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Maker

University of Cambridge

Subjects

Astronomy; (armillary spheres; astrolabes; globes; nocturnals; orreries); Navigation; (octants; quadrants; sextants); Optics; (Telescopes); Mathematics; (models; drawing instruments; scales; calculators; calendars); Medical; (pumps; chests; opthalmoscopes); Microscopes; Microtomes; Physical Instruments; (air-pumps; frictional electrical machine; platinum press; dynamical top; stands; magnetical apparatus; lodestone; pitch-pipe; whistles; barometers; thermometers; hygrometers; hydrometers); Surveying; (circumferentors; perambulators; levels; theodolites); dials; (sundials); optical (spy-glasses; spectacles; lanterns).

Title

A Guide to the Historic Scientific Instruments in the Whipple Museum of the History of Science

Description

Published copy of the Whipple Catalogue, with introduction from Robert Whipple. Incomplete, but lists objects of great interest from each division of the collection.

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27

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Whipple Museum of the History of Science, Cambridge

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