Author: Aaron PalmerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arithmetic
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Palmer's Pocket Scale
Author: Aaron PalmerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arithmetic
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
A History of the Logarithmic Slide Rule and Allied Instruments
Author: Florian CajoriPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Slide-rule
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Scientific Instruments on Display
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900426440X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
During their active lives, scientific instruments generally inhabit the laboratory, observatory, classroom or the field. But instruments have also lived in a wider set of venues, as objects on display. As such, they acquire new levels of meaning; their cultural functions expand. This book offers selected studies of instruments on display in museums, national fairs, universal exhibitions, patent offices, book frontispieces, theatrical stages, movie sets, and on-line collections. The authors argue that these displays, as they have changed with time, reflect changing social attitudes towards the objects themselves and toward science and its heritage. By bringing display to the center of analysis, the collection offers a new and ambitious framework for the study of scientific instruments and the material culture of science. Contributors are: Amy Ackerberg-Hastings, Silke Ackermann, Marco Beretta, Laurence Bobis, Alison Boyle, Fausto Casi, Ileana Chinnici, Suzanne Débarbat, Richard Dunn, Inga Elmqvist-Söderlund, Ingrid Jendrzejewski, Peggy A. Kidwell, Richard Kremer, Mara Miniati, Richard A. Paselk, Donata Randazzo, Steven Turner.
Engineering Series
Author: Colorado College Publication
Author: Colorado CollegePublication
Author: Colorado CollegePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Colorado College Publication
Author: Library Company of Philadelphia: 1989 Annual Report
Author: Publisher: The Library Company of Phil
ISBN: 9781422361221
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Library Company of Philadelphia: 1986 Annual Report
Author: Publisher: The Library Company of Phil
ISBN: 9781422361191
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
A History of the Logarithmic Slide Rule and Allied Instruments, and On the History of Gunter's Scale and the Slide Rule During the Seventeenth Century
Author: Florian CajoriPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The slide rule, with its many variations, has been vital to mathematics and engineering since its invention in the 17th century. Interest in this field has grown dramatically and collectors can still find much material at affordable prices. Unfortunately there has been little information available except for manufacturers manuals and catalogs, making this reprint of Cajori's classic particularly valuable. Also included with this reprint of the 1910 edition is Cajori's extensive article On the History of Gunter's Scale and the Slide Rule during the 17th Century, published by the University of California in 1920, which sets forth his subsequent findings. There is also a helpful explanatory introduction by Dr. Robert K. Otnes, editor of the Journal of the Oughtred Society