Research Catalog

Title

Making instruments count : essays on historical scientific instruments presented to Gerard L'Estrange Turner / edited by R.G.W. Anderson, J.A. Bennett, W.F. Ryan.

Publication

Aldershot : Variorum, 1993.

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Additional Authors

• Anderson, R. G. W. (Robert Geoffrey William)
• Bennett, J. A. (James A.)
• Ryan, W. F. (William Francis)
• Turner, Gerard L'Estrange.

Description

xix, 492 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, 1 portrait; 24 cm

Subjects

• Scientific apparatus and instruments > History
• Scientific equipment

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

• List of Publications of G. L'E. Turner -- Some Uses for Catalogues of Old Scientific Instruments / J. L. Heilbron -- Interpreting the History of Scientific Instruments / A. J. Turner -- An Unknown Latin Version of an Ancient Parapegma: The Weather-forecasting Stars in the Iudicia of Pseudo-Ptolemy / Charles Burnett -- Rewriting History Through Instruments: The Secrets of a Medieval Astrolabe from Picardy / David A. King -- Astronomical Paper Instruments with Moving Parts / Owen Gingerich -- Raphael's Astronomia: Between Art and Science / Kristen Lippincott -- Scientific Instruments: An Iconographic Note / C. R. Hill -- Christina of Sweden and the Sciences / Silvio A. Bedini -- Joseph Black and his Chemical Furnace / R. G. W. Anderson -- Wheatstone's Wave Machine: A Physical Model of Light / Howard A. L. Dawes -- More than 'a mere Gazing Place': The Special Loan Exhibition and the Science Conferences of 1876 / Frank Greenaway.
• 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

0860783944

LCCN

gb 94004442

OCLC

• 30977742
• ocm30977742

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries