The Fundamentals of Radiation Thermometers

Authored by two highly respected experts in this specialist area, The Fundamentals of Radiation Thermometers is an essential resource for anyone intending to measure the temperature of an object using the radiated energy from that object. This readable, user-friendly book gives important background knowledge for anyone working in the field of non-contact thermometry. The book begins with an accessible account of how temperature scales are set up and defined, and explores the historic development of temperature scales and Planck's radiation law. Through explaining the reliability of both emissivity values and extrapolation to different wavelengths and temperatures, the book provides a foundation for understanding when a valid measurement with realistic uncertainties has been made, or if an inappropriate emissivity value has been used with consequent unknown errors. The book also presents the hardware of radiation thermometers, allowing the reader to specify an appropriate design for a particular measurement problem. It explores multi-wavelength radiation thermometry and its associated pitfalls, and a final chapter suggests strategies to minimise the uncertainties from unreliable emissivity data.

Science & Math

Löwe, David

Coates, Peter

Physics

CRC-Press

In an advertisement for water filter cartridges, we see a tumbling waterfall. The caption reads, "Like nature, Brita is beautifully simple." What kind of thinking is this? Is nature an objective reality that, in its beautiful simplicity, is unaffected by time, culture, and place? The word nature itself: what do we actually mean by it? These are some of the riveting questions examined by Peter Coates as he demonstrates that nature, like us, has a history of its own. Beginning with Roman times, Coates investigates the ideological and material factors that have influenced human perceptions of, attitudes toward, and uses of nature—notably religion and ethics, science, technology, economics, gender, and ethnicity. Nature is seen among its rich panoply of meanings as a physical place, as the collective phenomena of the world, as an essence or principle that informs the workings of the world, as an inspiration and guide for people and a source of authority governing human affairs, and as the conceptual opposite of culture. By examining these aspects of nature, Coates leads us on a spectacular tour of the central intellectual forces of Western civilization. The book is essential reading for those who seek an understanding of the history of ideas and the role of nature in that history.

Nature: Western Attitudes Since Ancient Times

Business & Money

Economics

University of California Press

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Sometimes by accident and sometimes on purpose, humans have transported plants and animals to new habitats around the world. Arriving in ever-increasing numbers to American soil, recent invaders have competed with, preyed on, hybridized with, and carried diseases to native species, transforming our ecosystems and creating anxiety among environmentalists and the general public. But is American anxiety over this crisis of ecological identity a recent phenomenon? Charting shifting attitudes to alien species since the 1850s, Peter Coates brings to light the rich cultural and historical aspects of this story by situating the history of immigrant flora and fauna within the wider context of human immigration. Through an illuminating series of particular invasions, including the English sparrow and the eucalyptus tree, what he finds is that we have always perceived plants and animals in relation to ourselves and the polities to which we belong. Setting the saga of human relations with the environment in the broad context of scientific, social, and cultural history, this thought-provoking book demonstrates how profoundly notions of nationality and debates over race and immigration have shaped American understandings of the natural world.

American Perceptions of Immigrant and Invasive Species: Strangers on the Land

Americas

Nature: Western Attitudes Since Ancient Times (Themes in History)

Polity

This volume chronicles the evolution of conservationist concern over Alaska since America acquired it. Coates reviews the developments that aroused concern, investigates the changes in the nature and strength of the concern, and assesses the debates over these issues.

Trans-Alaskan Pipeline Controversy: Technology, Conservation, and the Frontier

University of Alaska Press

This is the first book to provide an exchange between the teachings of one of the world's great mystical teachers and modern Western intellectual thought. It analyses the underlying conception of knowledge that permeates the metaphysics of Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi (1165-1240), and compares it with the paradigmatic assumptions about knowledge that have permeated much of twentieth-century theoretical culture. In these global times it is curious that the works of Ibn 'Arabi which have had such profound influence upon the Islamic world, should be so little known and little discussed in the Western theoretical architecture of the 21st century. Ibn 'Arabi's remarks on causality, time, contingency, necessity, epistemology, ontology, ethics and aesthetics alone would entice even the most wary of modernity's intellectual authorities. This book deals with the findings of some of these authorities - modern philosophy, social science and psychology - in an open discourse between the ancient and the modern, the traditional and the scientific, the industrial and the personal. It is an invitation to reconsider some of the central tenets of modernity in the light of Ibn 'Arabi's writings on the Unity of Existence.

Ibn 'Arabi and Modern Thought

Anqa Publishing

These penetrating metaphysical and spiritual teachings cross the divides of culture and time, providing unexpectedly modern insight.

Ibn 'Arabi and Modern Thought: The History of Taking Metaphysics Seriously

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

The influence of human economies and cultures on ecosystems is particularly striking in the new worlds into which Europeans have expanded over the past five hundred years. Using a comparative and multidisciplinary approach, Beinart and Coates examine this neglected aspect of the history of settler incursion and dominance in two frontier nations, the USA and South Africa. They also seek to explain change in indigenous ideas and practices towards the environment, and discuss the rise of popular environmentalism up to the present day.

Environment and History: The taming of nature in the USA and South Africa (Historical Connections)

Beinart, William

Real Estate

Routledge

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