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

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. 313 - 322
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019
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Appendix: Student Research Conducted on the Whipple Museum’s Collections since 1995

1995

  • ‘Nineteenth-century wave motion machines’, MPhil essay (Wh.2007; Wh.3747; Wh.4517; Wh.4558).

1996

  • ‘How late is late medieval? Some preliminary notes on an armillary sphere in the Whipple collection’, MPhil essay (Wh.0336).

  • ‘Educating the astronomer: the use and collection of gothic teaching instruments’, MPhil dissertation (Wh.0336).

1997

  • ‘Making waves: a history of the wave machine’, MPhil essay (Wh.2007; Wh.3747; Wh.4517).

  • ‘Representing Euclid in the eighteenth century’, MPhil essay (Wh.0368).

  • ‘Circles of heaven: an unusual silver celestial planisphere in the Whipple Museum’, Pt II dissertation (Wh.1762).

1998

  • ‘The 19th-century papier-mâché models of human and comparative anatomy by Louis Thomas Jérôme Auzoux’, MPhil essay (various Auzoux models in the Whipple collection).

  • ‘Mathematical models and the visual expression of theory’, MPhil essay (various mathematical models in the Whipple collection).

  • ‘Aspects of a Korean astronomical screen of the mid-eighteenth century from the Royal Palace of the Yi Dynasty (Choson Kingdom, 1392 to 1910)’, Pt II dissertation (Wh.0935).

  • ‘Navicula de Venetiis: construction and characteristics’, Pt II dissertation (Wh.0731; Wh.5902).

1999

  • ‘Geography as a game: the case of a puzzle globe’, MPhil essay (Wh.4608).

  • ‘A study of a nineteenth century jigsaw globe from the Whipple collection’, Pt II dissertation (Wh.4608).

2000

  • ‘The decline and fall of the astrolabe’, MPhil essay (various astrolabes in the Whipple collection).

  • ‘On the use of the globe: the Earl of Castlemaine’s English Globe and Restoration mathematics’, MPhil essay (Wh.1466).

  • ‘The Victorian scientific instrument-maker’s trade catalogue: marketing & patronage’, MPhil essay (various trade and sales literature in the Whipple collection).

  • ‘A case study of two armillary spheres made by Richard Glynne, 1715 and 1725’, MPhil essay (Wh.0784; Wh.0785).

  • ‘Representing time and motion: Sekiya, the Gilbreths, and chronophotographic art’, MPhil essay (Wh.3461).

  • ‘The Duddell oscillograph: making waves visible’, MPhil essay (Wh.4328; Wh.3331).

  • ‘An early Italian globe? A critical study of a terrestrial globe in the Whipple Museum’, MPhil essay (Wh.0365).

  • ‘An eighteenth century Japanese celestial globe’, MPhil essay (Wh.5617).

  • ‘Study of an astrological astrolabe in the Whipple collection’, Pt II dissertation (Wh.4552).

  • ‘Bearing the heavens: astronomers, instruments, and the communication of astronomy in early-modern Europe’, PhD thesis (Wh.0336)

2001

  • ‘Phrenology goes bust!: the material culture of a nineteenth century popular science’, MPhil essay (Wh.2744; Wh.4618).

  • ‘Sounding the depths: trials and tribulations in the development of sounding machines’, MPhil essay (Wh.2970).

2002

  • ‘A casket of useful knowledge: study of a case of geological specimens in the Whipple Museum’, MPhil essay (Wh.3395).

  • ‘Thoughts relating to a study of the British Drug Houses’ capillator (1924)’, MPhil essay (Wh.5244).

  • ‘The many “odd things which a microscopist delights to own”: aspects of nineteenth-century popular microscopy’, MPhil essay (Wh.1844).

  • ‘Some preliminary notes on a manuscript in the Whipple collection’, MPhil essay (Wh.5358).

  • ‘Writing the history of astronomy: Flamsteed and Sherburne’, Pt II dissertation (E268).

