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2003 Paul Bunge Prize of the Hans R. Jenemann Foundation for the History of Scientific InstrumentsJudging the brightness and color of light has long been contentious. Alternately described as impossible and routine, it was beset by problems both technical and social. How trustworthy could such measurements be? Was the best standard of inten
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- 1. INTRODUCTION: MAKING LIGHT COUNT
- 2. LIGHT AS A LAW-ABIDING QUANTITY
- 3. SEEING THINGS
- 4. CAREERS IN THE SHADOWS
- 5. LABORATORIES AND LEGISLATION
- 6. TECHNOLOGY IN TRANSITION
- 7. DISPUTING LIGHT AND COLOUR
- 8. MARKETING PHOTOMETRY
- 9. MILITARIZING RADIOMETRY
- 10. AN āUNDISCIPLINED SCIENCEā
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Back Cover