Pietro Blaserna and the Birth of the Institute of Physics in Rome [E-Book] : A Gentleman Scientist at Via Panisperna / by Miriam Focaccia.
This book draws upon a wealth of archival material to present the life and achievements of Pietro Blaserna, a "gentleman scientist" whose greatest legacy is considered to be the Institute of Physics on the Via Panisperna in Rome, of which he was the creator and first director. Both in this...
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| Personal Name(s): | Focaccia, Miriam, author |
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1st edition 2019. |
| Imprint: |
Cham :
Springer,
2019
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| Physical Description: |
XVII, 165 pages 12 illustrations, 6 illustrations in color (online resource) |
| Note: |
englisch |
| ISBN: |
9783030108250 |
| DOI: |
10.1007/978-3-030-10825-0 |
| Series Title: |
Springer Biographies
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- Foreword
- 1 A gentleman scientist
- 2 Education and studies
- 3 Rome, prelude
- 4 The Rome Physics Institute. An ideal fulfilled
- 5 Secretary, Vicepresident, President, Director
- 6 Senator
- 7 Final observations
- Acknowledgements
- On the way to steer aerostatic balloons
- The question of the free polar sea
- The harmonium with the mathematically precise scale
- Tuscany and the experimental method
- Illustrations
- Select bibliography
- Index of.