Illuminating Instruments (engl.)

This seventh volume in the Artefacts series — a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution, the Deutsches Museum, and the London Science Museum — sheds new light on scientific instruments ranging from the solar microscope in the eighteenth century to the electron capture detector in the 1960s. The contributors examine instruments' roles in different contexts, from lecture demonstrations to commercial laboratories, as devices used to advance knowledge and also as cultural artifacts.

J. T. Morris, K. Staubermann: 2010
172 Pages, 54 ill.
Hardcover