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Making Instruments Count: Essays on Historical Scientific Instruments Presented to Gerard L'Estrange Turner
These studies in honour of Gerard Turner cover the history of old scientific instruments. Specific mechanisms described include a medieval astrolabe from Picardy, Black's chemical furnace, a sundial for the blind and astronomical clocks. Inventors, writers and innovators are also covered.
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.
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.
492 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1993
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