Making Instruments Count Essays (7 results)
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Seller: Alexander Books (ABAC/ILAB), Ancaster, ON, CanadaAlexander Books (ABAC/ILAB)
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 492 Pages Illus.
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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.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 492pp. b&w plates. There is a gift dedication by the author on the fep.
Language: English
Published by Aldershot, Hampshire ; Brookfield, Vt. : Variorum 1993
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Seller: Joseph Burridge Books, Dagenham, United KingdomJoseph Burridge Books
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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 Artific…ial 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.
Published by Variorum Ashgate Publishing. 1993 1993
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ISBN-10: 0860783944 ISBN-13: 978-0860783947 First edition. VG showing slight bumping and rubbing and text block slightly out of shape but perfectly readable. In VG+ dustwrapper showing minor wear, creasing and light rubbing. A very pleasing example. The dustwrapper is housed in a protective removable sleeve. 10554. Rare.
MAKING INSTRUMENTS COUNT. ESSAYS ON HISTORICAL SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS PRESENTED TO GERALD L'ESTRANGE TURNER
Anderson, R. G. W. And J. A. Benenett and W. F. Ryan Editors
Published by Variorum, Cambridge 1993
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Seller: M.POLLAK ANTIQUARIAT Est.1899, ABA, ILAB, Tel-Aviv, , IsraelM.POLLAK ANTIQUARIAT Est.1899, ABA, ILAB
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Original Cloth w. Dust Jacket. Condition: Near Fine. XIX + 492 pp. A fine copy.
