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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Albert Van Helden; Thomas L Hankins; History of Science Society. |
ISBN: | 0226848833 9780226848839 0226848841 9780226848846 |
OCLC Number: | 228665318 |
Description: | 250 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
Contents: | Telescopes and authority from Galileo to Cassini / Albert Van Helden -- Precision instruments and the demonstrative order of proof in Lavoisier's chemistry / Jan Golinski -- The ohm is where the art is : British telegraph engineers and the development of electrical standards / Bruce J. Hunt -- Terrestrial magnetism : for the glory of God and the benefit of mankind / Deborah Warner -- Stanford's supervoltage x-ray tube / Bruce Hevly -- Counting on invention : devices and black boxes in very big science / Robert W. Smith, Joseph N. Tatarewicz -- Instruments and observation at the Imperial astronomical Bureau during the Ming Dynasty / Thatcher Deane -- The ocular harpsichord of Louis-Bertrand Castel ; or, The instrument that wasn't / Thomas L. Hankins -- Machine philosophy : demonstration devices in Georgian mechanics / Simon Schaffer -- Helmholtz and the materialities of communication / Timothy Lenoir -- Instruments, nerve action, and the all-or-none principle / Robert G. Frank, Jr. |
Series Title: | Osiris (Philadelphia, Pa.), 2nd ser., v. 9. |
Responsibility: | edited by Albert Van Helden and Thomas L. Hankins. |
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