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The Whipple Museum of the History of Science Pub Date : 2019-08-22 DOI: 10.1017/9781108633628.017

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‘That Incomparable Instrument Maker’: The Reputation of Henry Sutton “无与伦比的乐器制造商”:亨利·萨顿的名声

The Whipple Museum of the History of Science Pub Date : 2019-08-22 DOI: 10.1017/9781108633628.005

J. Bennett

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Stacks, ‘Pacs’, and User Hacks: A Handheld History of Personal Computing 堆栈、“pac”和用户黑客:个人电脑的手持历史

The Whipple Museum of the History of Science Pub Date : 2019-08-22 DOI: 10.1017/9781108633628.015

Michael McGovern

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Ideas Embodied in Metal: Babbage’s Engines Dismembered and Remembered 思想体现在金属:巴贝奇的引擎被肢解和记忆

The Whipple Museum of the History of Science Pub Date : 2019-08-22 DOI: 10.1017/9781108633628.007

S. Schaffer

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Robin Hill’s Cloud Camera: Meteorological Communication, Cloud Classification 罗宾·希尔的云相机:气象通讯，云分类

The Whipple Museum of the History of Science Pub Date : 2019-08-22 DOI: 10.1017/9781108633628.013

Henry Schmidt

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What Were Portable Astronomical Instruments Used for in Late-Medieval England, and How Much Were They Actually Carried Around? 在中世纪晚期的英国，便携式天文仪器被用来做什么?它们实际携带了多少?

The Whipple Museum of the History of Science Pub Date : 2019-08-22 DOI: 10.1017/9781108633628.003

C. Eagleton

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‘Sundials and Other Cosmographical Instruments’: Historical Categories and Historians’ Categories in the Study of Mathematical Instruments and Disciplines “日晷和其他宇宙仪器”:数学仪器和学科研究中的历史范畴和历史学家的范畴

The Whipple Museum of the History of Science Pub Date : 2019-08-22 DOI: 10.1017/9781108633628.004

Mosley Adam

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Student Research Conducted on the Whipple Museum’s Collections since 1995 自1995年以来，对惠普尔博物馆藏品进行的学生研究

The Whipple Museum of the History of Science Pub Date : 2019-08-22 DOI: 10.1017/9781108633628.016

Richard Glynne

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Buying Antique Scientific Instruments at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: A Data-Driven Analysis of Lewis Evans’s and Robert Stewart Whipple’s Collecting Habits 在二十世纪之交购买古董科学仪器:刘易斯·埃文斯和罗伯特·斯图尔特·惠普尔收集习惯的数据驱动分析

The Whipple Museum of the History of Science Pub Date : 2019-08-22 DOI: 10.1017/9781108633628.009

Tabitha Thomas

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Wanted Weeds: Environmental History in the Whipple Museum 通缉杂草:惠普尔博物馆的环境历史

The Whipple Museum of the History of Science Pub Date : 2019-08-22 DOI: 10.1017/9781108633628.011

H. Curry

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