How scientific instruments have changed hands / 
edited by A.D. Morrison-Low, Sara J. Schechner & Paolo Brenni. 
 - 1 online resource (xxxii, 239 pages) :  illustrations (some color) 
 - History of science and medicine library ;  volume 56 Scientific instruments and collections ;  volume 5 .
 - History of science and medicine library ;  v. 56. History of science and medicine library.  Scientific instruments and collections ;  v. 5. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Symbiosis and style : the production, sale and purchase of instruments in the luxury markets of eighteenth-century London / Alexi Baker -- Selling by the book : British scientific trade literature after 1800 / Joshua Nall and Liba Taub -- The gentle art of persuasion : advertising instruments during Britain's industrial revolution / Alison D. Morrison-Low -- Some considerations about the prices of physics instruments in the nineteenth century / Paolo Brenni -- Mathematical instruments changing hands at world's fairs, 1851-1904 / Peggy Aldrich Kidwell -- Connections between the instrument-making trades in Great Britain and Ireland and the North American continent / Gloria Clifton -- European pocket sundials for colonial use in American territories / Sara J. Schechner -- Selling mathematical instruments in America before the printed trade catalogue / Richard L. Kremer -- Trade in medical instruments and colonialist policies between Mexico and Europe in the nineteenth century / Laura Chazaro. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9789004324930 9004324933 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label>954303  MIL 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2016036426 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>1700-1999 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Scientific apparatus and instruments--History--18th century.<br/>Scientific apparatus and instruments--History--19th century.<br/>Scientific apparatus and instruments--History--20th century.<br/>Scientific apparatus and instruments--Marketing--History.<br/>SCIENCE--General.<br/>Scientific apparatus and instruments.<br/>Scientific apparatus and instruments--Marketing.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.<br/>History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>Q185 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>502.8/4