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Instruments and the imagination
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Instruments and the imagination

Author: Thomas L Hankins; Robert J Silverman
Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1995.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Thomas L Hankins; Robert J Silverman
ISBN: 0691029970 9780691029979
OCLC Number: 32131326
Description: xiv, 337 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Instruments and images: subjects for the historiography of science --
Athanasius Kircher's sunflower clock --
The magic lantern and the art of demonstration --
The ocular harpsichord of Louis-Bertrand Castel; or, the instrument that wasn't --
The Aeolian harp and the romantic quest of nature --
Science since Babel: graphs, automatic recording devices, and the universal language of instruments --
The giant eyes of science: the stereoscope and photographic depiction in the nineteenth century --
Vox mechanica: the history of speaking machines --
Conclusion.
Responsibility: Thomas L. Hankins and Robert J. Silverman.
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