Instruments in Print: Books from the Whipple Collection - Softcover

Renzi, Silvia De

 
9780906271162: Instruments in Print: Books from the Whipple Collection

Synopsis

x 106p large paperback, many illustration, a very good copy

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Synopsis

An illustrated catalogue of sixty rare books of science from the collection that Robert Whipple bequeathed to the University of Cambridge in 1944. This illustrated catalogue presents a selection of sixty rare books of science from the collection that Robert Whipple bequeathed to the University of Cambridge in 1944. It explores the history of the collection, and shows how to use books on instruments for research at the intersection of book history and the history of science.

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