xii, [204] pp; illus. 4to. Original cloth. Very Good. This book does NOT have any library markings. First Edition. SIGNED BY DAVID WHEATLAND: "To Dave & Connie Clement/ may they forgive the strong Harvard/ emphasis in these accounts-Yale has some fine apparatus too./ Dave Wheatland/ 4-20-72." "Describes and illustrates the approximately 85 instruments, mainly by the 'better' London makers, in the Harvard collection. Gives details of purchase and use, providing quotations from letters and from account books in the university archives, thus supplying valuable details of the history of the instruments and the part they played in the development of science at Harvard" (Home no. 523).

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Title: The Apparatus of Science at Harvard 1765-1800. SIGNED BY DAVID WHEATLAND.
Publisher: Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1968.
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Very Good
Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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