This absorbing book challenges this fundamental notion by showing how objects themselves, specifically scientific instruments, can express knowledge.

... Scientific Apparatus Makers ) , 346 . Q of Quarter - wave Plates ( Joseph Kaplan ) , 186 . R RASHEVSKY , N .: Light - Quanta and Max- wells Equations , 472 . RAYTON , W. B .: An Improved Polari- zation Photometer , 142 . REESE , H. M ...

Bandw photographs and diagrams showcase more traditional instruments from The Science Museum, London, and the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

these. In this book, we appropriate their conception of research-technology, and ex tend it to many other phenomena which are less stable and less localized in time and space than the Zeeman/Cotton situation.

Selected from hard-to-find 19th-century sources, these 436 black-and-white engravings cover the spectrum of scientific study: prisms, gyroscopes, barometers, pendulums, astrolabes, telescopes, microscopes, and many other instruments."

Unrivalled in its coverage and unique in its hands-on approach, this guide to the design and construction of scientific apparatus is essential reading for every scientist and student of engineering, and physical, chemical, and biological ...