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By the same author:
Descriptive Catalogue o f Van Marum's
Scientific Instruments in Teyler's
Museum (1973)
Essays on the History o f the Microscope (1980)
Antieke wetenschappelijke instrumenten (1981)
Historische microscopen (1981)
Nineteenth-Century Scientific Instruments (1983)
The Great Age o f the Microscope:
The Collection o f the Royal Microscopical Society
through 150 Years (1989)
God Bless the Microscope! A History o f the
Royal Microscopical Society over 150 Years (1989)
Scientific Instruments and Experimental Philosophy
1550-1850 {1991)
Museo di Storia della Scienza: Catalogue o f
Microscopes (1991)
Storia delle scienze I: Gli strumenti (1991)
The research for this book was performed with financial support of
the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), grant
nr. 60-35.
Published by the Teyler Museum, Harlem
©The Teyler Museum 1996
Pre-press by Pre-Press Techniek, Den Bosch
Printed by Boekdrukkerij EE. MacDonald, Nijmegen
ISBN 90 71835 07 3
NUGI 812
Contents
Foreword 7
Acknowledgements 9
Introduction 11
Advice to the User of the Catalogue 21
TKe Catalogue of the Collection 1 f|
Timekeeping 25
Weights and Measures 31
Mechani®SB| ■ 47
Hydrostatics' ' 55
Pneumatics 65
Heat TOpn
Thermometers 71
Conductivity of Heat ’ “79
Physical Efifec^M s l
Oil Lamps 96
Meteorology
Acoustics; B
SBpelephony 139
Optics 145
Prisms, Lenses, Mirrors 145
■Interference 151
Polarization 156
Luminescence 166
Microscopes 169
Telescopes if!w
Spectroscopy 180
Optical Devices m
Projectors 200
Magnetism 209
Electricity 223
Faraday-Ampère Laws 223
Voltaic Electricity 226
Electric Machines 231
Electro-Magnetic Machines 239
Induction Coils 243
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