Matches in Harvard for { <http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/007681900/catalog> ?p ?o. }
Showing items 1 to 29 of
29
with 100 items per page.
- catalog abstract ""This fascinating encyclopedia presents 325 historically significant scientific instruments from antiquity to the present. Instruments used for testing and monitoring in addition to those used for research are studied, including laboratory organisms such as E.coli. Each of the signed entries explains how the instrument works and how it is used, as well as tracing its invention, development, and distribution. The instrument's effect on the scientific community and society is also explored. Beautiful illustrations accompany many of the entries. The editors from the Science Museum in London and the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History have provided an excellent addition to the history of sciences".--"Outstanding Reference Sources : the 1999 Selection of New Titles", American Libraries, May 1999. Comp. by the Reference Sources Committee, RUSA, ALA.".
- catalog contributor b10619307.
- catalog contributor b10619308.
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description ""This fascinating encyclopedia presents 325 historically significant scientific instruments from antiquity to the present. Instruments used for testing and monitoring in addition to those used for research are studied, including laboratory organisms such as E.coli. Each of the signed entries explains how the instrument works and how it is used, as well as tracing its invention, development, and distribution. The instrument's effect on the scientific community and society is also explored. Beautiful illustrations accompany many of the entries. The editors from the Science Museum in London and the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History have provided an excellent addition to the history of sciences".--"Outstanding Reference Sources : the 1999 Selection of New Titles", American Libraries, May 1999. Comp. by the Reference Sources Committee, RUSA, ALA.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xxv, 709 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0815315619 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Garland encyclopedias in the history of science ; vol. 2".
- catalog isPartOf "Garland reference library of social science ; v. 936".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Science Museum, London, and National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, in association with Garland Pub.,".
- catalog subject "502.8/4 21".
- catalog subject "Equipment and Supplies History Encyclopedias.".
- catalog subject "Q 184.5 I59 1998".
- catalog subject "Q184.5 .I57 1998".
- catalog subject "Science History Encyclopedias.".
- catalog subject "Science instrumentation Encyclopedias.".
- catalog subject "Scientific apparatus and instruments History Encyclopedias.".
- catalog subject "Technology instrumentation Encyclopedias.".
- catalog title "Instruments of science : an historical encyclopedia / editors, Robert Bud, Deborah Jean Warner ; associate editor, Stephen Johnston ; managing editor, Betsy Bahr Peterson ; picture editor, Simon Chaplin.".
- catalog type "Encyclopedias. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".