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The Culture of Visual Representations in Spectroscopic Education and Laboratory Instruction

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and show how these graphic resources were used to train the difficult skill of classifying stellar spectra. In its heyday, spectroscopy was firmly integrated in the curriculum to become an important part of the practical training not only of scientists but also of liberal arts students, even finding its way into vocational schools and Gymnasia. Within the framework of this Anschauungsunterricht I identify the teaching traditions and link them to the laboratory exercises by Kohlrausch, Pickering, Lockyer and Weinhold.

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Hentschel, K. The Culture of Visual Representations in Spectroscopic Education and Laboratory Instruction. Phys. perspect. 1, 282–327 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s000160050023

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Key words

  • Spectroscopy
  • spectrum analysis
  • education
  • laboratory instruction
  • physics textbooks
  • visual representation
  • MIT
  • Wellesley College
  • Harvard University
  • E. C. Pickering
  • S. F. Whiting
  • R. W. Willson
  • J. N. Lockyer
  • F. Kohlrausch