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Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

Instruments of Science by Robert Bud (Editor); Deborah Warner (Editor)
Publication Date: 1997

Astronomical Instruments

Monks, Manuscripts and Sundials by Catherine Eagleton
Publication Date: 2010
Origins of the Telescope by Albert Van Helden (Editor); Huib Zuidervaart (Editor); Rob van Gent (Editor); Sven Dupré (Editor)
Publication Date: 2011
Renaissance astrolabes and their makers

Microscopy

The microscope and the eye : a history of reflections, 1740-1870 by Jutta Schickore
Publication Date: 2007
The microscope in the Dutch Republic : the shaping of discovery by Edward G. Ruestow
Publication Date: 1996
The quest for the invisible : microscopy in the Enlightenment by Marc. Ratcliff
Publication Date: 2009

Optics & Instruments

Baroque Science by Ofer Gal; Raz Chen-Morris
Publication Date: 2013
Galileo's Glassworks by Eileen Reeves
Publication Date: 2008
Influences : art, optics, and astrology in the Italian Renaissance by Mary Quinlan-McGrath
Publication Date: 2013
The Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope by Samuel Y. Edgerton
Publication Date: 2009
Painting the Heavens by Eileen Reeves
Publication Date: 1999

Overviews & Introductory Works

Scientific Instruments, 1500-1900: An Introduction by Gerard L'Estrange Turner (Contribution by)
Publication Date: 1998

Instruments & Science

The Body as Object and Instrument of Knowledge: Embodied Empiricism in Early Modern Science by Ofer Gal (Editor); Charles T. Wolfe (Editor)
Publication Date: 2010
Science, Scientific Instruments and Travel by Marie Noëlle Bourget (Editor); Christian Licoppe (Editor); H. Otto Sibum (Editor)
Publication Date: 2002

Instruments on Display

Science and Spectacle in the European Enlightenment by Christine Blondel; Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent (Editor)
Publication Date: 2008
Science for a polite society : gender, culture, and the demonstration of enlightenment by Geoffrey V. Sutton
Publication Date: 1997

Calculating Instruments

A History of the Logarithmic Slide Rule and Allied Instruments by Florian Cajori; Robert K. Otnes (Introduction by)
Publication Date: 1994
Mathematical instruments in antiquity and the Middle Ages : an introduction by Anthony John Turner
Publication Date: 1994

Experimentation

Cabinets of Experimental Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Europe by Giorgio Strano (Contribution by); Jim Bennett (Volume Editor); Sofia Talas (Volume Editor)
Publication Date: 2013
Instruments and Experimentation in the History of Chemistry by Frederic L. Holmes (Editor); Trevor H. Levere (Editor)
Publication Date: 2000
Scientific instruments and experimental philosophy, 1550-1850 by Gerard L'Estrange Turner
Publication Date: 1990
The Uses of Experiment by David Gooding (Editor); Trevor Pinch (Editor); Simon Schaffer (Editor)
Publication Date: 1989