Making Instruments Count: Essays on Historical Scientific Instruments Presented to Gerard L'Estrange Turner - Hardcover
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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.
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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
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Edited by R. G. W. Anderson, J. A. Bennett, W. F. Ryan. xix, 492p., b/w illus., dj. Contains 35 essays by various scholars, plus a bibliography of the honoree. Seller Inventory # 053913
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Making Instruments Count: Essays on Historical Scientific Instruments Presented to Gerard L'Estrange Turner
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MAKING INSTRUMENTS COUNT
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FIRST EDITION. A NEAR FINE COPY IN A NEAR FINE GLASSINE PROTECTED DUSTWRAP. ESSAYS ON HISTORICAL SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS PRESENTED TO GERARD L`ESTRANGE TURNER. WELL ILLUSTRATED. Seller Inventory # 43271
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Making Instruments Count: Essays on Historical Scientific Instruments Presented to Gerard L'Estrange Turner
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. xix, 492 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Contents: Electricity from Steam: Armstrong's Hydroelectric Machine in the 1840's / Willem Hackmann -- The Pendulum as the British Length Standard: A Nineteenth-Century Legal Aberration / A.D.C. Simpson -- 'A Very Artificial Workman': The Altitude Sundials of Humphrey Cole / Denys Vaughan -- An Equinoctial 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.D. Morrison-Low -- Equipping the Radcliffe Observatory: Thomas Hornsby and his Instrument-Makers / J.A. Bennett -- William Prout and the Urinometer: Some Interpretations / John Burnett -- Brittle Glass: A Fragile Chapter in the History of Experimental Physics / Peter de Clercq -- 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. A Tale of Two Instruments / Roderick Webster and Marjorie Webster -- Seventeenth-Century Simple Microscopes / Brian Bracegirdle -- The True Name of Selligue / Margarida Archinard -- Utrecht University and its Microscopes / J.C. Deiman -- The Spectaclemakers' Company and the Origins of the Optical Instrument-Making Trade in London / Gloria C. 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 / Allan Chapman -- Thomas Cooke's Order Book: Analysis of an Optical Business, 1856-1868 / Anita McConnell -- The Irish National Inventory and One of its 'Discoveries' / Charles Mollan -- The Astronomical Clocks of Andreas Hohwu: A Checklist / Willem F.J. Morzer Bruyns. Seller Inventory # 16jbew717
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