Making instruments count : essays on historical scientific instruments presented to Gerard L'Estrange Turner
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Making instruments count : essays on historical scientific instruments presented to Gerard L'Estrange Turner
Variorum, 1993
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注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
These studies in honour of Gerard Turner cover the history of old scientific instruments. Specific mechanisms described include a medieval astrolabe from Picardy, Black's chemical furnace, a sundial for the blind and astronomical clocks. Inventors, writers and innovators are also covered.
目次
- APPROACHES TO INSTRUMENT HISTORY
- Some uses for catalogue s of old scientific instruments, J.L. Heilbron
- Interpreting the history of scientific instruments, A.J. Turner
- EARLY INSTRUMENTS
- An unknown Latin version of an ancient Parapegma: The Weather-forecasting stars in the Iudicia of Pseudo-Ptolemy, Charles Burnett
- Rewriting history through instruments: The secrets of a medieval astrolabe from Picardy, David A King
- Astronomical paper instruments with moving parts, Owen Gingerich
- INSTRUMENTS AND ART
- Raphael's Astronomia: between art and science, Kristen Lippincott
- Scientific instruments: an Iconographic Note, C.R. Hill
- INSTRUMENTS AND SCIENCE
- Christina of Sweden and the sciences, Silvio A Bedini
- Joseph Black and his chemical furnace, R.G.W. Anderson
- Wheatstone's wave machine: A Physical model of light, Howard A.L. Dawes
- More than 'a mere gazing place': the special loan exhibition and the science conferences of 1876, Frank Greenaway
- Electricity from steam: Armstrong's hydroelectric machine in the 1840s, Willem Hackmann
- The pendulum as the British. length standard: a 19th-century legal aberration, A.D.C. Simpson
- BRITISH INSTRUMENTS 'A very artificial workman': the altitude sundials of Humphrey Cole, Deny s Vaughan
- An equatorial ring dial by Ralph Greatorex, A.V. Simcock
- Francis Hall's sundial for the blind, Jan De Graeve
- Early navigational instruments in Scotland: Icons and survivals, A. Morrison-Low
- Equipping the Radcliffe Observatory: Thomas Hornsby and his Instrument-Makers, J.A. Bennett, William Prout and the urinometer: Some interpretations, John Burnett
- INSTRUMENTS IN THE NETHERLANDS Brittle Glass: A fragile chapter in the history of experimental physics, Peter De Clerq
- Frederik Kaiser and his 'steady boat compass with nightly illumination', Elly Dekker
- Elisa van der Ven and the physical laboratory of the Teyler Foundation (Haarlem), 1878-1909, Marijn van Hoorn
- OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS
- A tale of two instruments, Roderick and Marjorie Webster
- Seventeeth-century Simple Microscopes, Brian Bracegirdle
- The True name of Selligue, Margarida Archinard
- Utrecht University and its microscopes, J.C. Deiman
- THE INSTRUMENT-MAKING
- The Spectaclemakers' Company and the origins of the optical Instrument-Making Trade in London, Gloria Clifton
- A 1701 dictionary of mathematical instruments, D.J. Bryden
- Illustrations of scientific instruments in the Gentleman's magazine, 1746-1796, Peter Delehar
- Some notes on Benjamin Ayres, J.H. Leopold
- Jeppe Smith (1759-1821): a Danish instrument-maker, Hemming Andersen
- Scientific instruments and industrial innovation: the achievement of Jesse Ramsden, Allen Chapman: Thomas Cooke's order book: analysis of an optical business, 1856-1868, Anita McConnell
- INVENTORIES AND COLLECTIONS
- The Irish national inventory and one of its 'discoveries', Charles Mollan
- The astronomical clocks of Andreas Hohwu: a checklist, Willem F.J. Morzer Bruyns
- Index.
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