ABBE, ERNST

ĕrnst äˈbə, 1840–1905, German physicist. He was appointed professor at the Univ. of Jena in 1870 and director of its astronomical and meteorological observatories in 1878. From 1866 he was associated with the Carl-Zeiss optical works at Jena, of which he became sole owner in 1888. He subsequently reorganized the firm on a cooperative basis. He made his plant a laboratory for the development of model working conditions, created a noncontributory pension fund and a discharge compensation fund, and introduced other advanced ideas that have been influential in shaping thought on the conditions of labor. He invented the Abbe refractometer for determining the refractive index of substances and improved photographic and microscopic lenses.

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Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst: The Bride Shared
Book by David Hopkins; Clarendon Press, 1998
Subjects: Duchamp, Marcel--1887-1968--Criticism And Interpretation, Ernst, Max--1891-1976--Criticism And Interpretation
...LHomme Machine 33 Laberthonniere, Abbe 38 Lacan, Jacques 47 , 185 n...2 Le Roi jouant avec la reine Ernst 119 Le Roy, Une nouvelle philosophie...157 n. on La belle jardiniere Ernst 95 -6 Max Ernst 125 , 173 -5 Leibniz, Gottfried...
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Skeptical Selves: Empiricism and Modernity in the French Novel
Book by Elena Russo; Stanford University, 1996
Subjects: Constant, Benjamin--1767-1830--Adolphe--English, Des Forets, Louis-Rene--Bavard, French fiction--History and criticism, Modernism (Literature)--France, Prevost--abbe--1697-1763--Histoire d'une Grecque moderne, Self in literature, Semiotics and literature, Skepticism in literature
...13 , 132 -36, 140 , 142 -44, 104 n.16 Borges, Jorge Luis, 17 , 105 , 159 -60 Calvino, Italo, 15 , 160 Cassirer, Ernst, 193 n.49 Categories of the sign , 208 n.4 Chardin, Chevalier de, 64 , 195 n.64 Charles, Michel, 199 n.25 Condillac...
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A Classical Republican in Eighteenth-Century France: The Political Thought of Mably
Book by Johnson Kent Wright; Stanford University Press, 1997
Subjects: Mably--abbe de--1709-1785--contributions in political science, Political science--Philosophy--History--18th century
...Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe: Historisches Lexikon zur politisch-sozialen Sprache in Deutschland , 5 , pp. 706-25. Stuttgart: Ernst Klett, 1972. La Jean de Bruyere. Les Caracteres . Ed. Robert Pignarre. Paris: Garnier-Flammarion, 1965. Lecercle...
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Life and Matter: A Criticism of Professor Haeckel's "Riddle of the Universe", by Sir Oliver Lodge
Book by Sir Oliver Lodge; Putnam, 1905
Subjects: Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August--1834-1919--Lebenswunder--English, Life--Origin, Monism, Philosophy And Religion
...instructive report in this note: Extract from "The Tablet," August 27, 1904--An Address by the Bishop of Newport. If the Abbe Loisy has followers within the Church, us we are informed he has, it cannot be doubted that the danger for Catholics is by...
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The Golden Pot and Other Tales
Book by E. T. A. Hoffmann, Ritchie Robertson; Oxford University Press, 2000
Subjects: Fiction, Hoffmann, E. T. A--(Ernst Theodor Amadeus)--1776-1822
...he appears as a salamander he is clearly a majestic figure. He is one of the elemental spirits described in the book by the Abbe Villars de Montfaucon , Le Comte de Gabalis ou Entretiens des sciences secretes Paris, 1670 , best known to the anglophone reader...
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journal articles on: Abbe Ernst  - 40 results

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A Certain Idea of France: Ernst Junger's Paris Diaries 1941-44
Journal article by Richard Griffiths; Journal of European Studies, Vol. 89, 1993
Subjects: Authors, German--Records and correspondence, France, German writers--Records and correspondence, Germans in France--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Germans--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Germans--France, Juenger, Ernst--Records and correspondence, Paris, France--History
A Certain Idea of France: Ernst Jungers Paris Diaries 1941-44. by...precious to me in the old culture.1 Ernst Jungers view of Paris and of France...a century and a half before, by the Abbe, Sieyes. One is not surprised, very...
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'Im Osten Viel Neues': Plenty of News from the Eastern Lander
Journal article by Barbara Ischinger; Daedalus, Vol. 126, 1997
Subjects: Education and state--Germany, Educational innovations--Germany, Educational planning--Germany, Germany--Schools
...in Thuringia. With the cooperation between Zeiss and Ernst Abbe at the university, Jena epitomized the productive combination...impressive number of publications in the early 1990s on Ernst Bloch and his removal from Leipzig University.)(15...
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Industrial Democracy: Historical Development and Current Challenges**
Journal article by Walther Müller-Jentsch; Management Revue, Vol. 19, 2008
Subjects: Germany, Industrial democracy, Social marketing, Studies, Worker codetermination
...employees as equal citi2ens and not as subordinates. Prominent examples of those late 19fh century entrepreneurs were Ernst Abbe who introduced independent workers representation in the Optische Werke Carl Zeiss in Jena. As well as Heinrich Freese...
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The Idea of Transfiguration in the Early German Reception of Mozart's Requiem
Journal article by Elizabeth Kramer; Current Musicology, 2006
Subjects: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus--Criticism and interpretation, Music and society--Religious aspects, Religion and music--Criticism and interpretation, Religious music--Criticism and interpretation, Requiem Mass in D Minor (Musical work)--Criticism and interpretation
...the debates between Weber, the composer Abbe Maximilian Stadler, and the publisher...empirical rebuttal of Webers argument came from Abbe Maximilian Stadler. Stadler, who had...respected commentators and musicians such as Abbe Stadler had been among the most outspoken...
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"When Novelists Become Cubists": the Prose Ideograms of Guy Davenport
Journal article by Andre Furlani; Style, Vol. 36, 2002
Subjects: Davenport, Guy, Literary criticism, Novels
...eye, the paleolithic authority Abbe Breuil soon attests to the murals...not there,"Davenport notes in "Ernst Machs Max Ernst" (Geography 376). Of the discovery...foraging. Davenport explains in "Ernst Machs Max Ernst" that the text...
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magazine articles on: Abbe Ernst  - 7 results

