1415 matching record(s)
U Adler Planetarium
A Guide to the Adler Planetarium
Commissioners of the Chicago Park District and The Adler Planetarium. Chicago, Ill., 1973.
[1973-105]
1973
U Adler Planetarium
Guide to the Adler Planetarium
Ed. Sondra J. Thorson. Chicago: The Adler Planetarium, Winter 1980. Presented by Mr & Mrs Roderick S. Webster
[1984-119]
1980
U Amei Senowa, Zofia
The Globe of Martin Bylica of Olkusz and celestial maps in the East and in the West
Translated by Andrzej Potocki. Wroclaw (Breslau) saklad Narodowy imienia Ossolinskich wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk. 1959. (Polska Akademia Nauk Komitet Historii Nauki, Monografie z Dziejow Nauki i Techniki - XI).
[1960-9]
1959
U Anonymous
Exposicion monografica de la Inventira Espanola
Madrid, October 1970.
[1970-105]
1970
U Anonymous
Directions for using the Engineers' Sliding Rule; with a description of the several lines upon it, and Directions how to find any Number thereon; together with The Application of these Lines to Multiplication, Division, the Rule of Three, etc. etc.
The Mensuration of Superfices and Solids are likewise made perfectly easy; it is also particularly useful in Weighing all kinds of Metals and other Bodies. Printed by W. Penn, 31, Bush Lane, Cannon Street, for The Master Rule Makers, of London. N.d. [inscribed ?1856]. Inscribed on the cover, Henryk T Mirk, ? 1856
[Unknown]
1856?
U Austin, J. F.; McConnell, A.
'James Six, F.R.S. - Two Hundred Years of the Six's Self-Registering Thermometer'
Typescript. London: Science Museum, [1979]. [Subsequently published; see separate entry].
[1979-269]
1979
U Baker, C.
Classified List of Secondhand Scientific Instruments
London, April 1939.
[Unknown]
1939
U Baker, R.
"A Guide to the United States Patent and Trade Mark Literature"
National Reference Library; London, 1972.
[Unknown]
1972
U Barlow, W.
The Navigators Supply
(London 1597); Facsimile no. 430 The English Experience; Amsterdam 1972
[1974-156]
1972
U Beck, R. & J.
An Illustrated Catalogue of Scientific Instruments
[London]: R. & J. Beck, 1868.
[1968-20]
1868
U Bedarida, Francois; Maddison, Francis
Cinq siecles de l'art francais des instruments scientifiques: XVe - XIXe siecle
9 Novembre - 4 Decembre 1970. Maison Francaise d'Oxford. (Exhibition catalogue). 2 copies.
[Unknown]
1970
U Bellamy, F. A.; Bellamy, Ethel F. B.
Herbert Hall Turner: A Notice of his Seismological Work
University Observatory, Oxford. Published 1931. Printed by the County Press, Newport, I.O.W.
[Unknown]
1931
U Biraud, Guy
La Restoration et la Conservation des Appareils Scientifiques de Collection | Restoration and Preservation of Scientific Instruments for Collections
et la participation de J. Lebreton et R. Foster; Ouvrage place sous le patronage de la Societe Historique de Radio La Rochelle [printed]: Edition Biraud, 1987
[1989-95]
1987
U Bird, John
The Method of constructing Mural Quadrants. Exemplified by a Description of the Brass Mural Quadrant in the Royal Observatory at Greenwich
By Mr. John Bird, Mathematical Instrument-maker in the Strand. Published by Order of the Commissioners of Longitude. London: printed by W. Richardson and S. Clark; and sold by John Nourse, in the Strand; and Mess. Mount and Page, Tower-Hill. 1768. 4to. R. S. Clay's copy (purchase)
[1950- ]
1768
U Boyle, Robert
Of a Degradation of Gold made by an Anti-Elixir a Strange Chymical Narative
London: Printed by T.N. for Henery Herringman, at the Blew Anchor in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange, 1678.
