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Instruments and the Imagination /
Thomas Hankins and Robert Silverman investigate an array of instruments from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century that seem at first to be marginal to science--magnetic clocks that were said to operate by the movements of sunflower seeds, magic lanterns, ocular harpsichords (machines that...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2014]
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| Edición: | Course Book |
| Colección: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
311 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CHAPTER ONE. Instruments and Images: Subjects for the Historiography of Science
- CHAPTER TWO. Athanasius Kircher's Sunflower Clock
- CHAPTER THREE. The Magic Lantern and the Art of Demonstration
- CHAPTER FOUR. The Ocular Harpsichord of Louis-Bertrand Castel; or, The Instrument That Wasn't
- CHAPTER FIVE. The Aeolian Harp and the Romantic Quest of Nature
- CHAPTER SIX. Science since Babel: Graphs, Automatic Recording Devices, and the Universal Language of Instruments
- CHAPTER SEVEN. The Giant Eyes of Science: The Stereoscope and Photographic Depiction in the Nineteenth Century
- CHAPTER EIGHT. Vox Mechanica: The History of Speaking Machines
- CHAPTER NINE. Conclusion
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX