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In Class Activities for Hist 3530
 Evaluate an Article 


 * Name of article: Jules Jamin
 * Briefly describe why you have chosen this article to evaluate.
 * This article only contains one reference and that reference is only cited one time. This article also mainly focuses on the biography of Jules Jamin. There is only one main section with three very short sections. Both of the items within the Works and Tributes section are not cited with any references. There are gaps in the timeline of Jules's life within the biography. There is a lot of information within the biography that should be cited.
 * This article just hits the main or big ideas and achievements of his life. Some of these things don't explain why or how he got them.
 * Everything seems to be relevant to his career. The gaps in the timeline are the main thing that is wrong with this article.
 * The article hits at the main achievements but rushes over the work that he did during his lifetime.
 * I don't see any bias in the article, but most of the article is focused on his biography.
 * The links in the reference work, but one of them is in French which makes it difficult for those not who don't speak French.
 * The article is a start-class with low-importance.

 Picking Partners and Finding Sources (2/28/2020) 


 * Article: Jules Jamin
 * Partner: Danny Jones
 * Sources:
 * Measurement in French Experimental Physics from Regnault to Lippmann. Rhetoric and Theoretical Practice (2012)
 * Received Article
 * A section from Nature Vol. 33 No. 836-861 (1885-1886)
 * PDF of the Article
 * Brief details of his life. Has information about his birth and death.
 * There are articles that mention Jules Jamin in the Dictionary of Scientific Biography.

 Adding to an Article (3/6/2020) 


 * 1) Talk page - State changes
 * 2) Go to article and add your changes

Article Additions for Jules Jamin

 *  Adding a sentence (3/6/2020): 
 * He began his education at a small school in Vouziers, a small village located in northeast France. After some time there, he was sent to the College at Reims by his father, Antoine-Pierre. In his first year at the College at Reims Jules won nine awards.

Works
Jules Jamin had a couple articles that were published in Revue des Deux Mondes, a French magazine that was published in Paris. One article that Jamin had published was titled "LA PHYSIQUE DEPUIS LES RECHERCHES D'HERSCHEL: I. MELLONI ET SES TRAVAUX SUR LA CHALEUR RAYONNANTE," which translates to "Physics Since Herschel's Research: Melloni and His Work on Radiant Heat." This article was published on December 15th of 1854. The other article that Jamin wrote was titled "L'OPTIQUE ET LA PEINTURE," which translates as "Optics and Painting." This article was published on February 1st of 1857. Both of these articles were published during Jamin's time as the professor of physics at the École Polytechnique.Gwhtgh (talk) 17:49, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

Tributes
Jules Jamin's name is one of the 72 names that are inscribed on the Eiffel Tower. His name is located on the side that faces Grenelle, a neighborhood located in the southwestern part of Paris. .Gwhtgh (talk) 17:49, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

Societies
Find and cite different societies that Jules Jamin was a part of.Gwhtgh (talk) 18:10, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

Awards
Find and cite the 9 different awards that Jules won in his first year at the College at Reims.Gwhtgh (talk) 18:10, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

Review by K8shep (talk) 15:23, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
1. What does the article do well? Is there anything from your review that impressed you? Any turn of phrase that described the subject in a clear way? You've chosen some good things to add here. Your plan is outlined well and I can see that you have a lot of options for filling in information that is important and notable.

2. What changes would you suggest the author apply to the article? Why would those changes be an improvement? Make sure you're working to write out clearly what you want to add. Always cite your sources after your additions. What does it mean that his name is on the opposite side of the Eiffel Tower from Grenelle? Who is that? You'd need to add some detail or a link to the Eiffel Tower's page, or Grenelle's page. Basically--don't just add statements without some context or explanation.

3. What's the most important thing the author could do to improve the article? Make sure your narrative is cohesive and that you're citing sources all the way.

Article Additions for Jules Jamin:
Works

Through the Academy of Sciences, Jamin was a member of one of many committees whose purpose was to organize the Loan Collection of Scientific Instruments, a massive exhibition of scientific artifacts from which the Museum of Science in London was eventually founded.

Like many French scientists of the period, Jamin was known to perform scientific demonstrations in public with the goal of drawing enthusiastic crowds and gaining support for his work.

Jamin was a staunch advocate of the movement in 19th century French towards precision measurement being essential for meaningful scientific experimentation.

Djones6606 (talk) 00:23, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

Jules Jamin: Further Draft additions
Works

Jamin's areas of research were widely ranging. Such areas included the compressibility of liquids, the critical point of gases,specific heats, hygrometry, and the measurement of indices of refraction of gases, liquid water at different pressures, and of water vapor. In addition to the elliptical polarization of glassy substances (this is already noted in the current wikipedia article), he discovered the negative elliptical polarization of flourine. While he was a professor in Caen he would take his pupils on botanical and geologically focused expeditions on Sundays. Jamin was a staunch advocate of the movement in 19th century French towards precision measurement being essential for meaningful scientific experimentation. Like many French scientists of the period, Jamin was known to perform scientific demonstrations in public with the goal of drawing enthusiastic crowds and gaining support for his work.

In 1873, Jamin invented a magnet with a layered design that allowed it to carry twenty-two times its own weight. At the time the greatest lifting capacity demonstrated for an artificial magnet was only four to five times its own weight. He also improved on the Jablochkoff candle with his Jamin Electric Light, which he claimed "lights and relights itself as often as is required; only requires one circuit for all the neighboring candles; it replaces automatically those which are consumed, by new carbons; it employs no insulating material which might alter the color of the flame; and it requires no preliminary preparation of the carbons, which considerably diminishes the expense."

Biography

Jamin's areas of interest were not confined entirely to the sciences. He enjoyed studying the work of distinguished artists at the Louvre and was a talented artist himself. His family is in possession of many of his paintings, as is the church in his native commune of Termes.

Djones6606 (talk) 17:58, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

Review by K8shep (talk) 15:25, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
1. What does the article do well? Is there anything from your review that impressed you? Any turn of phrase that described the subject in a clear way? I can see that you've got some good additions here to the Works section. You've got really good sources and I'm glad you're using the Bowler and Morus book here. There's a lot in our course documents so good job finding that.

2. What changes would you suggest the author apply to the article? Why would those changes be an improvement? Make sure you're citing after almost every sentence and that what you're adding makes sense. It looks like you are--but keep that in mind.

3. What's the most important thing the author could do to improve the article? Keep up the good work here.