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Teru Miyake
@terumiyake.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. My work focuses on history and philosophy of the physical sciences, particularly geosciences, astronomy, and physical measurement.
Webpage: www.terumiyake.com
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My own contribution to the George Smith volume is on John Herschel. I trace Herschel's concept of residual phenomena back to work he was doing on physical astronomy, in particular an article he wrote in 1823 for the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
‘To Witness Facts with the Eyes of Reason’: Herschel on Physical Astronomy and the Method of Res...
One of the distinctive features of George Smith’s work on celestial mechanics is his emphasis on the role of what he calls “second-order phenomena” in the production of high-quality ...
Not in open access and my library hasn't acquired it yet. Any chance to have a copy of this chapter? Hearty thanks, and congrats.
Could you share a PDF? This is a topic I have a long interest in.
TM
Teru Miyake
@terumiyake.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. My work focuses on history and philosophy of the physical sciences, particularly geosciences, astronomy, and physical measurement.
Webpage: www.terumiyake.com
139 followers117 following12 posts