How scientific instruments have changed hands / / edited by A.D. Morrison-Low, Sara J. Schechner & Paolo Brenni.
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| Superior document: | History of science and medicine library ; volume 56 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2016] 2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | History of science and medicine library ;
v. 56. History of science and medicine library. Scientific instruments and collections ; v. 5. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (271 pages) :; illustrations (some color) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.