Scientific instruments of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and their makers. Translated and edited by Mary Holbrook.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: Londo :, Batsford, [1972]Edition: [First English edition]Description: [vi], 361 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
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- Instruments scientifiques aux xviie et xviiie siècles. English
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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)
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