Table of Contents
Artefacts 7: Illuminating Instruments
Series Preface vii-viii
Introduction ix-x
INSTRUMENTS IN PRACTICE
Klaus Staubermann, "Instrument and Image: Inside the Nineteenth-Century Scientific Lantern Slide," 3-18
Peter Heering, "The Enlightened Microscope: Working with Eighteenth-Century
Solar Microscopes," 19-38
INSTRUMENTS IN INDUSTRY
Deborah Jean Warner, "Refractometers and Industrial Analysis," 41-52
Peter J T. Morris, "Regional Sryles in Pesticide Analysis: Coulson, Lovelock,
and the Detection of Organochlorine Insecticides," 53-69
INSTRUMENTS IN THE MUSEUM
Christian Sichau, "Hard Times: The Difficult Lives of Three Instruments in the Museum," 73-94
Sean F Johnston, "Why Display? Representing Holography in Museum Collections," 95-114
Jane Wess, "Inside the Atom: Two Sides of a Story," 115-129
Arne Schirrmacher, "Looking into (the) Matter: Scientific Artifacts and Atomistic Iconography," 131-155
Klaus Staubermann, "Instrument Museums and Collections," 157-162
Select Bibliography 163-164
Index 165
About the Contributors 173