{"id":5604,"date":"2010-01-28T23:33:34","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T03:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etherwave.wordpress.com\/?p=5604"},"modified":"2010-01-28T23:33:34","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T03:33:34","slug":"crease-on-peirce-in-physics-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/2010\/01\/28\/crease-on-peirce-in-physics-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Crease on Peirce in Physics Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 148px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ptonline.aip.org\/journals\/doc\/PHTOAD-ft\/vol_62\/iss_12\/39_1.shtml?bypassSSO\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ptonline.aip.org\/journals\/doc\/PHTOAD-ft\/vol_62\/iss_12\/images\/39_1fig1.jpg?resize=148%2C227\" alt=\"\" width=\"148\" height=\"227\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;d meant to link to this earlier, but something was going on with the <em>Physics Today <\/em>website, and supposedly free content was getting hidden behind a paywall, but this is now resolved.\u00a0 In the December issue, <a href=\"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/2010\/01\/16\/in-praise-of-historiographical-work-horses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">workhorse historian<\/a> of physics Robert Crease <a href=\"http:\/\/ptonline.aip.org\/journals\/doc\/PHTOAD-ft\/vol_62\/iss_12\/39_1.shtml?bypassSSO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">had an article<\/a> on Charles Sanders Peirce&#8217;s involvement in 19th-century metrology.\u00a0 Peirce (pronounced &#8220;purse&#8221;) is best-known today for his involvement with American pragmatist philosophy.\u00a0 However, <a href=\"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/2010\/01\/26\/primer-william-thomson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">like William Thomson<\/a>, and in association with Albert Michelson (<a href=\"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/2009\/12\/23\/einsteins-generation-by-richard-staley-pt-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">as recently discussed at length by Richard Staley<\/a>), Peirce was also a key figure in the development of precision instrumentation and experimentation.\u00a0 The article is very timely to recent posts here, and upcoming posts as well, so do have a look if you&#8217;re at all interested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d meant to link to this earlier, but something was going on with the Physics Today website, and supposedly free content was getting hidden behind a paywall, but this is now resolved.\u00a0 In the December issue, workhorse historian of physics Robert Crease had an article on Charles Sanders Peirce&#8217;s involvement in 19th-century metrology.\u00a0 Peirce (pronounced<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; Crease on Peirce in Physics Today<\/span><a class=\"btn btn-secondary continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/2010\/01\/28\/crease-on-peirce-in-physics-today\/\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[70,235,1254,1262,1549],"class_list":["post-5604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-albert-michelson","tag-charles-sanders-peirce","tag-richard-staley","tag-robert-crease","tag-william-thomson"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}