Instruments of Science : an Historical Encyclopedia
1 volume: Illustrations, drawings, charts
Index
This interesting volume recounts the history of many scientific instruments. It includes the obvious instruments; microscope, telescope, centrifuge and seismograph, but also obsolete instruments such as the camera obscura, nautical sextant, sectors (a box invented by Galileo for use in mathematics) and slide rule, along with things that one wouldn’t think of as scientific instruments; the mouse and sun dial. It discusses instruments that have no name, but which were used for scientific purposes such as testing the strength of various materials and the hardness of an object. Each article has sources for further reading, although some of the sources are as old as the objects described; for instance several of the resources listed for the eudiometer (a failed instrument to test the air) date from the 18th century!
The academic research center for Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois.
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