This collection of essays discusses the marketing of scientific and medical instruments from the eighteenth century to the First World War. It features case-stu
Scientific Instruments between East and West is a collection of essays on the transmission of knowledge about scientific instruments and the trade in such instr
At the start of the Industrial Revolution, it appeared that most scientific instruments were made and sold in London, but by the time of the Great Exhibition in
Western philosophers have traditionally concentrated on theory as the means for expressing knowledge about a variety of phenomena. This absorbing book challenge
When science’s “black boxes” are pried open, its workings become accessible. Like time-travellers into history but grounded in today’s cultures, learner