Forty Years of Scientific Instrument Studies
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Forty Years of Scientific Instrument Studies by Sara J Schechner
This volume illustrates how scientific instrument studies have flourished over the past forty years, with chapters devoted to decades, historiography, cataloguing, exhibitions, education, national trends, and new media. Twenty vignettes illustrate historical questions addressed by close inspection of significant artefacts.
Sara J. Schechner, Ph.D. (1988), Harvard University, is Curator Emerita of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments at Harvard University, retiring in 2024 after twenty-four years of service. She has been Secretary of the Scientific Instrument Commission (2003-2013) and currently serves on the Editorial Board for the Scientific Instrument Commission’s series Scientific Instruments and Collections (SICo). She is the author of Time of Our Lives: Sundials of the Adler Planetarium (2019), co-author of Tangible Things: Making History through Objects (2015), and co-editor of Failed Historical Scientific Instruments (2024).
Richard L. Kremer, Ph.D. (1984), Harvard University, is Professor Emeritus of History at Dartmouth College, where he taught history of science and curated the institution’s collection of historic scientific instruments. He served as President of the Scientific Instrument Commission from 2018-2021, co-edited Instruments on Display (2014), co-authored Study, Measure, Experiment: Stories of Instruments at Dartmouth College (2005), and has published extensively on medieval astronomical instruments and tables.
Richard L. Kremer, Ph.D. (1984), Harvard University, is Professor Emeritus of History at Dartmouth College, where he taught history of science and curated the institution’s collection of historic scientific instruments. He served as President of the Scientific Instrument Commission from 2018-2021, co-edited Instruments on Display (2014), co-authored Study, Measure, Experiment: Stories of Instruments at Dartmouth College (2005), and has published extensively on medieval astronomical instruments and tables.
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| ISBN 13 | 9789004737570 |
| ISBN 10 | 900473757X |
| Title | Forty Years of Scientific Instrument Studies |
| Author | Sara J Schechner |
| Series | Scientific Instruments And Collections |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Brill |
| Year published | 2025-12-04 |
| Number of pages | 360 |
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