The Whipple Museum of the History of Science
Objects and Investigations, to Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of R. S. Whipple’s Gift to the University of Cambridge
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The Whipple Museum of the History of Science Objects and Investigations, to Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of R. S. Whipple's Gift to the University of Cambridge
Book contents
- The Whipple Museum of the History of Science
- Frontispiece
- The Whipple Museum of the History of Science
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Sacred Astronomy? Beyond the Stars on a Whipple Astrolabe
- 2 What Were Portable Astronomical Instruments Used for in Late-Medieval England, and How Much Were They Actually Carried Around?
- 3 ‘Sundials and Other Cosmographical Instruments’: Historical Categories and Historians’ Categories in the Study of Mathematical Instruments and Disciplines
- 4 ‘That Incomparable Instrument Maker’: The Reputation of Henry Sutton
- 5 Specimens of Observation: Edward Hobson’s Musci Britannici
- 6 Ideas Embodied in Metal: Babbage’s Engines Dismembered and Remembered
- 7 Galvanometers and the Many Lives of Scientific Instruments
- 8 Buying Antique Scientific Instruments at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: A Data-Driven Analysis of Lewis Evans’s and Robert Stewart Whipple’s Collecting Habits
- 9 Like a Bos: The Discovery of Fake Antique Scientific Instruments at the Whipple Museum
- 10 Wanted Weeds: Environmental History in the Whipple Museum
- 11 What ‘Consul, the Educated Monkey’ Can Teach Us about Early-Twentieth-Century Mathematics, Learning, and Vaudeville
- 12 Robin Hill’s Cloud Camera: Meteorological Communication, Cloud Classification
- 13 Chicken Heads and Punnett Squares: Reginald Punnett and the Role of Visualisations in Early Genetics Research at Cambridge, 1900–1930
- 14 Stacks, ‘Pacs’, and User Hacks: A Handheld History of Personal Computing
- Appendix: Student Research Conducted on the Whipple Museum’s Collections since 1995
- Index
The Whipple Museum of the History of Science
Objects and Investigations, to Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of R. S. Whipple’s Gift to the University of Cambridge
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 August 2019
Book contents
- The Whipple Museum of the History of Science
- Frontispiece
- The Whipple Museum of the History of Science
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Sacred Astronomy? Beyond the Stars on a Whipple Astrolabe
- 2 What Were Portable Astronomical Instruments Used for in Late-Medieval England, and How Much Were They Actually Carried Around?
- 3 ‘Sundials and Other Cosmographical Instruments’: Historical Categories and Historians’ Categories in the Study of Mathematical Instruments and Disciplines
- 4 ‘That Incomparable Instrument Maker’: The Reputation of Henry Sutton
- 5 Specimens of Observation: Edward Hobson’s Musci Britannici
- 6 Ideas Embodied in Metal: Babbage’s Engines Dismembered and Remembered
- 7 Galvanometers and the Many Lives of Scientific Instruments
- 8 Buying Antique Scientific Instruments at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: A Data-Driven Analysis of Lewis Evans’s and Robert Stewart Whipple’s Collecting Habits
- 9 Like a Bos: The Discovery of Fake Antique Scientific Instruments at the Whipple Museum
- 10 Wanted Weeds: Environmental History in the Whipple Museum
- 11 What ‘Consul, the Educated Monkey’ Can Teach Us about Early-Twentieth-Century Mathematics, Learning, and Vaudeville
- 12 Robin Hill’s Cloud Camera: Meteorological Communication, Cloud Classification
- 13 Chicken Heads and Punnett Squares: Reginald Punnett and the Role of Visualisations in Early Genetics Research at Cambridge, 1900–1930
- 14 Stacks, ‘Pacs’, and User Hacks: A Handheld History of Personal Computing
- Appendix: Student Research Conducted on the Whipple Museum’s Collections since 1995
- Index
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