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With over 300 entries from the ancient abacus to X-ray diffraction, as represented by a ca. 1900 photo of an X- ray machine as well as the latest research into

Selected from hard-to-find 19th-century sources, these 436 black-and-white engravings cover the spectrum of scientific study: prisms, gyroscopes, barometers, pe

Western philosophers have traditionally concentrated on theory as the means for expressing knowledge about a variety of phenomena. This absorbing book challenge

Examines the variety of instruments and equipment used in scientific research in fields such as chemistry, mechanics, meteorology, and electricity

Scientific Instruments between East and West is a collection of essays on the transmission of knowledge about scientific instruments and the trade in such instr