Book ID: CBB000651603

Instruments of Mystery (2004)

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Description On the difficulties of translating into English three Latin texts on unusual instruments: a planetary instrument, a device for extracting a mandrake root, and a code transmitter.


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Review Higton, Hester (2006) Review of "Instruments of Mystery". British Journal for the History of Science (p. 286). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Langermann, Y. Tzvi
Jardine, Boris
Gianfranco Crupi
Krisztina Szilágyi
Rodríguez-Arribas, Josefina
Willmoth, Frances
Concepts
Manuscripts
Translations
Medicine
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Primary literature (historical sources)
Latin language
Time Periods
Medieval
Early modern
Ancient
19th century
20th century
18th century
Places
Spain
England
Catalonia (Spain)
Aragon (Spain)
Palestine
Cambridge (England)
Institutions
Whipple Museum of the History of Science (Cambridge, Eng.)
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