Scientific instruments of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and their makers. Translated and edited by Mary Holbrook.

Translation of Les instruments scientifiques aux xviie et xviiie siècles.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 342-348).

Instrument-making industry in the seventeenth century -- Contributory factors in the evolution of the instrument-making industry (Economic and social factors ; Industrial and technical factors ; Major scientific problems ; The collections of philosophical instruments) -- The instrument-making industry in the eighteenth century (The evolution of optical instruments ; Surveying and astronomical instruments ; The technique of graduating the arcs and rules of instruments ; The evolution of physical instruments ; The English workshops ; The intrument industry of the Continent ; The French workshop).

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Historyof Scientific Instrments (Optical, surveying, astronomical, ) List of libraries and collections, Bibliography and index, 142 photographic illustrations (black and white)