Elizabethan Instrument Makers - The Origins of the London Trade in Precision Instrument Making

About the author

Gerard L'E Turner is Senior Research Associate at the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford. He is one of the UK's foremost authorities on scientific instruments, and has been the recipient of a number of awards and prizes.

Summary

The first part of this book describes the development of the trade in scientific instruments in Elizabethan London. In the second part, the author describes in detail the provenance and context of all the existing scientific instruments from this period. Highly illustrated throughout, this book is a fascinating and scholarly study of a neglected period.

Additional text

provides illuminating studies of individual instrument types, studies that frequently break new ground in their depth and thoroughness ... the book will be the essential work of reference on the topic for decades to come, and no library that covers the history of science or technology should be without a copy ... an example of how the data locked up in material culture can be realized and a richer vista of the first Elizabethan age opened to view.

Product details

• Authors: Gerard L'E Turner, Gerard L'E. Turner
• Publisher: Oxford Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.11.2000
• EAN: 9780198565666
• ISBN: 978-0-19-856566-6
• Dimensions: 196 mm x 255 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 897 g
• Illustrations: frontispiece, 8 pp colour plates, numerous halftones
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; London, Greater London, SCIENCE / History, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Cartography, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Manufacturing, SCIENCE / Scientific Instruments, SCIENCE / Laboratory Techniques, History of Science, Cartography, map-making & projections, Scientific equipment, experiments & techniques, Manufacturing industries, Cartography, map-making and projections, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, Scientific equipment, experiments and techniques