[Unknown]
1678
U Brown, Olivia
The Whipple Museum of the History of Science: Catalogue 1: Surveying
Cambridge: Whipple Museum of the History of Science, 1982. Shelved under Whipple Museum.
[1982-10]
1982
U Burstall, Aubrey F.
A History of Mechanical Engineering
London: Faber & Faber, 1963.
[1963-128]
1963
U Calvert, H. R.
Astronomy: Globes, Orreries and other Models
A Science Museum illustrated booklet. London: HMSO., 1967. Shelved under Science Museum.
[1968-31]
1967
U Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Catalogue general
Editions du centre national de la recherche scientifique: 1968.
[1968-25]
1968
U Chew, V. K.
Talking Machines 1877-1914: Some Aspects of the Early History of the Gramophone
A Science Museum book. London: HMSO., 1967.
[1968-423]
1967
U Chhang Fu-Yuan
Thien-Wen I Chhi Chih-Lueh
Photocopy (of a Chinese book illustrating the Peking Observatory instruments, the illustrations closely based upon the 17th-century originals). n.d. [c.1930, according to Needham].
[1979-146]
1930?
U Christie, Manson & Woods
Catalogue of the Valuable Collection of Pictures, Works of Art, and Decorative Objects, of Christopher Beckett Denison, Esq., Deceased, late of Upper Grosvenor Street
which (by Order of the Executors) Will be Sold by Auction, by Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods, at their Great Rooms, 8 King Street, St. James's Square, on Saturday, June 6, 1885, and following days (First Portion). Saturday, June 20, 1885, and following days (Second Portion). Tuesday, June 30, 1885, and following days (Third Portion). Formerly the property of Edward Chapman
[Unknown]
1885
U Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers
Guide du Musee du Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers
292, Rue Saint-Martin, Paris. 1949. (Publication of the Ministere de l'Education Nationale).
[Unknown]
1949
U Destombes, M.
"Le Ciel et la Terre en miniature"
in Plaisir de France, no. 340 (fevrier 1967), pp. 48-55
[1967-62]
1967
U Deutscher Vermessungsingenierre {?}
Praxis Geometriae Vermessungivesen - gestern und heute
Dortmund: {...}, 1969. (Exhibition catalogue of surveying instruments).
[1970-94]
1969
U Dodge, Bayard
The Sabians of Harran
A.U.B. Festival Book, n.d. Photostat.
[1978-551]
[n.d.]
U Dolan, Winthrop W.
A Choice of Sundials
Battleboro, Vermont, U.S.A.: The Stephen Green Press, {...}.
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
U Drachmann, A. G.
The Mechanical Technology of Greek and Roman Antiquity: A study of the literary sources
Copenhagen: Munksgaard; Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press; London: Hafner Publishing Co., 1963
[1963-37]
1963
U Exhibition Geo '71
5000 Years of Surveying
Exhibition Geo '71: 1.-8. September 1971: Exhibition of Historical Maps and Instruments: Stadtisches Museum Wiesbaden: Exhibition Catalogue. (On the occasion of the XIIIth International Congress of Surveyors.); Wiesbaden: Deutscher Verein fur Vermessungswesen, 1971.
[1971-114]
1971
U Ferguson, James
"A new method of constructing Sun-Dials, for any given latitude, without the assistance of Dialing Scales, or Logarithmic Calculations"
extract from The Gentleman's Magazine, June 1769, pp. 143-4 and two plates (one double).