2003

  • ‘Reforming mathematics: late nineteenth century mathematical models’, MPhil dissertation (various mathematical models in the Whipple collection).

  • ‘Nineteenth century vacuum techniques and applications’, MSc dissertation (various air pumps in the Whipple collection).

  • ‘Embodying the abstract: mathematical models in Cambridge’, MPhil essay (various mathematical models in the Whipple collection).

  • ‘The mind of the frontispiece: myth, meaning and motivation in Sherburne’s Manilius’, Pt II dissertation (E268).

  • ‘Sherburne’s library and its relation to his history of astronomers’, Pt II dissertation (E268).

  • ‘A study of the Lusuerg instruments in the Whipple Museum’, Pt II dissertation (Wh.0323; Wh.0865; Wh.1609; Wh.1612).

2004

  • ‘Using globes and celestial planispheres in Restoration England’, PhD thesis (Wh.1466; Wh.1762).

  • ‘The social life of observatories and their scientific instruments from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries’, MA dissertation (various astronomical instruments in the Whipple collection).

  • ‘“Every Boy & Girl a Scientist”: construments and the domestication of scientific instruments in interwar Britain’, MPhil essay (Wh.4565).

  • ‘Instrument-making families’, Pt II dissertation (various instruments in the Whipple collection).

  • ‘Why make fakes?’, Pt II dissertation (Wh.0226; Wh.0306; Wh.0365; Wh.0563; Wh.1148; Wh.1149; Wh.1639).

  • ‘Instruments in context: telling the time in England, 1350–1500’, PhD thesis (Wh.0731; Wh.1264; Wh.5902).

2005

  • ‘Shagreen, science and status: a study of the materials used to make early telescopes’, Pt II dissertation (Wh.2662; Wh.0251).

2006

  • ‘Papier-mâché flowers, fruits and seeds: the botanical models of Louis Thomas Jerôme Auzoux’, MPhil essay (various botanical models by Auzoux in the Whipple collection).

  • ‘Cultures of science, magic and masculinity in twentieth-century toy chemistry sets’, MPhil essay (various chemistry sets in the Whipple collection).

  • ‘The use of instruments in propagating Newtonianism: the Musser Copernican Planetarium’, MPhil essay (Wh.5812).

  • ‘Are orreries “Newtonian”? A consideration of the material, textual and pictorial evidence’, Pt II dissertation (Wh.1275).

  • ‘Touching numbers: the pocket electronic calculator in advertising’, MPhil essay (Francis Hookham Collection of Hand Held Electronic Calculators).

2007

  • ‘The images that accompany The Sphere of Marcus Manillius by Edward Sherburne’, Pt II dissertation (E268).

  • ‘Mathematics in motion: understanding Olivier’s movable hyperbolic paraboloid model’, MPhil essay (Wh.5795).

2008

  • ‘Mogg’s Celestial Sphere (1812): a catalogue of conversation’, MPhil essay (Wh.5620).

  • ‘Remodeling the electrocardiograph at the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company’, MPhil essay (various ECG machines and related ephemera by the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company).

  • ‘Practical mathematics in one foot: the story of a slide rule from the 18th century’, MPhil essay (Wh.1451).

  • ‘Finding out about an X-ray crystallography camera’, MPhil essay (Wh.3469).

  • ‘Models of the eye in the Whipple Museum’, Pt II dissertation (Wh.2037; Wh.5825; Wh.6068; Wh.6194; Wh.6202).

  • ‘An exploration of a seventeenth-century terrestrial globe held in the Whipple Museum collection’, Pt II dissertation (Wh.2691).

2009

  • ‘Teacher, toy or calculator? Reflections of mathematics, education and society in a 20th-century American object’, MPhil essay (Wh.5821).

  • ‘Botany of the air: experiments, airships and agriculture in 1930’, MPhil essay (Wh.5826).

