Whipple Museum of the History of Science
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Whipple Museum of the History of Science
Objects and Investigations, to Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of R. S. Whipple's Gift to the University of Cambridge
Taub, Liba; Nall, Joshua; Willmoth, Frances
Cambridge University Press
08/2019
352
Dura
Inglês
9781108498272
15 a 20 dias
850
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Introduction Liba Taub and Joshua Nall; 1. Sacred astronomy? Beyond the stars on a Whipple astrolabe Seb Falk; 2. What were portable astronomical instruments used for in late-medieval England, and how much were they actually carried around? Catherine Eagleton; 3. 'Sundials and other cosmographical instruments': historical categories and historians' categories in the study of mathematical instruments and disciplines Adam Mosley; 4. 'That incomparable instrument maker': the reputation of Henry Sutton Jim Bennett; 5. Specimens of observation: Edward Hobson's Musci Britannici Anne Secord; 6. Ideas embodied in metal: Babbage's engines dismembered and remembered Simon Schaffer; 7. Galvanometers and the many lives of scientific instruments Charlotte Connelly and Hasok Chang; 8. Buying antique scientific instruments at the turn of the twentieth century: a data-driven analysis of Lewis Evans' and Robert Stewart Whipple's collecting habits Tabitha Thomas; 9. Like a Bos: the discovery of fake antique scientific instruments at the Whipple Museum Boris Jardine; 10. Wanted weeds: environmental history in the Whipple Museum Helen Curry; 11. What 'Consul, the Educated Monkey' can teach us about early twentieth-century mathematics, learning, and vaudeville Caitlin Wylie; 12. Robin Hill's cloud camera: meteorological communication, cloud classification Henry Schmidt; 13. Chicken heads and Punnett squares: Reginald Punnett and the role of visualizations in early genetics research at Cambridge, 1900-1930 Matthew Green; 14. Stacks, 'pacs', and user hacks: a handheld history of personal computing Michael F. Mcgovern.
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History of science; history of collections; material culture; scientific instruments; models; museology
Introduction Liba Taub and Joshua Nall; 1. Sacred astronomy? Beyond the stars on a Whipple astrolabe Seb Falk; 2. What were portable astronomical instruments used for in late-medieval England, and how much were they actually carried around? Catherine Eagleton; 3. 'Sundials and other cosmographical instruments': historical categories and historians' categories in the study of mathematical instruments and disciplines Adam Mosley; 4. 'That incomparable instrument maker': the reputation of Henry Sutton Jim Bennett; 5. Specimens of observation: Edward Hobson's Musci Britannici Anne Secord; 6. Ideas embodied in metal: Babbage's engines dismembered and remembered Simon Schaffer; 7. Galvanometers and the many lives of scientific instruments Charlotte Connelly and Hasok Chang; 8. Buying antique scientific instruments at the turn of the twentieth century: a data-driven analysis of Lewis Evans' and Robert Stewart Whipple's collecting habits Tabitha Thomas; 9. Like a Bos: the discovery of fake antique scientific instruments at the Whipple Museum Boris Jardine; 10. Wanted weeds: environmental history in the Whipple Museum Helen Curry; 11. What 'Consul, the Educated Monkey' can teach us about early twentieth-century mathematics, learning, and vaudeville Caitlin Wylie; 12. Robin Hill's cloud camera: meteorological communication, cloud classification Henry Schmidt; 13. Chicken heads and Punnett squares: Reginald Punnett and the role of visualizations in early genetics research at Cambridge, 1900-1930 Matthew Green; 14. Stacks, 'pacs', and user hacks: a handheld history of personal computing Michael F. Mcgovern.
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