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D. J. Bryden, 'The Medal as a Technical aide memoire: an Example from Restoration England', forthcoming in The Medal (1996).

Franz Adrian Dreier, Winkelmessinstrumente (Berlin, 1979).

Wolfgang Eckhardt, 'Erasmus und Josua Habermel - kunstgeschichtliche Anmerkungen zu den Werken der beiden Instrumentenmacher', Jahrbuch der Hamburger Kunstsammlungen, 22 (1977), pp. 13-74.

Galileo Galilei, Operations of the Geometric and Military Compass, trans. Stillman Drake (Washington, 1978).

J. R. Hale, Renaissance Fortification: Art or Engineering? (London, 1977).

A. R. Hall, Ballistics in the Seventeenth Century (Cambridge, 1952).

I. Hogg, The History of Fortification (London, 1981).

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John R. Millburn, 'The Office of Ordnance and the Instrument-making Trade in the Mid-eighteenth Century', Annals of Science, 45 (1988), pp. 221-93.

John R. Millburn, 'Gunnery Instruments and their Makers in the Eighteenth Century', Journal of the Ordnance Society, 7 (1995), pp. 27-44.

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R. Norton, The Gunner (London, 1628).

Geoffrey Parker, The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800 (Cambridge, 1988).

Simon Pepper & Nicholas Adams, Firearms and Fortifications: Military Architecture and Siege Warfare in Sixteenth-Century Siena (Chicago, 1986).

Charles Singer, Trevor I. Williams, et al. (eds), A History of Technology (7 vols, Oxford, 1954-84), vol. 3, From the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution (1957).

Brett D. Steele, 'Muskets and Pendulums: Benjamin Robins, Leonhard Euler, and the Ballistics Revolution', Technology and Culture, 35 (1994), pp. 348-82.

E. G. R. Taylor, The Mathematical Practitioners of Tudor & Stuart England (Cambridge, 1954).

Albert van Helden, 'The Invention of the Telescope', Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 67, part 4 (1977).

Hélène Vérin, La Gloire des ingénieurs: l'intelligence technique du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle (Paris, 1993).

Herbert Wunderlich, Kursächsische Feldmesskunst, artillerische Richtverfahren und Ballistik im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert (Berlin, 1977).

Ernst Zinner, Deutsche und niederländische astronomische Instrumente des 11. bis 18. Jahrhunderts (2nd ed., Munich, 1967).


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