How scientific instruments have changed hands

Symbiosis and style : the production, sale and purchase of instruments in the luxury markets of eighteenth-century London / Alexi Baker -- Selling by the book : British scientific trade literature after 1800 / Joshua Nall and Liba Taub -- The gentle art of persuasion : advertising instruments during...

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Körperschaft: ICHST (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Morrison-Low, Alison D. (HerausgeberIn), Schechner, Sara J. (HerausgeberIn), Brenni, Paolo (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Leiden, Boston Brill 2017
Schriftenreihe:History of science and medicine library volume 56
History of science and medicine library Scientific instruments and collections volume 5
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Zusammenfassung:Symbiosis and style : the production, sale and purchase of instruments in the luxury markets of eighteenth-century London / Alexi Baker -- Selling by the book : British scientific trade literature after 1800 / Joshua Nall and Liba Taub -- The gentle art of persuasion : advertising instruments during Britain's industrial revolution / Alison D. Morrison-Low -- Some considerations about the prices of physics instruments in the nineteenth century / Paolo Brenni -- Mathematical instruments changing hands at world's fairs, 1851-1904 / Peggy Aldrich Kidwell -- Connections between the instrument-making trades in Great Britain and Ireland and the North American continent / Gloria Clifton -- European pocket sundials for colonial use in American territories / Sara J. Schechner -- Selling mathematical instruments in America before the printed trade catalogue / Richard L. Kremer -- Trade in medical instruments and colonialist policies between Mexico and Europe in the nineteenth century / Laura Chazaro
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Vorwort: "XXIII International Congress of History of Science and Technology held in Budapest in July 2009"
Beschreibung:XXXII, 239 Seiten
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25 cm
ISBN:9789004324923
978-90-04-32492-3
9004324925
90-04-32492-5