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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Best read as individual chapters,
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This review is from: Instruments, Travel and Science: Itineraries of Precision from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
The authors make nice but grand claims about the development of instruments for science, worldwide. The book describes several cases that can be read as fascinating and important historical episodes. Like the development of accurate clocks, that could be used by travellers, especially on ships.
But I found these chapters to be rather standalone. Certainly, overall they describe the onward march of science, enabled greatly by the instruments that are the true heroes of the chapters. And they are quite well researched and written. The authors are very capable in this regard. The problem is in the attempt to spin a greater thread between the chapters. Given that each chapter was written by a separate author, this was probably to be expected. |
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Instruments, Travel and Science: Itineraries of Precision from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century by H. Otto Sibum (Hardcover - September 13, 2002)
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