Instruments and the Imagination by Thomas L. Hankins, Robert J. Silverman

Instruments and the Imagination

Thomas L. Hankins, Robert J. Silverman

352 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative medium-paced
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Thomas Hankins and Robert Silverman investigate an array of instruments from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century that seem at first to be marginal to science--magnetic clocks that were said to operate by the movements of sunflower seeds...

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