Anthony Turner
Biographic Data
| ID | 3785255 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anthony Turner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anthony |
| FAMILY NAME | Turner |
| SIGNATURE | TURNER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Le Mesnil-le-Roi |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1815-9699 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Selecting force plate tests and metrics to complement physical preparation strategies prior to commencing strenuous military training courses
Background The aim of this study was to seek opinion (via an online survey) and gain consensus of which force plate tests and metrics may be considered by military operating/training staff to better screen physical performance characteristics prior to military personnel attending a physically arduous military training course. Methods Ten responders with known experience and/or expertise in using force plate technology for the measurement of force…
Alun C. Davies, The Rise and Decline of England’s Watchmaking Industry, 1550-1930 , New York & London, Routledge, Studies in Modern British History, 2022, 394 p
John Collins and the Double Horizontal Dial
On his admission to the Royal Society in 1667, John Collins presented to it, and described, an example of Henry Sutton's double horizontal dial with additions by himself. His description given on that occasion is here transcribed with some commentary both on the dial itself and on Collins’ involvement with it
Recycling Early Modern Mathematical Instruments
Examples are given of how old instruments were recycled in the Early-Modern period in consequence of the difficulty and cost of obtaining brass suitable for instrument-making. Details of this practice are illustrated from two astrolabes by Jean Fusoris, one of which, described here, is a new addition to the corpus of his work
Scientific Instruments between East and West
Scientific Instruments between East and West is a collection of essays on aspects of the transmission of knowledge about scientific instruments and the trade in such instruments between the Eastern and Western worlds, particularly from Europe to the Ottoman Empire. The contributors, from a variety of countries, draw on original Arabic and Ottoman Turkish manuscripts and other archival sources and publications dating from the fifteenth to the twen…
Adaptations to Swimming Training in Athletes with Down’s Syndrome
Swimming training programs may help to limit declines in cardiovascular conditioning, muscle strength, mobility and social functioning in individuals with Down's Syndrome (DS): (1) Background: This study aims to analyze the effects of a periodized swimming training program on swimming speed, lower body force and power and body composition in a group of swimmers with DS; (2) Methods: Nine swimmers with DS (2 men and 7 women; aged 21-30 years-old) …
A Mingling of Traditions
Physics and the Instrument-Makers, 1550–1700
This article examines the practice of instrument-making as it impinged upon the nascent science of physics during the period 1550–1700. Instrument-making workshops developed during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries — the period of transition in mathematical instrument-making from an occasional activity of scholar or artisan to a trade carried out in workshops in which it was possible for aspirants to the activity to be trained. One of the cha…
The Eclipse of the Sun
The Sun, in the early seventeenth century was, as it always had been, the ultimate arbiter of time-measurement In the last quarter of the century however this role was called into question as the new precision of post-Huygenian clocks revealed that natural time and the artificial mean time of the clock were not the same. Initially the question was little understood by the general public. The paper examines some early attempts to explain why "Sun-…
Naturalist, physician and book-maker
Restricted accessMoreSectionsView Full TextView PDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail Cite this article Turner Anthony 2012Naturalist, physician and book-makerNotes Rec.66307–308http://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2012.0025SectionRestricted accessBook reviewsNaturalist, physician and book-maker Anthony Turner Anthony Turner [email protected] Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Se…
Shaping the Day
Principles of Bacterial Detection: Biosensors, Recognition Receptors and Microsystems
An interrupted story
Although consistently recognized as desirable by both the Royal Society and the Académie des Sciences, translations of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society were only infrequently undertaken officially. More successful were some private attempts, which by the end of the eighteenth century had produced a virtually complete translation, albeit only of Lowthorp's abridgements
Microscopical advances
From an examnation of recently rediscovered examples of the simple microscope with spherical lens and specimen revolver, originally developed by Christiaan Huygens, the paper seeks to ¡Ilústrate how the combined study of texts and objects is essential to establishing the evolution of an instrument. Some of the newly discovered Instruments are described and comment ¡s made on the commercial forces w^hich acted in parallel with scientific ones on t…
Early Scientific Instruments
Institutional Response to Change
The origins and development of the Dip H.E. at Middlesex Polytechnic are described. The location of a multidisciplinary modular course in a departmentally organised institution requires a particular level of commitment from academic government and from individual members of staff. Resource allocation must be assured. Given these, a flexible response to pressures arising from student needs and the pressure exerted by departmental interests becomes…
An interrupted story