[Unknown]
1769
U Ferrier, Jean-Louis
Holbein: Les Ambassadeurs
Bibliotheque Mediations; Paris: Denoel/Gonthier, 1977; (Cover has subtitle: 'Anatomie d'un chef-d'oeuvre')
[1990-132]
1977
U Fine, Oronce
Oronce Fine's First Book of Solar Horology Interpreted in English
By Peter I. Drinkwater from the Copy of 1560 | With a Biography of Fine by Charles K. Aked. Shipston-on-Stour: Published by Peter I. Drinkwater, 1990. Presented by the publisher
[1990-58]
1990
U Foister, Susan; Roy, Ashok; Wyld, Martin
Making & Meaning: Holbein's Ambassadors
Making & Meaning Series; London: National Gallery Publications, 1997; (... published to accompany an exhibition at The National Gallery, London 5 November 1997 - 1 February 1998); Presented by the National Gallery
[1998-7]
1997
U Garvan, A. N. B.
'Slide Rule and Sector: A Study in Science, Technology and Society'
Uncorrected typescript of a paper delivered by Professor A. N. B. Garvan, University of Pennsylvania, at the Xth International Congress of the History of Science.
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
U Gibbs, Sharon L.
Greek and Roman Sundials
Newhaven & London: Yale University Press, 1976.
[Unknown]
1976
U Ginsburg, Jekuthiel
"The Astrolabe"
in The Industrial Museum of New York, vol. 1 no. 1, pp. 1-16. Shelved under Industrial Museum.
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
U Greenwich Observatory
The old Royal Observatory, a brief guide
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, July 1967.
[1969-154]
1967
U H. W. M.
"Collection of navigational and marine instruments in the Admiral Room, Snowshill Manor, Gloucestershire"
in Snowshill Manor, pp. 7-8. (Booklet published by the National Trust, in lieu of a full guide book).
[1954- ]
[n.d.]
U Harris, Joseph
The Description and Use of the Globes and the Orrery. To which is prefix'd, by Way of Introduction, a Brief Account of the Solar System
By Joseph Harris, Teacher of the Mathematicks. The Seventh Edition. (1751). London: printed for B. Cole, at the Orrery, near Water-Lane, in Fleet-street, late the Shop of Mr. Thomas Wright, Instrument-Maker to His Majesty; and E. Cushee, near St. Dunstan's Church, Fleet-street. 8vo. Formerly the property of William Borlase
[Unknown]
1751
U International Union of History and Philosophy of Science
Inventario Mundial de Instrumentos Cientificos de Interesse Historico
Uniao Internacional de Historia e Filosofia das Ciencias. Over 400 sheets, dated July to September, 1968. (Portuguese Inventory).
[1968-538]
1968
U Janin, Louis
"Un Cadran de Hauteur Astrolabique et un Cadran Horizontal Portatif"
in Sefunim (Bulletin), VI Arie L. Ben-Eli Memorial vol. 1981, pp. 68-71 & plate X.
[Unknown]
1981
U Jansen, F. A.
"Geschiedenis Rond het Fonografisch Gebeuren"
in Technicon, no. 28, Zomer 1984, pp. 8-21
[Unknown]
1984
U Kennedy, E. S. (trans. & ed.)
The Planetary Equatorium of Jamshid Ghiyath al-Din al-Kashi (d. 1429)
An Edition of the Anonymous Persian Manuscript 75[44b] in the Garrett Collection at Princeton University. Being a Description of Two Computing Instruments. The Plate of Heavens and the Plate of Conjunctions. With Translation and Commentary by E. S. Kennedy. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1960. Princeton Oriental Studies, vol. 18.
[1961-64]
1960
U King, H. C.
The London Planetarium
n.p., n.d.
[1971-59]
[n.d.]
U Klemm, Friedrich
"From the History of the Cog-wheel"
in The BASF Digest, vol. I, 1965.
[1965-222]
1965
U Leadbetter, Charles
Mechanick Dialling; or the New Art of Shadows, freed from the many Obscurities, Superfluities and Errors of former Writers upon this Subject. The Whole laid down after so plain a Method that any Person (though a Stranger to the Art) with a Pair of Compasses and Common Ruler only, may make a Dial upon any Plane for any Place in the World, as well as those who have attained to the greatest Knowledge, and Perfection in the Mathematics. Illustrated with many Copper Plates, and examples of Dials for London ... Oxford ... to which are added ...
