Artifacts

Instruments

Andersen, H. 1996. Historic Scientific Instruments in Denmark. (Mathematisk-fysiske Meddelelser, v. 44, no. 2), Kobenhavn: Kgl. Danske videnskabernes selskab, 446 pp.

Basso Ricci, M., L. Cafarella, A. Meloni, and P. Tucci, eds. 1997. Due secoli di strumenti geomagnetici in Italia (1740-1971). Istituto nazionale di geofisica. Bologna: Editrice compositori, 234 pp.
--Catalog of instruments in Italy

Gunther, R. T. 1932. The Astrolabes of the World: Based upon the Series of Instruments in the Lewis Evans Collection in the Old Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, with Notes on Astrolabes in the Collections of the British Museum, Science Museum, Sir. J. Findlay, Mr. S. V. Hoffman, the Mensing Collection and in other Public and Private Collections. 2 v. Oxford: University Press, 1932. Reprint, London: Holland Press, 1976, 1 v.
--153 leaves of plates. Bibliography of the astrolabe, pp. 576-598.

Hackmann, W. D. 1995. Catalogue of Pneumatical, Magnetical, and Electrical Instruments. Firenze: Giunti, 253 pp. [In the Museo di Storia della Scienza]

Inventaire des instruments scientifiques historiques conservés en France. Paris: Centre de Documentation d'Histoire des Techniques, 1964, 140 pp. Not at Harvard

Istituto e museo di storia della scienza (Italy) Brenni, Paolo. Catalogue of mechanical instruments. Prato: Giunti, 1993.

King, D. A. 1999. List of surviving Greek and earliest Islamic and some earliest European astrolabes. Appendix 4 (pp. 34-36) of Bringing astronomical instruments back to earth - The geographical data on medieval astrolabes (to ca. 1100). Pp. 3-53 in Between Demonstration and Imagination: Essays in the History of Science and Philosophy Presented to John D. North, ed. by L. Nauta and A. Vanderjagt. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 424 pp.

Lagemann, R. T. 1983. The Garland Collection of Classical Physics Apparatus at Vanderbilt University. Nashville, TN: Folio Publishers, 317 pp. Not at Harvard

Maddison, F. 1963. Early astronomical and mathematical instruments: a brief survey of sources and modern studies. History of Science, v. 2, no. 1, pp. 17-50.

Mayer, L. A. 1956. Islamic Astrolabists and their Works. Genve: A. Kundig, 123 pp.

Miniati, M. ed. 1991. Museo di Storia della Scienza: Catalogo. Firenze: Giunti, 384 pp.

Mollan, R. C. 1990. Irish National Inventory of Historic Scientific Instruments: Interim Report, 1990. Dublin: Royal Dublin Society: EOLAS, the Irish Science and Technology Agency, 810 pp.

Roper, F. C. S. 1865. Catalogue of Works on the Microscope and of those Referring to Microscopical Subjects in the Library of Freeman C. S. Roper. London: Printed for private circulation by J. E. Adlard, 102 pp. Reprint, Bronxville, NY: N. T. Smith, 1979.