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Failed Historical Scientific Instruments: Scientific Instruments and Collections, cartea 10

Sara J. Schechner, Sofia Talas
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 11 iul 2024
Can a scientific instrument be regarded as a failure? Why and how? By shedding light on the complexity of these questions, the volume marks a step forward in the way historical scientific instruments can be analysed and displayed.
The essays show how diverse failures can be, and how the assessment of scientific devices may change over time — some surprisingly becoming more successful. In addition to studies of how technical features led to failure, the authors examine the roles played by social bias and behaviour, commercial and economic circumstances, and political factors.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789004689091
ISBN-10: 9004689095
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.53 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Scientific Instruments and Collections


Notă biografică

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.

Cuprins

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