How scientific instruments have changed hands / edited by A. D. Morrison-Low, Sara J. Schechner & Paolo Brenni.
| Other author | Morrison-Low, A. D. |
| Other author | Schechner, Sara, 1957- |
| Other author | Brenni, Paolo. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017] |
| Description | xxxii, 239 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | History of science and medicine library ; volume 56 Scientific instruments and collections ; volume 5 |
| Contents | Symbiosis and style : the production, sale and purchase of instruments in the luxury markets of eighteenth-century London / Alexi Baker -- Selling by the book : British scientific trade literature after 1800 / Joshua Nall and Liba Taub -- The gentle art of persuasion : advertising instruments during Britain's industrial revolution / Alison D. Morrison-Low -- Some considerations about the prices of physics instruments in the nineteenth century / Paolo Brenni -- Mathematical instruments changing hands at world's fairs, 1851-1904 / Peggy Aldrich Kidwell -- Connections between the instrument-making trades in Great Britain and Ireland and the North American continent / Gloria Clifton -- European pocket sundials for colonial use in American territories / Sara J. Schechner -- Selling mathematical instruments in America before the printed trade catalogue / Richard L. Kremer -- Trade in medical instruments and colonialist policies between Mexico and Europe in the nineteenth century / Laura Chazaro. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2016033199 |
| ISBN | 9789004324923 (hardback : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9004324925 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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