ISBN10: 0860783944, ISBN13: 9780860783947, [publisher: Aldershot, Hampshire ; Brookfield, Vt. : Variorum] Hardcover First Edition xix, 492 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Contents: Electricity from Steam: Armstrong's Hydroelectric Machine in the 1840's / Willem Hackmann -- The Pendulum as the British Length Standard: A Nineteenth-Century Legal Aberration / A.D.C. Simpson -- 'A Very Artificial Workman': The Altitude Sundials of Humphrey Cole / Denys Vaughan -- An Equinoctial Ring Dial by Ralph Greatorex / A.V. Simcock -- Francis Hall's Sundial for the Blind / Jan de Graeve -- Early Navigational Instruments in Scotland: Icons and Survivals / A.D. Morrison-Low -- Equipping the Radcliffe Observatory: Thomas Hornsby and his Instrument-Makers / J.A. Bennett -- William Prout and the Urinometer: Some Interpretations / John Burnett -- Brittle Glass: A Fragile Chapter in the History of Experimental Physics / Peter de Clercq -- Frederik Kaiser and his 'Steady Boat Compass with Nightly Illumination' / Elly Dekker -- Elisa van der Ven and the Physical Laboratory of the Teyler Foundation (Haarlem), 1878-1909 / Marijn van Hoorn. A Tale of Two Instruments / Roderick Webster and Marjorie Webster -- Seventeenth-Century Simple Microscopes / Brian Bracegirdle -- The True Name of Selligue / Margarida Archinard -- Utrecht University and its Microscopes / J.C. Deiman -- The Spectaclemakers' Company and the Origins of the Optical Instrument-Making ...

Aldershot: Variorum, Date: 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, xix, 492 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine green with gold lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Rubbing to edges and corners of dust jacket. Light scuffing to dust jacket. Minor shelf wear to boards. Mild age toning to textblock. Shelved in Science. From the collection of Silvio Bedini. Bedini spent twenty five years at the Smithsonian Institution, serving as curator in the Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering in the new Museum of History and Technology (now the National Museum of American History) before serving as first Assistant Director then Deputy Director of the National Museum of History and Technology. He then served as Keeper of Rare Books at the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, a branch of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, before becoming a Historian Emeritus. He specialized in early scientific instruments. 1378963. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. 1993. Variorum ISBN 0860783944 9780860783947 [US]

ISBN10: 0860783944, ISBN13: 9780860783947, [publisher: Variorum] Hardcover 1993-12-09. Variorum. Hardcover. GOOD DJ Protective cover. Library Copy do not remove stamped on fep.
[Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1993]