Although consistently recognized as desirable by both the Royal Society and the Académie des Sciences, translations of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society were only infrequently undertaken officially. More successful were some private attempts, which by the end of the eighteenth century had produced a virtually complete translation, albeit only of Lowthorp's abridgements
Institutional Response to Change
The origins and development of the Dip H.E. at Middlesex Polytechnic are described. The location of a multidisciplinary modular course in a departmentally organised institution requires a particular level of commitment from academic government and from individual members of staff. Resource allocation must be assured. Given these, a flexible response to pressures arising from student needs and the pressure exerted by departmental interests becomes…
Early Scientific Instruments
Microscopical advances
From an examnation of recently rediscovered examples of the simple microscope with spherical lens and specimen revolver, originally developed by Christiaan Huygens, the paper seeks to ¡Ilústrate how the combined study of texts and objects is essential to establishing the evolution of an instrument. Some of the newly discovered Instruments are described and comment ¡s made on the commercial forces w^hich acted in parallel with scientific ones on t…
Principles of Bacterial Detection: Biosensors, Recognition Receptors and Microsystems
An interrupted story
Although consistently recognized as desirable by both the Royal Society and the Académie des Sciences, translations of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society were only infrequently undertaken officially. More successful were some private attempts, which by the end of the eighteenth century had produced a virtually complete translation, albeit only of Lowthorp's abridgements
Naturalist, physician and book-maker
Restricted accessMoreSectionsView Full TextView PDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail Cite this article Turner Anthony 2012Naturalist, physician and book-makerNotes Rec.66307–308http://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2012.0025SectionRestricted accessBook reviewsNaturalist, physician and book-maker Anthony Turner Anthony Turner [email protected] Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Se…
Shaping the Day
The Eclipse of the Sun
The Sun, in the early seventeenth century was, as it always had been, the ultimate arbiter of time-measurement In the last quarter of the century however this role was called into question as the new precision of post-Huygenian clocks revealed that natural time and the artificial mean time of the clock were not the same. Initially the question was little understood by the general public. The paper examines some early attempts to explain why "Sun-…
Physics and the Instrument-Makers, 1550–1700
This article examines the practice of instrument-making as it impinged upon the nascent science of physics during the period 1550–1700. Instrument-making workshops developed during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries — the period of transition in mathematical instrument-making from an occasional activity of scholar or artisan to a trade carried out in workshops in which it was possible for aspirants to the activity to be trained. One of the cha…
A Mingling of Traditions
Scientific Instruments between East and West
Scientific Instruments between East and West is a collection of essays on aspects of the transmission of knowledge about scientific instruments and the trade in such instruments between the Eastern and Western worlds, particularly from Europe to the Ottoman Empire. The contributors, from a variety of countries, draw on original Arabic and Ottoman Turkish manuscripts and other archival sources and publications dating from the fifteenth to the twen…
Adaptations to Swimming Training in Athletes with Down’s Syndrome
Swimming training programs may help to limit declines in cardiovascular conditioning, muscle strength, mobility and social functioning in individuals with Down's Syndrome (DS): (1) Background: This study aims to analyze the effects of a periodized swimming training program on swimming speed, lower body force and power and body composition in a group of swimmers with DS; (2) Methods: Nine swimmers with DS (2 men and 7 women; aged 21-30 years-old) …
John Collins and the Double Horizontal Dial
On his admission to the Royal Society in 1667, John Collins presented to it, and described, an example of Henry Sutton's double horizontal dial with additions by himself. His description given on that occasion is here transcribed with some commentary both on the dial itself and on Collins’ involvement with it
Recycling Early Modern Mathematical Instruments
Examples are given of how old instruments were recycled in the Early-Modern period in consequence of the difficulty and cost of obtaining brass suitable for instrument-making. Details of this practice are illustrated from two astrolabes by Jean Fusoris, one of which, described here, is a new addition to the corpus of his work
Alun C. Davies, The Rise and Decline of England’s Watchmaking Industry, 1550-1930 , New York & London, Routledge, Studies in Modern British History, 2022, 394 p
Selecting force plate tests and metrics to complement physical preparation strategies prior to commencing strenuous military training courses
Background The aim of this study was to seek opinion (via an online survey) and gain consensus of which force plate tests and metrics may be considered by military operating/training staff to better screen physical performance characteristics prior to military personnel attending a physically arduous military training course. Methods Ten responders with known experience and/or expertise in using force plate technology for the measurement of force…
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