| 书目名称 | Weighing the World | | 副标题 | The Reverend John Mi | | 编辑 | Russell McCormmach | | 视频video | | | 概述 | The first full biography of John Michell.Today Michell‘s name is well known to physicists, astronomers and cosmologists for his anticipation of black holes.Contains unpublished letters | | 丛书名称 | Archimedes | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | The book about John Michell (1724-93) has two parts. The first and longest part is biographical, an account of Michell’s home setting (Nottinghamshire in England), the clerical world in which he grew up (Church of England), the university (Cambridge) where he studied and taught, and the scientific activities he made the center of his life. The second part is a complete edition of his known letters. Half of his letters have not been previously published; the other half are brought together in one place for the first time. The letters touch on all aspects of his career, and because they are in his words, they help bring the subject to life. His publications were not many, a slim book on magnets and magnetism, one paper on geology, two papers on astronomy, and a few brief papers on other topics, but they were enough to leave a mark on several sciences. He has been called a geologist, an astronomer, and a physicist, which he was, though we best remember him as a natural philosopher, as one who investigated physical nature broadly. His scientific contribution is not easy to summarize. Arguably he had the broadest competence of any British natural philosopher of the eighteenth century: e | | 出版日期 | Book 2012 | | 关键词 | Geological strata; Natural philosophy; black holes; stellar photometry; weighing the stars | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2022-0 | | isbn_softcover | 978-94-007-9361-3 | | isbn_ebook | 978-94-007-2022-0Series ISSN 1385-0180 Series E-ISSN 2215-0064 | | issn_series | 1385-0180 | | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012 |
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