family, Friends, and Fishing
; The End of Scientific Work ; The Onset of Illness ; Another Chance at the Presidency
of the Royal Society ; The Last Year ; Preparations for Death ; 15.Post Mortem
and Legacy: 1828 ; Present ; Post Mortem ; The Legacy of William Hyde Wollaston.
