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245 0 4 _aThe Whipple Museum of the History of Science :
_bobjects and investigations, to celebrate the 75th anniversary of R.S. Whipples's gift to the University of Cambridge /
_cedited by Joshua Nall, Liba Taub, Frances Willmoth
_h[electronic resource]
260 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2019
300 _aonline resource
449 _a140504
505 _a1 - Sacred Astronomy? Beyond the Stars on a Whipple Astrolabe -- 2 - What Were Portable Astronomical Instruments Used for in Late-Medieval England, and How Much Were They Actually Carried Around? -- 3 - ‘Sundials and Other Cosmographical Instruments’: Historical Categories and Historians’ Categories in the Study of Mathematical Instruments and Disciplines --4 - ‘That Incomparable Instrument Maker’: The Reputation of Henry Sutton -- 5 - Specimens of Observation: Edward Hobson’s Musci Britannici -- 6 - Ideas Embodied in Metal: Babbage’s Engines Dismembered and Remembered -- 7 - Galvanometers and the Many Lives of Scientific Instruments -- 8 - Buying Antique Scientific Instruments at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: A Data-Driven Analysis of Lewis Evans’s and Robert Stewart Whipple’s Collecting Habits -- 9 - Like a Bos: The Discovery of Fake Antique Scientific Instruments at the Whipple Museum -- 10 - Wanted Weeds: Environmental History in the Whipple Museum -- 11 - What ‘Consul, the Educated Monkey’ Can Teach Us about Early-Twentieth-Century Mathematics, Learning, and Vaudeville -- 12 - Robin Hill’s Cloud Camera: Meteorological Communication, Cloud Classification -- 13 - Chicken Heads and Punnett Squares: Reginald Punnett and the Role of Visualisations in Early Genetics Research at Cambridge, 1900–1930 -- 14 - Stacks, ‘Pacs’, and User Hacks: A Handheld History of Personal Computing
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_xHISTORY
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856 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/9781108633628
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