| Instruments of Science: An Historical Encyclopedia Contributor(s): Bud, Robert (Editor), Warner, Deborah (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0815315619 ISBN-13: 9780815315612 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $403.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 1997 Annotation: This authoritative work on the history of scientific instruments brings together information from hundreds of primary sources and specialized studies in many languages. Written by 223 scientists, instrument designers, and historians, the Encyclopedia's 327 entries cover instruments from the beginnings of science to the present day and explore devices designed for cutting-edge research as well as routine testing. Each entry explains how a device works, how it is used, who developed it, and shows what it looks like. The Encyclopedia is the first reference work to address the great historical range of instruments and is also the first to consider applications, innovations, and costs. Because of its focus on 20th-century devices and disciplines, its coverage is particularly valuable to students and scholars of modern science and technology. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Microscopes & Microscopy - Science | Reference |
| Dewey: 502.84 |
| LCCN: 97015296 |
| Series: Garland Encyclopedias in the History of Science |
| Physical Information: 1.53" H x 7.34" W x 10.25" (3.20 lbs) 736 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This authoritative reference covers 325 scientific instruments ranging from antiquity to the present, and from the mundane to the highly sophisticated. Entries explain how they work and trace their invention, development, distribution and use. Fully illustrated and complete with bibliographies, it will be particularly useful to students and scholars of modern science and technology. Reflecting contemporary practice, it examines instruments used for testing and monitoring, as well as those used for research, and even considers a number of widely used laboratory organisms (such as drosophila and e.coli) as instruments. |