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Hankins / Silverman Instruments and the Imagination
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 311, 352 Seiten
Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6411-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
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Acknowledgments
Ch. 1 Instruments and Images: Subjects for the Historiography of Science 3
Ch. 2 Athanasius Kircher's Sunflower Clock 14
Ch. 3 The Magic Lantern and the Art of Demonstration 37
Ch. 4 The Ocular Harpsichord of Louis-Bertrand Castel; or, The Instrument That Wasn't 72
Ch. 5 The Aeolian Harp and the Romantic Quest of Nature 86
Ch. 6 Science since Babel: Graphs, Automatic Recording Devices, and the Universal Language of Instruments 113
Ch. 7 The Giant Eyes of Science: The Stereoscope and Photographic Depiction in the Nineteenth Century 148
Ch. 8 Vox Mechanica: The History of Speaking Machines 178
Ch. 9 Conclusion 221
Notes 233
Bibliography 287
Index 325
