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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2019

Edited by
Joshua Nall ,
Liba Taub  and
Frances Willmoth
Joshua Nall
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Liba Taub
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Frances Willmoth
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge

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The Whipple Museum of the History of Science
Objects and Investigations, to Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of R. S. Whipple's Gift to the University of Cambridge
 , pp. v - vi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019
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Contents

  1. List of Illustrations

  2. List of Contributors

  3. Acknowledgements

  4. Introduction

    liba taub and joshua nall

  5. 1Sacred Astronomy? Beyond the Stars on a Whipple Astrolabe

    seb falk

  6. 2What Were Portable Astronomical Instruments Used for in Late-Medieval England, and How Much Were They Actually Carried Around?

    catherine eagleton

  7. 3‘Sundials and Other Cosmographical Instruments’: Historical Categories and Historians’ Categories in the Study of Mathematical Instruments and Disciplines

    adam mosley

  8. 4‘That Incomparable Instrument Maker’: The Reputation of Henry Sutton

    jim bennett

  9. 5Specimens of Observation: Edward Hobson’s Musci Britannici

    anne secord

  10. 6Ideas Embodied in Metal: Babbage’s Engines Dismembered and Remembered

    simon schaffer

  11. 7Galvanometers and the Many Lives of Scientific Instruments

    charlotte connelly and hasok chang

  12. 8Buying Antique Scientific Instruments at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: A Data-Driven Analysis of Lewis Evans’s and Robert Stewart Whipple’s Collecting Habits

    tabitha thomas

  13. 9Like a Bos: The Discovery of Fake Antique Scientific Instruments at the Whipple Museum

    boris jardine

  14. 10Wanted Weeds: Environmental History in the Whipple Museum

    helen Anne curry

  15. 11What ‘Consul, the Educated Monkey’ Can Teach Us about Early Twentieth-Century Mathematics, Learning, and Vaudeville

    caitlin Donahue wylie

  16. 12Robin Hill’s Cloud Camera: Meteorological Communication, Cloud Classification

    henry schmidt

  17. 13Chicken Heads and Punnett Squares: Reginald Punnett and the Role of Visualisations in Early Genetics Research at Cambridge, 1900–1930

    matthew green

  18. 14Stacks, ‘Pacs’, and User Hacks: A Handheld History of Personal Computing

    michael f. mcgovern

  19. Appendix:Student Research Conducted on the Whipple Museum’s Collections since 1995

  20. Index

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  • Contents
  • Edited by Joshua Nall, University of Cambridge, Liba Taub, University of Cambridge, Frances Willmoth, University of Cambridge
  • Book: The Whipple Museum of the History of Science
  • Online publication: 19 August 2019
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  • Online publication: 19 August 2019
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  • Contents
  • Edited by Joshua Nall, University of Cambridge, Liba Taub, University of Cambridge, Frances Willmoth, University of Cambridge
  • Book: The Whipple Museum of the History of Science
  • Online publication: 19 August 2019
Available formats
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