W A Smeaton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3768803 |
|---|---|
| NAME | W A Smeaton |
| GIVEN NAMES | W A |
| FAMILY NAME | Smeaton |
| SIGNATURE | SMEATON W A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1956 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Richard Broke Freeman
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Niels Hugh de Vaudrey Heathcote
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William Persehouse Delisle Wightman
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Newton on the Continent . Henry Guerlac
Macquer's Dictionnaire de Chymie
The eighteenth century saw the publication of many scientific and technical dictionaries, particularly in France, one of the most important being P. J. Macquer's Dictionnaire de chymie. Both the original text of 1766 and the revised and enlarged version of 1778 were translated into several languages, sometimes with authoritative notes and additions by the translators. No mere list of definitions, Macquer's work contained long articles that made i…
Obituary
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Angus Armitage, 19 July 1902–8 February 1976
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Library and Archive Resources in the History of Science at University College London
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Some comments on James Watt’s published account of his work on steam and steam engines
In his study of the influence of James Watt’s expansive principle on Carnot JL and Clément, Dr Robert Fox draws attention to Watt’s claim, in a letter to Boulton in 1781, that the principle was conceived in 1767, and he points out that this conflicts with a statement in John Robison’s System of Natural Philosophy (1822) that the principle first occurred to Watt in 1769. He considers this to be a categorical statement by Robison, but the paragraph…
New Light on Lavoisier
Two unrecorded publications of the régie des poudres et salpˆetres probably written by Lavoisier
Obituary
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New Light on Lavoisier
Two unrecorded publications of the régie des poudres et salpˆetres probably written by Lavoisier
Two unrecorded publications of the régie des poudres et salpˆetres probably written by Lavoisier
New Light on Lavoisier
Some comments on James Watt’s published account of his work on steam and steam engines
In his study of the influence of James Watt’s expansive principle on Carnot JL and Clément, Dr Robert Fox draws attention to Watt’s claim, in a letter to Boulton in 1781, that the principle was conceived in 1767, and he points out that this conflicts with a statement in John Robison’s System of Natural Philosophy (1822) that the principle first occurred to Watt in 1769. He considers this to be a categorical statement by Robison, but the paragraph…
Angus Armitage, 19 July 1902–8 February 1976
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Library and Archive Resources in the History of Science at University College London
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Obituary
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Macquer's Dictionnaire de Chymie
The eighteenth century saw the publication of many scientific and technical dictionaries, particularly in France, one of the most important being P. J. Macquer's Dictionnaire de chymie. Both the original text of 1766 and the revised and enlarged version of 1778 were translated into several languages, sometimes with authoritative notes and additions by the translators. No mere list of definitions, Macquer's work contained long articles that made i…
Newton on the Continent . Henry Guerlac
William Persehouse Delisle Wightman
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Niels Hugh de Vaudrey Heathcote
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Richard Broke Freeman
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Physics (5 works) · Action (physics (4 works) · Content (measure theory (4 works) · History (4 works) · Mathematics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Historical and Literary Studies (3 works) · History of Science and Natural History (3 works)