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East and West, the Common European Heritage: Proceedings of the 25th Scientific Instrument Symposium - Hardcover
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Contents: 1 East and West: Cooperation, Competition & Trade [British Scientific Instrument Makers & Transmission of Knowledge; Instruments in Early Virginia; Georg Friedrich Brander & King of Poland; Gustaw Gerlach; Adam Prazmowski; Ramsden's Workshop: Recruiting from East & West; 19th Century Scottish Lighthouse Technology in Pacific Rim; Controversy Over the Importation of Soviet Scientific Instruments to USA; Instrument from Communist Europe in Franco's Spain; Adventures of Captain John Smith, Pocahontas & Sundial; Scientific Instruments from Saxony in Petersburg; Liquefaction of Gases]; 2 From Kepler's Astronomy to 20th Century Astronomical Observatories [Telescopes of William Lassell; Meridian Instruments; Italian Astronomical Observatories; Identity of the Astronomer in 17th Century Imagery; 1876 Special Loan Exhibition; 19th Century Astronomical Lantern Slide; Radioastronomy in Germany; Tadeusz Banachiewicz]; 3 20th Century [Seismographs; Seismoscopes in Spain; Birth of the Electronic Television; Studying Cosmic Ray Physics; H.E. Edgerton's Early High Speed Cameras; Resounding Heart; Mallard & Mouse Box; Balloons & Nuclear Emulsions]; 4 Historical Laboratories [Acquisition in Context; Michal Sedziwoj; Physics Collection; Historical Laboratories; Mesmerized by Onnes; Mentora Alsina; Collection of Scientific Instruments of the University of Barcelona]; 5 Scholars, Constructors, Mechanicians [Equipping & Maintaining Trading Voyages to the Baltic; Angelo Tornaghi; True Method of Finding the Longitude at Sea; Website & First Volume of the Works & Correspondence of Giovanni Battista Amici; Ivan Kulibin]; 6 Calculating Machines & Computers [Prizes of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences; GIER; Digitizing Measurement; Certainties & Doubts in World Fair Comparisons of Computing Artifacts]; 7 Hellenic World [Databases for Scientific Instruments; Signs & Signatures on Instruments 15th-17th Century; In-existant Instruments of Ptolemy's Almagest; Antikythera Mechanism]
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- PublisherJagiellonian University Museum
- ISBN 10 8388659510
- ISBN 13 9788388659515
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages335
- EditorEwa Wyka
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East and West, the Common European Heritage: Proceedings of the 25th Scientific Instrument Symposium
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Jagiellonian University Museum, 2006
ISBN 10: 8388659510
ISBN 13: 9788388659515
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover, 335pp + 16 pages of glossy colour plates, b&w illustrations in text, NOT ex-library. Limited signs of gentle wear, book is clean with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps. Issued without a dust jacket. Contents: East & West: Cooperation, Competition & Trade: -- British Scientific Instrument Makers & Transmission of Knowledge in Europe; Instruments of Science & Technology in Early Virginia, USA, and New Historical Perspectives; Georg Friedrich Brander 1713-1783, Mechanicus in Augsburg & the King of Poland, Stanislaw August Poniatowski 1732-1798; From West to East: Gustaw Gerlach 1827-1915; From East to West: Adam Prazmowski 1821-1885; Ramsden's Workshop: Recruiting Craftsmen from East & West;19th-Century Scottish Lighthouse Technology in the Pacific Rim; Propaganda or Education? The Controversy Over the Importation of Soviet Scientific Instruments to America in 1959; Instrument from Communist Europe in Franco's Spain; Adventures of Captain John Smith, Pocahontas & a Sundial; Scientific Instruments from Saxony in Petersburg Art Collections; Liquefaction of Gases: Its History & Problems Surrounding the Discovery; / From Kepler's Astronomy to the 20th Century: Astronomical Observatories: -- Telescopes of William Lassell 1799-1880; Meridian Instruments of the Marseille Observatory; Historical Instruments in Italian Astronomical Observatories; Identity of the Astronomer in 17th Century Imagery: Instruments Used as Attributes; 1876 Special Loan Exhibition: A Global Snapshot of Astronomy?; 19th Century Astronomical Lantern Slide; Development of Radioastronomy in Germany until the Effelsberg Telescope; Tadeusz Banachiewicz 1882-1954: Inventor of Chronocinematograph; / 20th Century Instruments: -- Seismographs of the Observatorio de Cartuja, Granada, Spain. Macroseismograph Restoration; Seismoscopes in Spain; Birth of the Electronic Television: Cooperation & Competition; Studying Cosmic Ray Physics in Milan: Four Cloud Chambers, 1938-1960; Harold E. Edgerton's Early High Speed Cameras; Dr Leo Jacobsohn's Heart Sound Transmission; Mallard & Mouse Box: Prototype MRI Material from Aberdeen; Balloons & Nuclear Emulsions: Role Played by the University of Padua in 1950's European Collaborations; / Historical Laboratories: -- Acquisition of a Collection in Context: Uppsala Cabinet of Physics; 'Virtual' Laboratory of Michal Sedziwoj, Reconstructed from His Operatie Elixiris Philosophici & Andreas Libavius' Alchimia; Physics Collection of Instituto Tecnico Toscano: 20 Years of Work; University of Groningen: Historical Laboratories; Mesmerized by Onnes; Mentora Alsina: A Century of Teaching Experimental Physics in Barcelona; Collection of Scientific Instruments of the University of Barcelona Faculty of Physics; / Scholars, Constructors, Mechanicians: -- Touched, Cleaned, Repaired: Equipping & Maintaining Trading Voyages to the Baltic; Angelo Tornaghi: Migrations of a Mathematical Instrument Maker; True Method of Finding the Longitude at Sea; Website & First Volume of the Works & Correspondence of Giovanni Battista Amici 1786-1863, Optical Instrument Maker, Astronomer, Naturalist; Ivan Kulibin: Russian Leonardo or the Slave of Clockwork; / Calculating Machines & Computers as Scientific Instruments: -- St Petersburg Academy of Sciences Prizes: Joining Efforts of Russian & European Inventors in Creating of Mechanical Digital Calculating Machines; GIER: Computer Revolution: Birth of Digital Computing, Norwegian Institute of Technology 1962; Digitizing Measurement: Automating Scientific Table Making; Certainties & Doubts in World Fair Comparisons of Computing Artifacts; / Hellenic World Instruments: Study through the Replica, Virtual Experiments: -- Databases for Scientific Instruments; Signs & Signatures on Instruments of 15th-17th Century: Contribution of Instrument Makers, Patrons & Collectors; In-existant Instruments of Ptolemy's Almagest: Mysterious Error & Oscillation of the Obliquity of the Ecliptic; Antikythera Mechanism. Seller Inventory # 005243
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