  • ‘Materializing Edinburgh in Egypt: the five inch Great Pyramid standard of Charles Piazzi Smyth’, MPhil essay (Wh.1155).

  • ‘Materials for a history of science in Cambridge: meanings of collections and the 1944 scientific instrument exhibition at the University of Cambridge’, MPhil dissertation (history of the Whipple Museum and its collection).

  • ‘Long in the tooth: a study of a papier-mache set of horses’ teeth’, MPhil essay (Wh.6135).

  • ‘The Edinburgh Stereoscopic Atlas of Anatomy (1905–6): anatomical representation between two and three dimensions’, MPhil essay (Wh.6247).

  • ‘Designer nature: the papier-mâché botanical teaching models of Dr. Auzoux in nineteenth-century France, Great Britain, and America’, PhD thesis (various botanical models by Auzoux in the Whipple collection).

2010

  • ‘Telescopic tracings: astronomy, art, and the Varley family’, MPhil essay (Wh.0069).

  • ‘Cube roots: A. H. Frost’s model of a magic cube in the Whipple Museum’, MPhil essay (Wh.1251).

  • ‘Robin Hill’s cloud camera: an analysis of the development of the fisheye lens at Cambridge University’, MPhil essay (Wh.1635; Wh.2170; Wh.4416; Wh5732).

  • ‘Modelling nature: the case of the Whipple Museum’s pomological models’, MPhil essay (Wh.6267).

2011

  • ‘“The art in science and the science in art”: glass models of flowers and fungi’, MPhil essay (Wh.5826).

2012

  • ‘Something in the world: looking into a Spanish globe’, MPhil essay (Wh.5892).

  • ‘Negretti & Zambra’s scientific instruments: a new dimension to the Victorian culture of travel’, Pt III essay (various instruments and sales literature by Negretti & Zambra in the Whipple collection).

  • ‘Bumps across borders: towards a transnational historiography of phrenology c. 1838’, MPhil essay (various objects and ephemera relating to phrenology in the Whipple collection).

  • ‘Astrolabes in context: a reappraisal of medieval astronomical instruments’, MPhil dissertation (Wh.1264).

  • ‘Sounding in silence: the mechanics of discipline in the early nineteenth-century Royal Navy’, MPhil essay (Wh.2970).

  • ‘Philips’ Popular Manikin: the culture of flap anatomies around 1900’, MPhil essay (Wh.5852).

2013

  • ‘Playing with the eyes: a comparative history of two rare stereoscopic instruments’, MPhil essay (Wh.2902; Wh.2117).

  • ‘Alexander Crum Brown’s knitted mathematical models’, MPhil essay (Wh.4469; Wh.4470).

  • ‘Models as mathematics: intellectual functions of physical models in nineteenth-century mathematical practice’, MPhil essay (Wh.5175).

  • ‘The Edinburgh stereoscopic atlas of anatomy and anatomy teaching in medical schools, c. 1905–1930’, MPhil essay (Wh.6247).

  • ‘Discipline and pedagogy: molecular model kits and the doing of synthetic organic chemistry’, MPhil essay (Wh.5815).

  • ‘Kurt Ziesing’s “Tectonic Globe of the Earth”: a case of tectonics without plates’, MPhil essay (Wh.6383).

  • ‘An early nineteenth-century “museum microscope” and cultures of collecting’, Pt III dissertation (Wh.0200).

  • ‘News from Mars: transatlantic mass media and the practice of new astronomy’, PhD thesis (Wh.1264; Wh.6067; Wh.6211; Wh.6238; Wh.6604; Wh.6605).

2014

  • ‘Stacks, pacs, and system hacks: handheld calculators as an alternative history of personal computing’, MPhil essay (Francis Hookham Collection of Hand Held Electronic Calculators).

  • ‘Robert S. Whipple, as collector, donor and historian (1871–1953)’, Pt III dissertation (history of the Whipple Museum and its collection).

