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Instruments and the Imagination
Instruments and the Imagination
Author: Thomas L. Hankins, Robert J. Silverman
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, magic lanterns, ocular harpsichords (machines that played different colored lights in harmonious m...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780691005492
ISBN-10: 0691005494
Publication Date: 1/11/1999
Pages: 352
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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