{"product_id":"how-scientific-instruments-have-changed-hands-9789004324923","title":"How Scientific Instruments Have Changed Hands","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection of essays discusses the marketing of scientific and medical instruments from the eighteenth century to the First World War. The evidence presented here is derived from sources as diverse as contemporary trade literature, through newspaper advertisements, to rarely-surviving inventories, and from the instruments themselves. The picture may not yet be complete, but it has been acknowledged that it is more complex than sketched out twenty-five or even fifty years ago. Here is a collection of case-studies from the United Kingdom, the Americas and Europe showing instruments moving from maker to market-place, and, to some extent, what happened next.    Contributors are: Alexi Baker, Paolo Brenni, Laura Cházaro, Gloria Clifton, Peggy Aldrich Kidwell, Richard L. Kremer, A.D. Morrison-Low, Joshua Nall, Sara J. Schechner, and Liba Taub.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"this is a volume that helps to broaden our understanding of the complex nature and status of what for convenience we call scientific instruments and to think about them as consumed commodities.\"  Richard Dunn (Royal Museums Greenwich), British Journal for the History of Science 50:1: 149-150.   \"Recommended. Faculty and professionals only\"  - N. Sadanand (Central Connecticut State University), Choice, 1 May 2017.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface vii  A. D. Morrison-Low, Sara J. Schechner and Paolo Brenni  List of Illustrations ix  Notes on Contributors xvi  Colour Plates xix    1 Symbiosis and Style: The Production, Sale and Purchase of Instruments in the Luxury Markets of Eighteenth-century London 1  Alexi Baker    2 Selling by the Book: British Scientific Trade Literature after 1800 21  Joshua Nall and Liba Taub    3 The Gentle Art of Persuasion: Advertising Instruments during Britain’s Industrial Revolution 43  A. D. Morrison-Low    4 Some Considerations about the Prices of Physics Instruments in the Nineteenth Century 57  Paolo Brenni    5 Mathematical Instruments Changing Hands at World’s Fairs, 1851–1904 88  Peggy Aldrich Kidwell    6 Connections between the Instrument-making Trades in Great Britain and Ireland and the North American Continent 104  Gloria Clifton    7 European Pocket Sundials for Colonial Use in American Territories 119  Sara J. Schechner    8 Selling Mathematical Instruments in America before the Printed Trade Catalogue 171  Richard L. Kremer    9 Trade in Medical Instruments and Colonialist Policies between Mexico and Europe in the Nineteenth Century 212  Laura Cházaro    General Index 227","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210690486615,"sku":"9789004324923","price":138.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/how-scientific-instruments-have-changed-hands-9789004324923","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}