Book ID: CBB000201759

Scientific Instruments and Museums (2002)

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Dorikens, Maurice (Editor)


Brepols
Publication date: 2002
Language: English


Publication Date: 2002
Edition Details: Vol. 16 of Proceedings of the XXth International Congress of History of Science (Liège, 20-26 July 1997)
Physical Details: 338 pp., illus.

Description “Organised around two symposia … respectively devoted to the history of sundials and to the national inventories of scientific instruments. Separate studies on outstanding instruments, instrument-makers, as well as unknown museums and collections in Spain, Italy, Estonia, and Latin-America were also included.” (from publisher's web page)


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Authors & Contributors
Hamel, Jürgen
Schechner, Sara Jane
Archinard, Margarida
Charette, François
Davis, John
Deng, Ke-hui
Journals
Journal for the History of Astronomy
Almagest
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences
Der Globusfreund: Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift für Globen- und Instrumentenkunde
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Brill
John Lamprey
Verlag Harri Deutsch
Concepts
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Sundials
Astronomy
Time measuring instruments
Astrolabes
Technology
People
Abu Nasr Mansur ibn 'Ali ibn 'Iraq
al-Saghani, abu Hamid Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Husayn
Hartmann, Georg
Hooke, Robert
La Hire, Philippe de
Misrī, Muhammad ibn Muhammad
Time Periods
18th century
17th century
Ancient
19th century
Medieval
10th century
Places
Greece
Austria
China
Egypt
Germany
Italy
Institutions
Bakken Library and Museum (Minneapolis)
Whipple Museum of the History of Science (Cambridge, Eng.)
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