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020 _a9781139924108 (ebook)
020 _z9781108078139 (paperback)
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_beng
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050 4 _aQ184
_b.S63 2015
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110 2 _aSouth Kensington Museum.
245 1 0 _aConferences held in connection with the Special Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus, 1876.
_nVolume 1,
_pPhysics and mechanics /
_cVarious.
246 3 0 _aPhysics and mechanics
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2015.
300 _a1 online resource (xi, 420 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aCambridge library collection. Physical sciences
500 _aOriginally published in London, for the lords of the Committee of Council on Education by Chapman and Hall in 1876.
520 _aIn 1876 the South Kensington Museum held a major international exhibition of scientific instruments and equipment, both historical and contemporary. Many of the items eventually formed the basis of collections now held at London's Science Museum. In May 1876, organisers arranged a series of conferences at which leading British and European scientists explained and demonstrated some of the items on display. The purpose was to emphasise the exhibition's goal not merely to preserve archaic treasures (such as Galileo's telescopes or Janssen's microscope) but to juxtapose them with current technology and so inspire future scientific developments. Volume 1 of the proceedings is devoted to physics and mechanics. The contributors include William Thomson (Baron Kelvin), John Tyndall, Francis Galton, James Clerk Maxwell, J. A. Froude and Thomas Stevenson, all of whom have other works reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection, which also includes the full catalogue of the exhibition itself.
650 0 _aScientific apparatus and instruments
_vCongresses.
650 0 _aScience
_vCongresses.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9781108078139
830 0 _aCambridge library collection.
_pPhysical sciences.
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139924108
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