Scientific Instruments and Collections – serie
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Forty Years of Scientific Instrument Studies
The Scientific Instrument Commission
Inbunden, 2025
2061 kr
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Since 1981, the Scientific Instrument Commission has provided a forum for annual international discussion of topics close to the hearts of those caring for and researching historic scientific instruments. During these years, increasing professionalisation of curatorship and deepened engagement by …
From Earth-Bound to Satellite
Telescopes, Skills and Networks
Inbunden, 2011
2247 kr
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The volume forms a part of the celebrations marking the anniversary of the invention of the telescope. From its Renaissance beginnings to yesterday’s Cold War, the essays contributed here throw a spotlight on a number of significant episodes in the continuing adventures of this well-loved …
Cabinets of Experimental Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Av Jim Bennett
Inbunden, 2013
2579 kr
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Cabinets of Experimental Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Europe is an ambitious contribution to the growing interest in how science came to engage the attention of a public outside the academic and professional spheres and how collections of instruments played a formative role in this development. …
Scientific Instruments on Display
Inbunden, 2014
2472 kr
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During their active lives, scientific instruments generally inhabit the laboratory, observatory, classroom or the field. But instruments have also lived in a wider set of venues, as objects on display. As such, they acquire new levels of meaning; their cultural functions expand. This book offers …
How Scientific Instruments Have Changed Hands
Inbunden, 2016
2505 kr
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This collection of essays discusses the marketing of scientific and medical instruments from the eighteenth century to the First World War. The evidence presented here is derived from sources as diverse as contemporary trade literature, through newspaper advertisements, to rarely-surviving …
Heaven and Earth United
Instruments in Astrological Contexts
Av Richard Dunn
Inbunden, 2018
2578 kr
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Historically, the idea that the stars and planets influence the Earth and its inhabitants has proved powerful in almost every culture, offering an important context for the use of mathematical and astronomical instruments. In the past, however, historians of astronomy have paid relatively little …
Scientific Instruments between East and West
Av Neil Brown
Inbunden, 2019
2727 kr
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Scientific Instruments between East and West is a collection of essays on aspects of the transmission of knowledge about scientific instruments and the trade in such instruments between the Eastern and Western worlds, particularly from Europe to the Ottoman Empire. The contributors, from a variety …
Astronomical Clock of Strasbourg Cathedral
Function and Significance
Inbunden, 2020
2839 kr
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Strasbourg Cathedral’s astronomical clock is one of the most famous monuments to Time in the world. No other clock has been described and appreciated so often and in such a myriad of ways. There were three clocks built consecutively within the cathedral: the earlier fourteenth century clock has …
Historical Scientific Instruments in Contemporary Education
Inbunden, 2021
2413 kr
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These essays draw on recent and versatile work by museum staff, science educators, and teachers, showing what can be done with historical scientific instruments or replicas. Varied audiences - with members just like you - can be made aware of exciting aspects of history, observation, …
Failed Historical Scientific Instruments
Inbunden, 2024
2035 kr
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Can a scientific instrument be regarded as a failure? Why and how? By shedding light on the complexity of these questions, the volume marks a step forward in the way historical scientific instruments can be analysed and displayed.The essays show how diverse failures can be, and how the assessment …