  • ‘Models of authority: the place of geological models in the visual language of geology’, Pt III dissertation (Wh.1581; Wh.6529).

  • ‘“Educated at the shrine of nature”: Eliza Brightwen’s Bible Album and the study of natural theology’, Pt III essay (Wh.6517).

  • ‘Men, mines, and machines: Robert Were Fox, the dip circle and the Cornish system’, Pt III dissertation (Wh.6538).

2015

  • ‘The teaching diagrams of John Stevens Henslow: botany in 19th-century Cambridge’, MPhil essay (sixty-six botanical teaching diagrams by Henslow in the Whipple collection).

  • ‘Logic, labour, and organisation: establishing EDSAC in Cambridge’, MPhil essay (Wh.5901).

  • ‘Colour values: Joseph Lovibond’s Tintometer and the scientific meanings of vision’, MPhil essay (Wh.4521; T338).

  • ‘The harmonograph and its locations in late Victorian Britain: public display and laboratory settings’, Pt III essay (Wh.2033; Wh.6243).

2016

  • ‘Cantabrigian collaborative commercialisation: collaborations between Cambridge University scientists and scientific instrument manufacturers, circa 1890–1960’, MPhil dissertation (various scientific instruments in the Whipple collection).

  • ‘Hill’s cloud camera in the Whipple Museum: meteorological communication, cloud classification’, MPhil essay (Wh.1635; Wh.2170; Wh.4416; Wh5732).

  • ‘The philosophical foundation of Maxwell’s induction model’, MPhil essay (Wh.2455).

  • ‘Using historical microscopes to understand microscopic anatomical observations by Marcello Malpighi and Nehemiah Grew’, MPhil essay (Wh.0211).

  • ‘The Morden, Berry and Lea terrestrial globe (c. 1683)’, MPhil essay (Wh.2691).

  • ‘“The whole matter of interference microscopes is … becoming rather complex”: Sir Andrew Huxley and the design and dissemination of his custom interference microscope’, MPhil essay (E519; Wh.6574).

  • ‘Signpost to a forgotten science: Stokes’s Capital Mnemonical Globe (1870s)’, MPhil essay (Wh.6600).

  • ‘Charles Elcock and the Postal Microscopical Society: a nineteenth-century scientific community’, MPhil essay (Wh.6601).

  • ‘Things of science: science kits and educating young scientists 1940–1980’, Pt II dissertation (Wh.6615).

2017

  • ‘Unpacking boxes in British maritime history (18th–19th century)’, MPhil essay (various instrument boxes and packing crates in the Whipple collection).

  • ‘A Korean astronomical screen at the Whipple Museum: parsing a composite cosmography’, MPhil dissertation (Wh.0935).

  • ‘False measures: seventeenth-century English gauging instruments’, MPhil essay (Wh.6239).

  • ‘The moonshot Briton and the media: Francis Bacon’s hydrogen–oxygen fuel cell’, MPhil essay (Wh.6081).

2018

  • ‘Wollaston hypsometers vs. mountain barometers in nineteenth-century surveying’, MPhil essay (Wh.2883; Wh.2890).

  • ‘(Un)folding proteins: Courtaulds chemical models, British industrial fibre development, and the search for the α-helix’, MPhil essay (Wh.5815).

  • ‘Collecting habits and valuable antique scientific instruments: what can annotated sales catalogues tell us?’, Pt III essay (history of the Whipple Museum and its collection).

  • ‘Characterising collections: on the preservation of old scientific apparatus at the Cavendish Laboratory and the Whipple Museum, Cambridge’, Pt III dissertation (history of the Whipple Museum and its collection).

  • ‘Chicken heads & Punnett squares: Reginald Punnett and the role of visualization in early genetics research, Cambridge, 1900–1930’, MPhil essay (Wh.6547).

  • ‘Classifying a calculator of cranial categorisation: investigating knowledge claims embedded in Professor Arthur Thomson’s trigonometer’, MPhil essay (Wh.6638).

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