Making Instruments Count Essays (6 results)

1st edition, hardback, large 8vo, xx,492pp., illustrated, clean and sound, no inscriptions, green cloth gilt, Very Good condition / Very Good dustwrapper. ISBN: 0860783944.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Bottom corners bumped else very good clean copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 492pp. b&w plates. There is a gift dedication by the author on the fep.

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. …

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.…

Original Cloth w. Dust Jacket. Condition: Near Fine. XIX + 492 pp. A fine copy.