The Ship as a Scientific Instrument in the Eighteenth Century

2018 ◽  
pp. 123-138
Author(s):  
Richard Sorrenson
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Scientific Instrument

Scientific instrument curators in Britain

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 519-530
Author(s):  
Samuel J M M Alberti
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Scientific Instrument ◽  
Small Community ◽  
The United Kingdom

Abstract From the mid-1960s a new breed of scientific instrument curators emerged in the United Kingdom. This small community of practice developed in parallel to but distinctly from the expanding generation of university historians of science and other cognate museum sub-professions. Presenting the trajectories, experiences and practices of personnel in British scientific instrument collections, especially the Royal Scottish Museum in Edinburgh, this article explores how networks of interest around collections shaped the museum sector in later twentieth-century Britain. With particular objects – especially eighteenth-century instruments – the ‘brass brigade’ built a discipline.

scholarly journals A Japanned Telescope from Cavour Castle in Santena: Study and Conservation Treatment of an Eighteenth-Century Scientific Instrument

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (sup1) ◽  
pp. S147-S153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Aveni ◽  
Maria Beatrice Failla ◽  
Alessandro Gatti ◽  
Loredana Mannina ◽  
Tommaso Poli
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Scientific Instrument ◽  
Conservation Treatment

The Ship as a Scientific Instrument in the Eighteenth Century

Osiris ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 221-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Sorrenson
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Scientific Instrument
Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document