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Title How scientific instruments have changed hands / edited by A.D. Morrison-Low, Sara J. Schechner & Paolo Brenni
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xxxii, 239 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Series History of science and medicine library ; volume 56
Scientific instruments and collections ; volume 5
History of science and medicine library ; v. 56.
History of science and medicine library. Scientific instruments and collections ; v. 5.
Contents Symbiosis and style : the production, sale and purchase of instruments in the luxury markets of eighteenth-century London / Alexi Baker -- Selling by the book : British scientific trade literature after 1800 / Joshua Nall and Liba Taub -- The gentle art of persuasion : advertising instruments during Britain's industrial revolution / Alison D. Morrison-Low -- Some considerations about the prices of physics instruments in the nineteenth century / Paolo Brenni -- Mathematical instruments changing hands at world's fairs, 1851-1904 / Peggy Aldrich Kidwell -- Connections between the instrument-making trades in Great Britain and Ireland and the North American continent / Gloria Clifton -- European pocket sundials for colonial use in American territories / Sara J. Schechner -- Selling mathematical instruments in America before the printed trade catalogue / Richard L. Kremer -- Trade in medical instruments and colonialist policies between Mexico and Europe in the nineteenth century / Laura Chazaro
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Scientific apparatus and instruments -- History -- 18th century
Scientific apparatus and instruments -- History -- 19th century
Scientific apparatus and instruments -- History -- 20th century
Scientific apparatus and instruments -- Marketing -- History
SCIENCE -- General.
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Scientific apparatus and instruments -- Marketing
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Morrison-Low, A. D., editor.
Schechner, Sara, 1957- editor.
Brenni, Paolo, editor.
LC no. 2016036426
ISBN 9789004324930
9004324933