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
Book contents
- The Whipple Museum of the History of Science
- Frontispiece
- The Whipple Museum of the History of Science
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Sacred Astronomy? Beyond the Stars on a Whipple Astrolabe
- 2 What Were Portable Astronomical Instruments Used for in Late-Medieval England, and How Much Were They Actually Carried Around?
- 3 ‘Sundials and Other Cosmographical Instruments’: Historical Categories and Historians’ Categories in the Study of Mathematical Instruments and Disciplines
- 4 ‘That Incomparable Instrument Maker’: The Reputation of Henry Sutton
- 5 Specimens of Observation: Edward Hobson’s Musci Britannici
- 6 Ideas Embodied in Metal: Babbage’s Engines Dismembered and Remembered
- 7 Galvanometers and the Many Lives of Scientific Instruments
- 8 Buying 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
- 9 Like a Bos: The Discovery of Fake Antique Scientific Instruments at the Whipple Museum
- 10 Wanted Weeds: Environmental History in the Whipple Museum
- 11 What ‘Consul, the Educated Monkey’ Can Teach Us about Early-Twentieth-Century Mathematics, Learning, and Vaudeville
- 12 Robin Hill’s Cloud Camera: Meteorological Communication, Cloud Classification
- 13 Chicken Heads and Punnett Squares: Reginald Punnett and the Role of Visualisations in Early Genetics Research at Cambridge, 1900–1930
- 14 Stacks, ‘Pacs’, and User Hacks: A Handheld History of Personal Computing
- Appendix: Student Research Conducted on the Whipple Museum’s Collections since 1995
- Index
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 August 2019
Book contents
- The Whipple Museum of the History of Science
- Frontispiece
- The Whipple Museum of the History of Science
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Sacred Astronomy? Beyond the Stars on a Whipple Astrolabe
- 2 What Were Portable Astronomical Instruments Used for in Late-Medieval England, and How Much Were They Actually Carried Around?
- 3 ‘Sundials and Other Cosmographical Instruments’: Historical Categories and Historians’ Categories in the Study of Mathematical Instruments and Disciplines
- 4 ‘That Incomparable Instrument Maker’: The Reputation of Henry Sutton
- 5 Specimens of Observation: Edward Hobson’s Musci Britannici
- 6 Ideas Embodied in Metal: Babbage’s Engines Dismembered and Remembered
- 7 Galvanometers and the Many Lives of Scientific Instruments
- 8 Buying 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
- 9 Like a Bos: The Discovery of Fake Antique Scientific Instruments at the Whipple Museum
- 10 Wanted Weeds: Environmental History in the Whipple Museum
- 11 What ‘Consul, the Educated Monkey’ Can Teach Us about Early-Twentieth-Century Mathematics, Learning, and Vaudeville
- 12 Robin Hill’s Cloud Camera: Meteorological Communication, Cloud Classification
- 13 Chicken Heads and Punnett Squares: Reginald Punnett and the Role of Visualisations in Early Genetics Research at Cambridge, 1900–1930
- 14 Stacks, ‘Pacs’, and User Hacks: A Handheld History of Personal Computing
- Appendix: Student Research Conducted on the Whipple Museum’s Collections since 1995
- Index
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