Item #13088 Nineteenth-Century Scientific Instruments. Gerard L'E Turner.

Nineteenth-Century Scientific Instruments

( Berkeley and Los Angeles ): University of California Press 1984. 320 pp., 9" x 11" inches. Tan cloth boards with illustrated dust jacket. A clean copy noting some yellowing to the spine panel of the dj. Near Fine / Near Fine. Cloth. [13088]


A tremendous resource for the curator or collector on nineteenth century scientific instruments, one never far away from our desk when we are cataloguing scientific instruments for sale. Many illustrations in both color and black and white, Turner covers instruments in the following areas: Time, Weights and Measures, Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, Heat, Sound, Light, Magnetism, Chemistry, Meteorology, Surveying and Navigation, Drawing and Calculating, and Recreational Science. Turner is one of the foremost historians in the field.

Price: $150.00

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