Illuminating Instruments

Zusatztext Illuminating Instruments is a remarkable collection of insightful essays on the difficult task of exhibiting scientific instruments in museums. The volume is especially intriguing in its ability to reconstruct the function and historical context of diverse instruments! while making these often complex and arcane apparatuses understandable to a large audience. The editors understand well that scientific progress does not occur in a vacuum! and they develop in this book an outstanding model for the presentation of the material and cultural history of scientific instruments! experimental apparatuses! and laboratory life. -Paolo Galluzzi Informationen zum Autor Edited by Peter Morris and Klaus Staubermann Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Morris, Peter (EDT)/ Staubermann Morris, Klaus Staubermann
• Assisted by: Peter Morris (Editor), Klaus Staubermann (Editor)
• Publisher: Smithsonian books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2015
• EAN: 9781935623755
• ISBN: 978-1-935623-75-5
• No. of pages: 184
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 253 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Artefacts: Studies in the Hist; Artefacts: Studies in the History of Science and Technology; Artefacts: Studies in the History of Science and Technology; Artefacts: Studies in the Hist
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)