A New Edition: not only very much improved by the Addition of the New Star-Dial, etc. but is the only Book upon the Subject that has been adapted to the New Stile. London: Printed for Thomas Caslon, no. 4, Opposite Stationers-Hall, Ludgate-Street. 1773. 8vo. (Purchase)
[1940- ]
1773
U Leigh, S.
Urania's Mirror or a View of the Heavens
32 cards showing the positions of stars in visible constellations. London, 1830. Photocopy. [See also Aspin, Jehoshaphat, for accompanying book].
[1979-113]
1830
U Lyons, Henry
Ancient Surveying Instruments
First Proof of a lecture delivered by Henry Lyons, Director of the Science Museum, in the Map Room of the Royal Geographical Society, 13 December, 1926. Bound with C. R. Weld, "Report"). Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
1926
U May, W. E.
"Faithful Compass"
extract from Shell Aviation News, no. 256, October 1959, pp. 2-7.
[Unknown]
1959
U Mensing Collection
Antiquites - Objects d'Art
Miniatures et Feuilles d'Antiphonaire sur parchemin, XIIe-XVIe Siecles. Miniatures Persans - Art Egyptien. Meubles - Plafonds Peints - Horloges - Automates - Pendules. Sculptures - Bronzes - Vitraux Peints - Armes, etc. Porcelaines de Vienne, Saxe et Hochst. Ceramiques Diverses - ... Collection de feu M. - Ant. W. M. Mensing. Vente aux Encheres Publiques les 23, 24 et 25 Novembre 1937 dans la Grande Salle des Ventes 16-18 Doelenstraat. Direction: Mensing & Fils (F. Muller & Cie) Amsterdam. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
1937
U Michel, Henri
Exposition d'Instruments Scientifiques et de Documents anciens et modernes
Organised on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the Society Belge d'Astronomie de Meteorologie et de Physique du Globe held at the Mussees Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Bruxelles. 27 October-30 November, 1945.
[Unknown]
1945
U Middleton, Erasmus
The New Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences
[Extracts from]. Comprising the articles (with plates) Clocks, Cometarium, Compass, Dial, Level, Microscope, Orrery, Quadrant, Quadrat, Telescopes, and illus. of Armillary Sphere, Astronomical Quadrant, and Mariners Astrolabe. 2 volumes. London, 1778. Special paper size.
[1960-76]
1778
U Muller & Cie, Frederik
Catalogue Des Objets D'Art et de Haute Curiosite de L'Antiquite, ... Les Instruments de Mathematiques de la Famille Strozzi, etc.
Le Vente Aura Lieu a Amsterdam Les 28-30 Novembre 1911, dans la Salle de Vente Doelenstraat 16-18 Direction Frederik Muller & Cie.
[Unknown]
1911
U Murdoch, John E.
Album of Science: Antiquity and the Middle Ages
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1984. Albums of Science. Presented by the publisher
[1984-298]
1984
U Museo Naval
Instrumentos Nauticos en el Museo Naval
Salvador Garcia Franco; Instituto Historico de Marina; Madrid 1959
[1964-62]
1959
U Neale
"A Description of Mr. Neale's Celestial Patent Globe. With a Copper-Plate of that curious Machine in its proper Colours"
offprint from the Universal Magazine, vol. XII no. LXXXII, April 1753, pp. 145-148 and plate. 8vo. (Binding inscribed "Ayscough - Microscope").
[Unknown]
1753
U Negretti; Zambra
Negretti & Zambra's Encyclopaedic Illustrated and Descriptive Reference Catalogue of Optical, Mathematical, Philosophical, Photographic, and Standard Meteorological Instruments, manufactured and sold by them
Negretti and Zambra, Opticians and Meteorological Instrument Makers to Her Majesty the Queen ... Holborn Viaduct, E. C., 45, Cornhill, E. C., and 122, Regent Street, W., London. n.d. [after 1878].
