Gerard L'E. Turner DLitt., DSc., FMA,
FRHistS, FSA, is a physicist by training,
and has established an international reputation
as a historian of scientific instruments.
On retiring after 25 years as a curator at the
Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
University, he was appointed in 1988
Visiting Professor of the History of
Scientific Instruments at Imperial College,
London. Since 1981, he has been Editor of
Annals o f Science, and he has served as
President of the Royal Microscopical
Society and the British Society for the
History of Science. He became a Foreign
Member of the Hollandsche Maatschappij
der Wetenschappen in 1976. Currently he
is President of the Scientific Instrument
Society, and Secretary of the international
Scientific Instrument Commission. Among
numerous awards, he received the Caird
Medal of the National Maritime« Museum
in 1993, and the Paul Bunge Prize in the
History of Scientific Instruments in 1995.
He is the author of 11 books and over 100
papers in the field of scientific instruments.
His most recent books are Scientific
Instruments and Experimental Philosophy
1550-1850 (Aldershot: Variorum, 1991),
and Gli Strumenti: Storia delle Scienze, Vol. 1
(Turin: Einaudi, 1991).
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front : Tangent galvanometer 761
back : Instrument Room, 1996 ;
ISBN 90 71835 07 3
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