Illuminating Instruments

by Morris, Peter J. T.; Stauberman, Klaus; Collins, Martin

• ISBN13: 9780978846039
• ISBN10: 0978846036
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-10-28
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc

Summary

This 7th volume in the Artefacts series_a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution, the Deutches Museum, and the London Science Museum_looks at a number of significant instruments that were created to serve various scientific purposes. The contributors examine the roles these instruments played both as scientific devices developed to advance our knowledge of the world and as cultural artifacts manufactured and used in specific settings.

Table of Contents

Series Preface	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
Instruments In Practice
Instrument and Image: Inside the Nineteenth-Century Scientific Lantern Slide	p. 3
The Enlightened Microscope: Working with Eighteenth-Century Solar Microscopes	p. 19
Instruments In Industry
Refractometers and Industrial Analysis	p. 41
Regional Styles in Pesticide Analysis: Coulson, Lovelock, and the Detection of Organochlorine Insecticides	p. 53
Instruments in the Museum
Hard Times: The Difficult Lives of Three Instruments in the Museum	p. 73
Why Display? Representing Holography in Museum Collections	p. 95
Inside the Atom: Two Sides of a Story	p. 115
Looking into (the) Matter: Scientific Artifacts and Atomistic Iconography	p. 131
Instrument Museums and Collections	p. 157
Select Bibliography	p. 163
Index	p. 165
About the Contributors	p. 173
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