[Unknown]
1878?
U Ozanam, J.
L'Usage du Compas de Proportion, Explique & demontre d'une maniere courte & facile, & augmente d'un Traite de la division des Champs
Suivant la Copie imprimee a Paris. a La Haye, chez Henry van Bulderen, Marchand Libraire, dans le Pooten, a l'Enseigne de Mezeray. 1691. 12mo. On permanent loan from University College, Oxford (R.5.7)
[1962-65/ ]
1691
U Pennsylvania Magazine
The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
vol. LVI no. 223, July 1932. Philadelphia: The Historical Society of Pennsylvania. (Contains chiefly 3 articles on David Rittenhouse, Philadelphia clockmakers, & the Rittenhouse Exhibition, by Babb, Stretch & Stokley, all in connection with the Rittenhouse Bicentenary Celebration.) Shelved under Rittenhouse.
[Unknown]
1932
U Roussel
Catalogue des Objets D'Art ... Instruments de Mathematiques, Compas, Regles, Cadrans solaires, Astrolabes, Spheres, Lunettes, Microscopes, etc.
Principalement du XVIe Siecle; Composant la Collection de feu M. ROUSSEL; 13, 14, 15, Mars 1911.
[Unknown]
1911
U Schlachter, Alois
Der Globus, seine Entstehung und Verwendung in der Antike
Leipzig-Berlin, 1927.
[1966-279]
1927
U Schmidheim, Albert J.
Festschrift zu seinem achtzigsten Geburtstag am 3. November 1963
Heerbrugg, Schweiz: Wild Heerbrugg A. G., 1963. Contents include: Dr-Ing. G. Strasser, 'Zwei neue geodatische Instrumente und ihr Einsatz'; Dr R. Gender, 'Wandlungen der Mikroskopie'; R. H. Freare, B.Sc., 'The Microscope in Petrology'. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[Unknown]
1963
U Schneider, Ivo
"Der Proportionalzirkel ein universelles analogischen Instrument der Vergangenheit"
Deutsches Museum Abhandlungen und Berichte, vol. xxxviii no.2, 1970. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1980-181]
1970
U Science Museum
Henry Maudslay Bicentenary Exhibition 1971
London: Science Museum, 1971
[Unknown]
1971
U Science Museum
Scientific Toys Special Exhibition December 1971 - Easter 1972
London: Science Museum, 1971
[Unknown]
1971
U Science Museum
Telecommunications Gallery (Gallery 66 Third Floor)
London: Science Museum, 1971
[Unknown]
1971
U Sharpe, Sam H.
Salutations to Robert-Houdin
His life magic and automata. Illustrated with sketches, photographs, and collected artworks from the author's collection and the collections of other famous historians. Calgary, Alberta, Canada: Micky Hades International, 1983. (Originally serialised in Linking Ring, September 1967 - April 1974). Presented by the publisher
[1983-255]
1983
U Simms, Frederick W.
A Treatise on the Principal Mathematical Instruments employed in Surveying, Levelling, and Astronomy: explaining their Construction, Adjustments, and Use: with an Appendix, and Tables
Sixth Edition (1844). London: Messrs. Troughton and Simms, 138, Fleet St.
[Unknown]
1844
U Sloley, R. W.
"The Groma - an ancient surveying instrument"
offprint from Ancient Egypt, September 1926. 3 copies.
[Unknown]
1926
U South Kensington Museum [Science Museum]
Catalogue of the Science Collections for Teaching and Research in the South Kensington Museum. Part V. Physiography
Department of Science and Art of the Committee of Council on Education. London: HMSO, 1895. Shelved under Science Museum.
