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Failed Historical Scientific Instruments
Author | : Sara Schechner,Sofia Talas |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004689095 |
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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.
Failed Historical Scientific Instruments
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2024-06-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004689107 |
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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.
Instruments of Science
Author | : Robert Bud,Deborah Jean Warner |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 740 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0815315619 |
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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
Irish National Inventory of Historic Scientific Instruments
Author | : Charles Mollan |
Publsiher | : Charles Mollan |
Total Pages | : 724 |
Release | : 1995-11-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781898706052 |
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Carried out over a period of ten years, this is a listing of scientific instruments dating before 1920, preserved in many collections throughout the island of Ireland. It gives location, date, and description for each of the more than 5,000 entries, together, where appropriate, with relevant accompanying detail. It demonstrates clearly that Ireland has an important resource which hitherto had not been appreciated. It also preserves information about collections which have since been lost, sold, or otherwise dispersed.
Historical Scientific Instruments in Contemporary Education
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2021-11-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9789004499676 |
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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.
Making Instruments Count
Author | : Robert Geoffrey William Anderson,James A. Bennett,William Francis Ryan |
Publsiher | : Variorum Publishing |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : UOM:39015032437421 |
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The university has very different priorities from the salesroom, the museum from the antiques fair, but the challenge of instrument history is to integrate connoisseurship, technical insight and historical sensitivity, while not neglecting the trade institutions and practices of the makers and remaining familiar with instrument populations in both the captivity of museums and the relative freedom of the market-place. This volume is presented to Gerard Turner, who has been at the forefront of promoting instrument studies in recent years. After a twenty-five-year association with the Museum of the History of Science at Oxford, a Visiting Professorship in the History of Scientific Instruments was established for him at the Imperial College, London, in 1988, from where he has been able to increase his research in this field.
1991 NASA Authorization
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Transportation, Aviation, and Materials |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 714 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : LOC:00183668213 |
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How Scientific Instruments Have Changed Hands
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2016-09-12 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9789004324930 |
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This collection of essays discusses the marketing of scientific and medical instruments from the eighteenth century to the First World War. It features case-studies from the United Kingdom, the Americas and Europe.