Scientific Instruments and Collections

Edited by Giorgio Strano, Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza (IMSS), Florence

Scientific Instruments and Collections is a peer-reviewed book series devoted to scientific collections, scientific instruments, instrument manufacturing and trade from antiquity to present day. The series is published under the auspices of the Scientific Instrument Commission, and will publish a peer-reviewed, edited selection of the Commission’s annual conferences. The series welcomes proposals for monographs, edited volumes and completed manuscripts for consideration for the series.

Scientific Instruments and Collections is published as a subseries of History of Science and Medicine Library.

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Series Editor:

Giorgio Strano

Category:

History - History of Science & Medicine

BIC2:

History of science, European history

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Series

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Sub Series

Imprint:

BRILL

Related Sub Series:

History of Science and Medicine Library

ISSN:

1872-0684

Biographical note Editorial Board

Biographical note

Giorgio Strano, Ph.D. (2003) in History of Science, University of Florence, is Curator of the Collections at the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza in Florence. He has published extensively on the history of astronomy, including Galileo’s Telescope (2008).

Editorial Board

Edited by:
Giorgio Strano, Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence, Italy

Editors
Stephen Johnston, Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
Mara Miniati, Museo Galileo, Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence
Alison Morrison-Low, National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh

€99.00$136.00

Series:

HSML

Volume:

23/2

Version:

Hardback

ISBN13:

9789004211506

Status:

Available: In Print

From Earth-Bound to Satellite

Edited by Alison D. Morrison-Low, National Museums Scotland, Sven Dupré, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and Free University of Berlin, Stephen Johnston, Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford, and Giorgio Strano, Museo Galileo, Florence

Marking the anniversary of the telescope’s invention, these collected essays highlight a number of significant historical episodes concerning this well-loved instrument, which has played a crucial role in Man’s thinking about his position – literally and philosophically – in the universe.

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€110.00$142.00

Series:

HSML

Volume:

10/1

Version:

Hardback

ISBN13:

9789004172708

Status:

Available: In Print

European Collections of Scientific Instruments, 1550-1750

Edited by Giorgio Strano, Museo Galileo, Florence, Stephen Johnston, Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford, Mara Miniati, Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence, and Alison Morrison-Low, National Museums Scotland

These selected studies on sixteenth and eighteenth centuries European collections of scientific instruments, which were part of the princely ‘wunderkammern’, delineate an up-to-date-panorama about the formation of the most important museums of the history of science.

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