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Title How scientific instruments have changed hands / edited by A.D. Morrison-Low, Sara J. Schechner & Paolo Brenni.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
2016

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Description 1 online resource (271 pages) : illustrations (some color)
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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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Note Description based on print version record.
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.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Morrison-Low, A. D., editor.
Schechner, Sara, 1957- editor.
Brenni, Paolo, editor.
Other Form: Print version: How scientific instruments have changed hands. Leiden : Brill, [2016] History of science and medicine library ; volume 56 9789004324923
ISBN 9789004324923 (hardback : alk. paper)
9789004324923
9789004324930 (e-book)

 
    
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