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Author:   Sara J. Schechner ,  Sofia Talas
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   10
Weight:   0.571kg
ISBN:  

9789004689091

ISBN 10:   9004689095
Pages:   250
Publication Date:   11 July 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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List of Illustrations Contributors Introduction: Failed Historical Scientific Instruments Sara J. Schechner and Sofia Talas 1. An Archive of Failed Inventions: The Museum of the Admiralty Compass Observatory Richard Dunn 2. The Diffusion Hygrometer: A Commercial Failure Jean-François Loude 3. “Extremely Poor”: An Equatorial Mount that Failed Johan Kärnfelt 4. A Telescope’s Lack of Fortune: The Newall Telescope Panagiotis Lazos and George N. Vlahakis 5. Not All Bad: Rehabilitating Phrenology in Museums Tacye Phillipson 6. Finding Way at Sea – Alternatives to the Log-Line and Sand Glass. The British Experience in the Hanoverian Era: Conservative Navigational Practice or Technological Failure? D.J. Bryden 7. The Transmission X-Ray Microscope: Super Microscope for Biology or Yet Another Niche Instrument? Andreas Junk 8. From Complex to Simple: The Example of Qibla-Indicators Razieh S. Mousavi 9. Pedro Nunes, Tycho Brahe, and Orazio Borgondio: Two Failed Schemes to Read Angular Scales? Luís Tirapicos 10. Thomas Young’s Eriometer: Wrong Time, Wrong Inventor, Wrong Users? Michelle Mercier 11. Black and White Images in a Grey Area of Failure: The Photo-Theodolite at the Royal Geographical Society in the 1920s Jane Wess 12. A Failure, an Icon or Beyond: The Cloud Chamber of the University of Padua Sofia Talas and Giulio Peruzzi 13. Failures, an Instrument Maker’s Perspective Nicolàs de Holster Index

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Sara J. Schechner is David P. Wheatland Curator of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments and Lecturer on History of Science at Harvard University. She serves on the Editorial Board for the Scientific Instrument Commission’s series, Scientific Instruments and Collections. Sofia Talas is the Curator of the Giovanni Poleni Museum, at the University of Padua.

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