Anita Mcconnell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3753683 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anita Mcconnell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anita |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcconnell |
| SIGNATURE | MCCONNELL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Instruments and Instrument-Makers, 1700–1850
This article focuses on instruments and instrument-makers during the period 1700–1850. Scientific instruments in the 150 years between 1700 and 1850 enjoyed rapid advances in design and technology that the period can usefully be divided at about 1800, though the date varied with the progress or otherwise in the lands concerned. Throughout this period the leading craftsmen were becoming better-educated, many having a good grasp of mathematics. Thi…
Perfect Mechanics
Of seas and ships and scientists
Joining the observatories of Paris and Greenwich
In the closing years of the eighteenth century, France and Britain enjoyed a period of external peace that their scientific communities put to good use by finding an objective common to the leading academic institutions: the Académie royale des sciences in France, and the Royal Society in England. This was not an entirely new concept; the novelty was that the objective would be brought about by teams from each side working outside their own borde…
Robert Mallet and the ‘Great Neapolitan earthquake’ of 1857
Robert Mallet (1810–81), an Irish civil engineer who had been investigating the passage of artificial seismic waves, sought Royal Society support to test his theories in the field, after a devastating earthquake in Basilicata, a province in the Kingdom of Naples. The earthquake struck on 16 December 1857; in January 1858 Mallet began a month–long trek across this mountainous region, gathering a wealth of data and description. His report, illustra…
L. F. Marsigli’s visit to London in 1721, and his report on the Royal Society
1. Marsigli’s early relations with the Royal Society In 1690 Edmond Halley received a letter from St-George Ashe (F.R.S. 1685), secretary to Lord Paget (1637-1713) in the British embassy at Vienna, representing that city as steeped in ignorance, lacking persons competent in mathematics and unable to supply instruments for making scientific observations. ‘I have yet enquired to no purpose for some mathematical officer in the Imperial Army, in orde…
L. F. Marsigli’s voyage to London and Holland, 1721-1722
The Marsigli Archives in Bologna University Library consist of 146 packages or volumes of material: drafts, texts, illustrations, maps—principally in Latin, Italian and French, but with Hungarian, Balkan, Turkish and other oriental inclusions—and his correspondence is scattered across Europe (1)*. It is a testimony to the energy and perseverance of a man who, spending the best years of his life as a soldier, was an expert on military fortificatio…
Offa's Dyke Reviewed
No Sea too Deep
are not in fact exploited operationally due to the lack of what the Committee term an 'embedding' methodology which will enable the technolpgicaJ results to be accepted and incorporated into operating systems. The basic problems facing the maritime industry are summarized as a need to disseminate information, the proper co-ordination of research, rather than the lack of it and the will to apply existing knowledge. Perhaps the most important point…
Geomagnetic Instruments before 1900
James Six F. R. S.- Two hundred years of the Six's self-registering thermometer
A design for a thermometer constructed to record the highest or lowest temperature during the observer’s absence was mentioned by Jean Bernoulli in a letter to Leibniz dated 1698. Not surprisingly, Bernoulli never undertook the construction of such a thermometer, for the problems involved were formidable. Various designs were proposed subsequently: in particular Lord Charles Cavendish presented the Royal Society with plans for separate maximum an…
Historical methods of temperature measurement in Arctic and Antarctic waters
Investigations into conditions in Arctic and Antarctic seas were carried out during the late 18th and 19th centuries by private as well as government-sponsored expeditions. While the French occupied themselves with exploration mainly within tropical and temperate waters, Britishinterests lay in the Arctic regions, where a possible route through to the Pacific might be found, and as the location for whaling and sealing operations. It was to the ad…
Offa's Dyke Reviewed
No Sea too Deep
are not in fact exploited operationally due to the lack of what the Committee term an 'embedding' methodology which will enable the technolpgicaJ results to be accepted and incorporated into operating systems. The basic problems facing the maritime industry are summarized as a need to disseminate information, the proper co-ordination of research, rather than the lack of it and the will to apply existing knowledge. Perhaps the most important point…
Historical methods of temperature measurement in Arctic and Antarctic waters
Investigations into conditions in Arctic and Antarctic seas were carried out during the late 18th and 19th centuries by private as well as government-sponsored expeditions. While the French occupied themselves with exploration mainly within tropical and temperate waters, Britishinterests lay in the Arctic regions, where a possible route through to the Pacific might be found, and as the location for whaling and sealing operations. It was to the ad…
James Six F. R. S.- Two hundred years of the Six's self-registering thermometer
A design for a thermometer constructed to record the highest or lowest temperature during the observer’s absence was mentioned by Jean Bernoulli in a letter to Leibniz dated 1698. Not surprisingly, Bernoulli never undertook the construction of such a thermometer, for the problems involved were formidable. Various designs were proposed subsequently: in particular Lord Charles Cavendish presented the Royal Society with plans for separate maximum an…
No Sea too Deep
are not in fact exploited operationally due to the lack of what the Committee term an 'embedding' methodology which will enable the technolpgicaJ results to be accepted and incorporated into operating systems. The basic problems facing the maritime industry are summarized as a need to disseminate information, the proper co-ordination of research, rather than the lack of it and the will to apply existing knowledge. Perhaps the most important point…
Geomagnetic Instruments before 1900
Offa's Dyke Reviewed
L. F. Marsigli’s voyage to London and Holland, 1721-1722
The Marsigli Archives in Bologna University Library consist of 146 packages or volumes of material: drafts, texts, illustrations, maps—principally in Latin, Italian and French, but with Hungarian, Balkan, Turkish and other oriental inclusions—and his correspondence is scattered across Europe (1)*. It is a testimony to the energy and perseverance of a man who, spending the best years of his life as a soldier, was an expert on military fortificatio…
L. F. Marsigli’s visit to London in 1721, and his report on the Royal Society
1. Marsigli’s early relations with the Royal Society In 1690 Edmond Halley received a letter from St-George Ashe (F.R.S. 1685), secretary to Lord Paget (1637-1713) in the British embassy at Vienna, representing that city as steeped in ignorance, lacking persons competent in mathematics and unable to supply instruments for making scientific observations. ‘I have yet enquired to no purpose for some mathematical officer in the Imperial Army, in orde…
Robert Mallet and the ‘Great Neapolitan earthquake’ of 1857
Robert Mallet (1810–81), an Irish civil engineer who had been investigating the passage of artificial seismic waves, sought Royal Society support to test his theories in the field, after a devastating earthquake in Basilicata, a province in the Kingdom of Naples. The earthquake struck on 16 December 1857; in January 1858 Mallet began a month–long trek across this mountainous region, gathering a wealth of data and description. His report, illustra…
Joining the observatories of Paris and Greenwich
In the closing years of the eighteenth century, France and Britain enjoyed a period of external peace that their scientific communities put to good use by finding an objective common to the leading academic institutions: the Académie royale des sciences in France, and the Royal Society in England. This was not an entirely new concept; the novelty was that the objective would be brought about by teams from each side working outside their own borde…
Of seas and ships and scientists
Perfect Mechanics
Instruments and Instrument-Makers, 1700–1850
This article focuses on instruments and instrument-makers during the period 1700–1850. Scientific instruments in the 150 years between 1700 and 1850 enjoyed rapid advances in design and technology that the period can usefully be divided at about 1800, though the date varied with the progress or otherwise in the lands concerned. Throughout this period the leading craftsmen were becoming better-educated, many having a good grasp of mathematics. Thi…
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