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History of Wide Screen Formats
Magazine article by Rick Mitchell; American Cinematographer, Vol. 68, May 1987
...and only mention of anamorphics the author found in his research on Hollywood activities during this period, though Ernst Abbe and Carl Zeiss had first developed anamorphic lenses for still cameras 25 years earlier. After using the concept for...
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Rendering Images in 3-d
Magazine article by Aileen Constans; The Scientist, Vol. 18, April 26, 2004
...every cell in an organ and link it to genomics and proteomics data. ENHANCING THE RESOLUTION More than a century ago, Ernst Abbe observed that resolution, or the ability to distinguish between closely spaced objects, is limited by the diffraction...
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Lost without Trace: Hunting for Heinrich Schulz-beuthen
Magazine article by Chris Walton; Musical Times, Vol. 147, Summer 2006
Subjects: Composers, Musicology, Personal profiles, Schulz-Beuthen, Heinrich (1838-1915)
...according to family legend, had studied with Abbe Vogler at the same time as Carl Maria von...regularity, even by figures as prominent as Ernst von Schuch (the conductor of the world...settings for male voice choir of poems by Ernst Benedikt Kietz, composed in May 1871 and...
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The Bookshelf
Magazine article by George L. George; American Cinematographer, Vol. 56, August 1975
...two latest volumes in the series are JOHN FORDS STAGECOACH and ERNST LUBITSCHS NINOTCHKA. (Avon/Flare $5.95 ea.) Editor...Duke, Jackie Coogan and many others. (Barnes $10.) James Abbe was a gifted still camera artist, whose selected photographs...
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Home-Making
Magazine article by Peter Davey; The Architectural Review, Vol. 200, October 1996
Subjects: Architecture--Analysis, Dwellings--Design and construction
...private and the public worlds, which, as everyone from the Abbe Laugier to Le Corbusier has pointed out, are intimately related...Ole and Roemer van Toorn, Academy Editions, London, and Ernst Sohn, Berlin, 1994, p268. (8) Ibid. (9) Le Corbusier...
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newspaper articles on: Abbe Ernst  - 5 results

 
 
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Microscope Stands Up to Scrutiny; under the Hammer
Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), June 7, 2008
...producers were Ross and Smith and Beck. Carl Zeiss Jena produced its first oil immersion objective in 1880, designed by Ernst Abbe, who was the founder of the optical theory of microscope lenses. Due to better mass fabrication techniques, microscope...
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Atlanta Is like an Everest for Me and I Reckon I'm Halfway Up
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), May 27, 1996
...to her name and you could puncture her confidence with one of the pine needles that covered the paths leading to the Ernst-Abbe-Sportfeld. Saturdays race was more than enough. `I mucked up the first hurdle which, I havent done in goodness...
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Entertainment
Newspaper article; Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England), May 12, 2009
Subjects: Cricket, Cricket (Sport), Premier League--Media coverage, Sports associations
...Football. Germany v Holland (Kick-off 4.45pm). Coverage of the third and final Group B match for both sides at the Ernst-Abbe Sportfeld in Jena, Germany. 6.25 Planet Armstrong. A profile of Lance Armstrong. 6.30 Eurogoals. European football...
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North Eugene High School
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), June 4, 2010
Subjects: Musicians
...be honored at graduation are: Ethan Bursofsky, the son of Ernst and Shannon Bursofsky, was editor-in-chief of the school...computer science. Class of 2010 The 192 graduates include Charles Abbe, Amanda Adams, Bradley Akridge, Nathan Alpers, Cinthia Alvarez...
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Today in History
Newspaper article; Daily Examiner (Grafton, Australia), April 1, 2009
...service in Sydney; Death of German painter and sculptor Max Ernst, a founding member of the Dada group. * 1984 - US soul singer...the first country to permit mercy killing. Todays birthdays Abbe Prevost, French writer and journalist (1697-1763); Prince...


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encyclopedia articles on: Abbe Ernst  - 2 results

 
 
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Abbe, Ernst
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ABBE, ERNST ernst a b , 1840 1905, German physicist. He was appointed professor at the...influential in shaping thought on the conditions of labor. He invented the Abbe refractometer for determining the refractive index of substances and improved...
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Weber, Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst Von
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
WEBER, CARL MARIA FRIEDRICH ERNST VON fre drikh ernst f n va b r, 1786 1826, German composer and pianist; pupil of Michael Haydn and Abbe Vogler. He made his debut as a pianist at 13 and began to...


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