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Scientific Instruments, 1500-1900: An Introduction
Scientific Instruments 15001900 An Introduction
Author: Gerard L'Estrange Turner
The impulse to collect is an almost universal one, satisfying the hunting and acquisitive instincts, the love of beauty, and intellectual curiosity. The wealthy have collected rare and beautiful things from the earliest days of civilization, but the collection, or "cabinet," containing natural curiosities dates from the sixteenth century, and it...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780856674914
ISBN-10: 0856674915
Pages: 144
Edition: 2nd
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Publisher: Philip Wilson Pub Ltd
Book Type: Hardcover
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