Myles W. Jackson is the Albers-Schönberg Professor in the History of Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is the author of
The Genealogy of a Gene: Patents, HIV/AIDS, and Race;
Harmonious Triads: Physicists, Musicians, and Instrument Makers in Nineteenth-Century Germany; and
Spectrum of Belief: Joseph von Fraunhofer and the Craft of Precision Optics.
5 Ebooks by Myles W. Jackson
Myles W. Jackson: Harmonious Triads
Historically, music was long classified as both art and science. Aspects of music-from the mathematics of tuning to the music of the celestial spheres-were primarily studied as science until the seve …
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Myles W. Jackson: Spectrum of Belief
In the nineteenth century, scientific practice underwent a dramatic transformation from personal endeavor to business enterprise. In Spectrum of Belief, Myles Jackson explores this transformation thr …
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€102.42
Myles W. Jackson: Genealogy of a Gene
The history of the CCR5 gene as a lens through which to view such issues as intellectual property, Big Pharma, personalized medicine, and race and genomics.In The Genealogy of a Gene, Myles Jackson u …
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€102.93
Myles W. Jackson: Broadcasting Fidelity
A landmark history of early radio in Germany and the quest for broadcast fidelity When we turn on a radio or stream a playlist, we can usually recognize the instrument we hear, whether it’s a cello, …
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€47.99
Alexandra Hui & Myles W. Jackson: Osiris, Volume 28
The understanding of sound underwent profound changes with the advent of laboratory science in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. New techniques of sound visualization and detection, the use of …
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