Buch, Englisch, 512 Seiten, Format (B × H): 179 mm x 253 mm, Gewicht: 1162 g
Buch, Englisch, 512 Seiten, Format (B × H): 179 mm x 253 mm, Gewicht: 1162 g
ISBN: 978-0-521-86609-5
Verlag: CAMBRIDGE
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
- Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Geschichte der Psychologie
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
- Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Geschichte der Physik
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Human- und Sozialwissenschaften
- Naturwissenschaften Chemie Chemie Allgemein Geschichte der Chemie
Weitere Infos & Material
Acknowledgements; List of illustrations; Contributors; Introduction Liba Taub and Frances Willmoth; Part I: 1. Documents from the founding and early history of the Whipple Museum, compiled by Frances Willmoth; 2. The first decade of the Whipple Museum Rupert Hall; 3. A collection to be preserved Alex Keller; 4. The opening of a new gallery at the Whipple Museum David W. Dewhirst; Part II: 5. 'Braggers that by showe of their instrument win credit': the errours of Edward Worsop Jim Bennett; 6. A 'hidden' Cambridge jewel David J. Bryden; 7. Models and understanding David Chart; 8. Made to measure: some thoughts on the design of scientific instruments Richard Dunn; 9. Pictures at an exhibition: or what ivory sundials can teach an intellectual historian Penelope Gouk; 10. Making waves: a history of the wave machine Christopher Haley; 11. Nineteenth-century wave motion machines Graham Hart; 12. The legacy of Elias Allen Hester Higton; 13. An early Italian globe? A critical study of a terrestrial globe in the Whipple Museum Robert A. Jenks; 14. Reading rules: artefactual evidence for mathematics and craft in early-modern England Stephen Johnston; 15. Instruments of translation Latin Therapy Group; 16. Precision electrical instruments, 1870-1900 Kenneth Lyall; 17. Spheres and texts on spheres: the book-instrument relationship and an armillary sphere in the Whipple Museum of the History of Science Adam Mosley; 18. Representing Euclid in the eighteenth century Mike Rich; 19. Time machines Simon Schaffer; 20. Napier Shaw and the invention of the cloud chamber Richard Staley; 21. Are orreries 'Newtonian'? A consideration of the material, textual and pictorial evidence Liba Taub; 22. 'The ingenious and unwearied Mr Abraham Sharp': a transitional figure in the making of precision instruments Frances Willmoth.