Maxwell, Sutton, and the Birth of Color Photography
Cat, Jordi (Harvard University, Massachusetts)
€ 66.46
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Maxwell, Sutton, and the Birth of Color Photography
Hardback. This focused and incisive study reassesses the historic collaboration between James Clerk Maxwell and Thomas Sutton. It reveals that Maxwell and Sutton were closer to true partners than has commonly been assumed, and shows how their experiments illuminate the role of technology, representation, and participation in Maxwell's natural philosophy. Num Pages: 179 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; AJR; HBTB; TBY. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 225 x 173 x 18. Weight in Grams: 372.
This focused and incisive study reassesses the historic collaboration between James Clerk Maxwell and Thomas Sutton. It reveals that Maxwell and Sutton were closer to true partners than has commonly been assumed, and shows how their experiments illuminate the role of technology, representation, and participation in Maxwell's natural philosophy.
This focused and incisive study reassesses the historic collaboration between James Clerk Maxwell and Thomas Sutton. It reveals that Maxwell and Sutton were closer to true partners than has commonly been assumed, and shows how their experiments illuminate the role of technology, representation, and participation in Maxwell's natural philosophy.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
179
Condition
New
Number of Pages
165
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137338303
SKU
V9781137338303
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Cat, Jordi (Harvard University, Massachusetts)
Jordi Cat is Associate Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University, USA. He is the co-author of Otto Neurath: Philosophy Between Science and Politics (1996), and the author of the forthcoming monographs Master and Designer of Fields: James Clerk Maxwell and Constructive, Connective, Conventionalist, and Concrete Natural Philosophy and Physics Beyond Laws and Theories: ... Read more
Reviews for Maxwell, Sutton, and the Birth of Color Photography
"...this 'Palgrave Pivot' volume offers a fascinating look at a little-known subject..." - CHOICE "This book is a fascinating and important contribution to the vast literature on Maxwell, elegantly situating him in the context of Victorian visual cultures. It pursues issues such as the professionalization of photography, its role and status in the 1860s, the types of ... Read more