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Author : Laura Manetti
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Restoration of Scientific Instruments written by Laura Manetti and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ronald Pearsall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Collecting and Restoring Scientific Instruments written by Ronald Pearsall and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004499679
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Historical Scientific Instruments in Contemporary Education written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When science’s “black boxes” are pried open, its workings become accessible. Like time-travellers into history but grounded in today’s cultures, learners interact directly with authentic instruments and replicas. Chapters describe educational experiences sparked through collaborations interrelating museum, school and university.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004324933
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book How Scientific Instruments Have Changed Hands written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays discusses the marketing of scientific and medical instruments from the eighteenth century to the First World War. The evidence presented here is derived from sources as diverse as contemporary trade literature, through newspaper advertisements, to rarely-surviving inventories, and from the instruments themselves. The picture may not yet be complete, but it has been acknowledged that it is more complex than sketched out twenty-five or even fifty years ago. Here is a collection of case-studies from the United Kingdom, the Americas and Europe showing instruments moving from maker to market-place, and, to some extent, what happened next. Contributors are: Alexi Baker, Paolo Brenni, Laura Cházaro, Gloria Clifton, Peggy Aldrich Kidwell, Richard L. Kremer, A.D. Morrison-Low, Joshua Nall, Sara J. Schechner, and Liba Taub.
Author : Michael Hunter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317027876
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Image of Restoration Science written by Michael Hunter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about a single image - the frontispiece to Thomas Sprat’s History of the Royal-Society of London (1667). Designed by John Evelyn, and etched by Wenceslaus Hollar, it is arguably the best-known representation of seventeenth-century English science. The use of such plates to celebrate and legitimise the ‘new’ science of the period falls into a tradition that was well-established both in Britain and in Europe more generally, and which has increasingly attract attention from historians. Nevertheless, there are many questions to be asked about it and how it came into being. Was it an original composition by Evelyn, or is it based on earlier exemplars? Can all the scientific instruments, books and other objects that appear in it be identified, and what significance should be attached to their inclusion? Above all, how did the plate come to be designed in the first place, and what is its true relationship with Sprat’s book? In order to assess such issues, this study provides a full analysis of Evelyn’s image in its Royal Society setting and the wider world of early-modern science. The book first considers the overall iconography of the image and its message concerning Evelyn’s conception of the society’s role, before moving on to examine the myriad of details included in the plate and their significance. It concludes by considering the print’s history after publication, including the extent to which Evelyn used copies to exemplify the combination of technological and artistic accomplishment to which he believed the society should aspire.
Author : Robert Bud
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780815315612
Total Pages : 740 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (156 download)
Download or read book Instruments of Science written by Robert Bud and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1998 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 300 entries from the ancient abacus to X-ray diffraction, as represented by a ca. 1900 photo of an X- ray machine as well as the latest research into filmless x- ray systems, this tour of the history of scientific instruments in multiple disciplines provides context and a bibliography for each entry. Newer conceptions of "instrument" include organisms widely used in research: e.g. the mouse, drosophila, and E. coli. Bandw photographs and diagrams showcase more traditional instruments from The Science Museum, London, and the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Jean-François Gauvin
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004504613
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Instruments of Knowledge written by Jean-François Gauvin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-06-19 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a bid to claim ‘scientific objects’ as requiring a significant amount of conceptual labor, this book looks sequentially at instruments, habits, and museums. The goal is to uncover how, together, these material and immaterial activities, rules, and commitments form one meaningful and credible blueprint revealing the building blocks of knowledge production. They serve to conceptualize and examine the entire life of an instrument: from its ideation and craft to its use, reuse, circulation, recycling, and (if not obliterated) its final entry into a museum. It is such an epistemological triptych that guides this investigation.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004689109
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Failed Historical Scientific Instruments written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-06-20 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can a scientific instrument be regarded as a failure? Why and how? By shedding light on the complexity of these questions, the volume marks a step forward in the way historical scientific instruments can be analysed and displayed. The essays show how diverse failures can be, and how the assessment of scientific devices may change over time — some surprisingly becoming more successful. In addition to studies of how technical features led to failure, the authors examine the roles played by social bias and behaviour, commercial and economic circumstances, and political factors.
