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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Hankins, Thomas L. (Autor), Silverman, Robert J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1995]
Temas:
Scientific apparatus and instruments > Europe > History.
Science > Europe > History.
Science > Historiography.
Science > Methodology.
Creative ability in science.
Appareils et instruments scientifiques > Europe > Histoire.
Sciences > Europe > Histoire.
Sciences > Méthodologie.
Créativité en sciences.
SCIENCE > History.
SCIENCE > General.
Creative ability in science
Science
Science > Historiography
Science > Methodology
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Europe
History
Acceso en línea: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

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