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x, 174 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
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Artefacts series ; v. 7.
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| Note |
Proceedings of a meeting held in Oct. 2004 at the University Museum in Utrecht titled "Scientific instruments as artefacts: shiny objects and black boxes," co-sponsored by the Deutsches Museum, Science Museum, and the Smithsonian Institution. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Instrument and image : inside the nineteenth-century scientific lantern slide / Klaus Staubermann -- The enlightened microscope : working with eighteenth-century solar microscopes / Peter Herring -- Refractometers and industrial analysis / Deborah Jean Warner -- Regional styles in pesticide analysis : Coulson, Lovelock, and the detection of organochlorine insecticides / Peter J.T. Morris -- Hard times : the difficult lives of three instruments in the museum / Christian Sichau -- Why display? Representing holography in museum collections / Sean F. Johnston -- Inside the atom : two sides of a story / Jane Wess -- Looking into (the) matter : scientific artifacts and atomistic iconography / Arne Schirrmacher -- Instrument museums and collections / Klaus Staubermann. |
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Scientific apparatus and instruments -- Congresses.
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Science and civilization -- Congresses.
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Science -- History -- Congresses.
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Technology -- History -- Congresses.
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| Alternate Author |
Morris, Peter J. T. (Peter John Turnbull), 1956-
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Staubermann, K. B. (Klaus B.)
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