TY  - BOOK
AU  - Daumas,Maurice
TI  - Scientific instruments of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and their makers
SN  - 0713407271
PY  - 1972///]
CY  - Londo :
PB  - Batsford
KW  - Scientific apparatus and instruments
KW  - fast
KW  - Geschichte
KW  - 1600-1800
KW  - Instruments
KW  - Astronomical
KW  - Holbrook Mary [Translator]
KW  - Scientific instrument
KW  - History
N1  - 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)
ER  -