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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 2, _pChemistry, biology, physical geography, geology, mineralogy, and meteorology / _cVarious.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2015.
300			_a1 online resource (viii, 441 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, 1876.
505	0		_a1. Chemistry -- 2. Biology -- 3. Physical geography, geology, mining and meteorology.
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 2 of the proceedings covers chemistry, biology, and earth sciences including geology, mining, meteorology and hydrography. The contributors include Joseph Dalton Hooker, William Thiselton-Dyer, Andrew Crombie Ramsay and John Rae, 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: _z9781108078146
830		0	_aCambridge library collection. _pPhysical sciences.
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139924115
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