The Science of Automatic Precision
secondary literature · 2014
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SUMMARY
Peer-reviewed history-of-science journal article on Dinshah Ghadiali's Spectro-Chrome, DOI 10.1525/hsns.2014.44.2.140 verified directly against the Crossref record (published-print 2014-04-01, pages 140-177, publisher University of California Press, sole author Matthew Lavine). The Crossref-recorded abstract states Spectro-Chrome "was practiced by more than ten thousand Americans over the half-century following its introduction in 1920" and describes it as the invention of Dinshah Ghadiali, "a charismatic inventor and popular science lecturer." Used in this case as the qualifying peer-reviewed historical assessment establishing the scale, practitioner demographics (mostly self-treating laypeople, encouraged to see themselves as scientific researchers), and origin date of the Spectro-Chrome movement.
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The core scholarly source for this case: a peer-reviewed history-of-science article on Dinshah Ghadiali and the Spectro-Chrome, verifying the movement’s 1920 origin, its scale (more than ten thousand practitioners over roughly fifty years), and its social composition.