Author : Gerard L'Estrange Turner
Publisher : Blandford
ISBN 13 : 9780713710687
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Antique Scientific Instruments written by Gerard L'Estrange Turner and published by Blandford. This book was released on 1980 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gerard L'Estrange Turner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520051607
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Nineteenth-century Scientific Instruments written by Gerard L'Estrange Turner and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the variety of instruments and equipment used in scientific research in fields such as chemistry, mechanics, meteorology, and electricity
Author : Giorgio Strano
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900417270X
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book European Collections of Scientific Instruments, 1550-1750 written by Giorgio Strano and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-01-26 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These selected studies on sixteenth and eighteenth centuries European collections of scientific instruments, which were part of the princely ‘wunderkammern’, delineate an up-to-date-panorama about the formation of the most important museums of the history of science.
Author : Peter R. De Clercq
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Nineteenth-century Scientific Instruments and Their Makers written by Peter R. De Clercq and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter R. De Clercq
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Scientific Instruments written by Peter R. De Clercq and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gerard L'Estrange Turner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Scientific Instruments, 1500-1900 written by Gerard L'Estrange Turner and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Hunter
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317027884
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Image of Restoration Science written by Michael Hunter and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about a single image - the frontispiece to Thomas Sprat’s History of the Royal-Society of London (1667). Designed by John Evelyn, and etched by Wenceslaus Hollar, it is arguably the best-known representation of seventeenth-century English science. The use of such plates to celebrate and legitimise the ‘new’ science of the period falls into a tradition that was well-established both in Britain and in Europe more generally, and which has increasingly attract attention from historians. Nevertheless, there are many questions to be asked about it and how it came into being. Was it an original composition by Evelyn, or is it based on earlier exemplars? Can all the scientific instruments, books and other objects that appear in it be identified, and what significance should be attached to their inclusion? Above all, how did the plate come to be designed in the first place, and what is its true relationship with Sprat’s book? In order to assess such issues, this study provides a full analysis of Evelyn’s image in its Royal Society setting and the wider world of early-modern science. The book first considers the overall iconography of the image and its message concerning Evelyn’s conception of the society’s role, before moving on to examine the myriad of details included in the plate and their significance. It concludes by considering the print’s history after publication, including the extent to which Evelyn used copies to exemplify the combination of technological and artistic accomplishment to which he believed the society should aspire.
Author : Silvio A. Bedini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Early American Scientific Instruments and Their Makers written by Silvio A. Bedini and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within recent years fairly exhaustive studies have been made on many aspects on American Science and Technology. To make a comprehensive study of American scientific instruments and instrument makers in the American Colonies is no simple matter, partly because of an indifference to the subject in the past, and partly because of the great volume of sources that must be sifted to accomplish it.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900426440X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Scientific Instruments on Display written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-08-14 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During their active lives, scientific instruments generally inhabit the laboratory, observatory, classroom or the field. But instruments have also lived in a wider set of venues, as objects on display. As such, they acquire new levels of meaning; their cultural functions expand. This book offers selected studies of instruments on display in museums, national fairs, universal exhibitions, patent offices, book frontispieces, theatrical stages, movie sets, and on-line collections. The authors argue that these displays, as they have changed with time, reflect changing social attitudes towards the objects themselves and toward science and its heritage. By bringing display to the center of analysis, the collection offers a new and ambitious framework for the study of scientific instruments and the material culture of science. Contributors are: Amy Ackerberg-Hastings, Silke Ackermann, Marco Beretta, Laurence Bobis, Alison Boyle, Fausto Casi, Ileana Chinnici, Suzanne Débarbat, Richard Dunn, Inga Elmqvist-Söderlund, Ingrid Jendrzejewski, Peggy A. Kidwell, Richard Kremer, Mara Miniati, Richard A. Paselk, Donata Randazzo, Steven Turner.
