Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004412840
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Scientific Instruments between East and West is a collection of essays on the transmission of knowledge about scientific instruments and the trade in such instruments between the Eastern and Western worlds.
Scientific Instruments between East and West
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004412840
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Scientific Instruments between East and West is a collection of essays on the transmission of knowledge about scientific instruments and the trade in such instruments between the Eastern and Western worlds.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004412840
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Scientific Instruments between East and West is a collection of essays on the transmission of knowledge about scientific instruments and the trade in such instruments between the Eastern and Western worlds.
How Scientific Instruments Have Changed Hands
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004324933
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
This collection of essays discusses the marketing of scientific and medical instruments from the eighteenth century to the First World War. It features case-studies from the United Kingdom, the Americas and Europe.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004324933
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
This collection of essays discusses the marketing of scientific and medical instruments from the eighteenth century to the First World War. It features case-studies from the United Kingdom, the Americas and Europe.
Early Scientific Instruments
Author: Anthony John Turner
Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers, Limited
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers, Limited
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Nineteenth-century Scientific Instruments
Author: Gerard L'Estrange Turner
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520051607
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Examines the variety of instruments and equipment used in scientific research in fields such as chemistry, mechanics, meteorology, and electricity
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520051607
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Examines the variety of instruments and equipment used in scientific research in fields such as chemistry, mechanics, meteorology, and electricity
Instruments of Science
Author: Robert Bud
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780815315612
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
With over 300 entries from the ancient abacus to X-ray diffraction, as represented by a ca. 1900 photo of an X- ray machine as well as the latest research into filmless x- ray systems, this tour of the history of scientific instruments in multiple disciplines provides context and a bibliography for each entry. Newer conceptions of "instrument" include organisms widely used in research: e.g. the mouse, drosophila, and E. coli. 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
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780815315612
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
With over 300 entries from the ancient abacus to X-ray diffraction, as represented by a ca. 1900 photo of an X- ray machine as well as the latest research into filmless x- ray systems, this tour of the history of scientific instruments in multiple disciplines provides context and a bibliography for each entry. Newer conceptions of "instrument" include organisms widely used in research: e.g. the mouse, drosophila, and E. coli. 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
Proceedings of the XXV Scientific Instrument Symposium
Author: Ewa Wyka
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Instrument manufacture
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Instrument manufacture
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Science between Europe and Asia
Author: Feza Günergun
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9789048199686
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
This book explores the various historical and cultural aspects of scientific, medical and technical exchanges that occurred between central Europe and Asia. A number of papers investigate the printing, gunpowder, guncasting, shipbuilding, metallurgical and drilling technologies while others deal with mapping techniques, the adoption of written calculation and mechanical clocks as well as the use of medical techniques such as pulse taking and electrotherapy. While human mobility played a significant role in the exchange of knowledge, translating European books into local languages helped the introduction of new knowledge in mathematical, physical and natural sciences from central Europe to its periphery and to the Middle East and Asian cultures. The book argues that the process of transmission of knowledge whether theoretical or practical was not a simple and one-way process from the donor to the receiver as it is often admitted, but a multi-dimensional and complex cultural process of selection and transformation where ancient scientific and local traditions and elements. The book explores the issue from a different geopolitical perspective, namely not focusing on a singular recipient and several points of distribution, namely the metropolitan centres of science, medicine, and technology, but on regions that are both recipients and distributors and provides new perspectives based on newly investigated material for historical studies on the cross scientific exchanges between different parts of the world.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9789048199686
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
This book explores the various historical and cultural aspects of scientific, medical and technical exchanges that occurred between central Europe and Asia. A number of papers investigate the printing, gunpowder, guncasting, shipbuilding, metallurgical and drilling technologies while others deal with mapping techniques, the adoption of written calculation and mechanical clocks as well as the use of medical techniques such as pulse taking and electrotherapy. While human mobility played a significant role in the exchange of knowledge, translating European books into local languages helped the introduction of new knowledge in mathematical, physical and natural sciences from central Europe to its periphery and to the Middle East and Asian cultures. The book argues that the process of transmission of knowledge whether theoretical or practical was not a simple and one-way process from the donor to the receiver as it is often admitted, but a multi-dimensional and complex cultural process of selection and transformation where ancient scientific and local traditions and elements. The book explores the issue from a different geopolitical perspective, namely not focusing on a singular recipient and several points of distribution, namely the metropolitan centres of science, medicine, and technology, but on regions that are both recipients and distributors and provides new perspectives based on newly investigated material for historical studies on the cross scientific exchanges between different parts of the world.
The Diffusion of “Small” Western Technologies in the Middle East
Author: Uri M. Kupferschmidt
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110777304
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
In recent years we have become interested in the diffusion of “small” Western technologies in the countries of the Middle East during the 19th and 20th centuries, the era of Imperialism and first globalization. We postulated a contrast between “small” and “big” technologies. Under the latter category we may understand railway systems, electricity grids, telegraph networks, and steam navigation, imposed by foreign powers or installed by connected local entrepreneurs. But many “small” Western technologies, such as sewing machines, typewriters, pianos, eyeglasses, and similar consumer goods, which had been developed and manufactured in Europe and America, were wanted, and willingly acquired by the agency of individual users elsewhere. In a few cases, however, the inventions had to be adapted, or were overstepped, and even delayed. Some were adopted as social markers or status symbols only by elites who could afford them. Processes of adoption and diffusion therefore differed according to cultural settings, preferences, and needs. Social and cultural historians, and social scientists, not only of the Middle East, will find in this collection of essays a new approach to the impact of Western technological inventions on the Middle East.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110777304
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
In recent years we have become interested in the diffusion of “small” Western technologies in the countries of the Middle East during the 19th and 20th centuries, the era of Imperialism and first globalization. We postulated a contrast between “small” and “big” technologies. Under the latter category we may understand railway systems, electricity grids, telegraph networks, and steam navigation, imposed by foreign powers or installed by connected local entrepreneurs. But many “small” Western technologies, such as sewing machines, typewriters, pianos, eyeglasses, and similar consumer goods, which had been developed and manufactured in Europe and America, were wanted, and willingly acquired by the agency of individual users elsewhere. In a few cases, however, the inventions had to be adapted, or were overstepped, and even delayed. Some were adopted as social markers or status symbols only by elites who could afford them. Processes of adoption and diffusion therefore differed according to cultural settings, preferences, and needs. Social and cultural historians, and social scientists, not only of the Middle East, will find in this collection of essays a new approach to the impact of Western technological inventions on the Middle East.
Nineteenth-Century Scientific Instruments and Their Makers
Author: de Clercq
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900462872X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900462872X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Early American Scientific Instruments and Their Makers
Author: Bedini Silvio A.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780243815456
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780243815456
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description