[Unknown]
1895
U Stanley, William Ford
Surveying and Levelling Instruments theoretically and practically described for construction, qualities, selection, preservation, adjustments, and uses; with other apparatus and appliances used by civil engineers and surveyors in the field
Second edition (first, 1890). London: E. & F. N. Spon, 1895.
[1983-127]
1895
U Stanley, William Ford
Price List of the Instruments Described, made by the author, And Sold at 4 & 5, Great Turnstile, Holborn, London, W.C.
in William Ford Stanley, Mathematical Drawing and Measuring Instruments, ... (sixth edition; London: E. & F. N. Spon & the Author, 1888), pp. 337-346.
[Unknown]
1888
U Steele, Richard
"On John Rowley's Orrery"
Paper no. 11 [October 29, 1713] in The Englishman. Being the Sequel of the Guardian (London: Printed by Sam. Buckley in Amen-Corner. 1714), pp. 50-53. 12mo. Formerly the property of Martin Brathwait, and George Wiluious. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
1714
U Syndram, Dirk (ed.)
Wissenschaftliche Instrumente und Sonnenuhren
Kunstgewerbesammlung der Stadt Bielefeld / Stiftung Huelsmann Kataloge der Kunstgewerbesammlung / Stiftung Huelsmann, bd.1. Munchen: Callwey, 1989. Presented by the issuing museums
[1989-182]
1989
U Turner, G. L'E.
"The apparatus of science"
offprint{?} from History of Science, vol. ix, 1970, pp. 729-738. Review of the book by D. P. Wheatland.
[1971-94]
1970
U Vertice
Vertice: Revista de Cultura E Arte
(Publicacao Mensal). Coimbra; vol. XXVI, no. 271-272, p. 241 a 376, Apr.-May 1966; vol. XXVII, no. 280-281, p. 1 a 128, Jan.-Feb. 1967; vol. XXVII, no. 287, p. 497 a 576, Aug. 1967; vol. XXVII, no. 288, p. 577 a 656, Sept. 1967; vol. XXVII, no. 291, p. 817 a 896, Dec. 1967; vol. XXVI, no. 277-278, p. 649 a 776, Oct.-Nov. 1966. Shelved under Alburquerque
[1972-52]
1966-1967
U Wade, C. P.
Catalogue of the Admiral's Room, Snowshill Manor, Gloucestershire
xerographic copy of manuscript.
[1965-373]
[n.d.]
U Ward, F. A. B.
Handbook of the Collections Illustrating Time Measurement: Part II. - Descriptive Catalogue
Board of Education, Science Museum. London: HMSO., 1937.
[Unknown]
1937
U Watson & Sons, W.
Microscopes and Accessories
(Cataloge). London, May 1939.
[Unknown]
1939
U Watson & Sons, W.
Objects for the Microscope
(Catalogue). London, [c.1935].
[Unknown]
1935?
U Weld, C. R.
Report on Philosophical Instruments and Apparatus for Teaching Science. - (Class 12)
Reprinted from Reports on the Paris Exhibition [of 1867]. (Binding is inscribed "Athenaeum 1915" and "Survey Instruments. Lyons"). Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
1867?
U Wiesbaden, Stadtisches Museum
5000 Jahre Vermessungswesen
exhibition catalogue, 1-8 Sept., 1971.
[1971-114]
1971
U Wilkes, J.
Encyclopaedia Londinensis, or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature
Compiled by J. Wilkes. Published in 24 volumes. London, 1810-29. Vol. 1-22 edited by J. Jones, vol. 23, 24, edited by G. Jones. Various plates, contained in three vols., numbered 4, 5, and 20, only.
[Unknown]
1810-1829
U Wood, James L.
Early Gas Making
The Royal Scottish Museum Leaflet 5. Edinburgh: Printed for H.M.S.O., 1982. (Shelved under Royal Scottish Museum.) Presented by the Librarian, Royal Scottish Museum.
[1983-200]
1982
U Yalden, J. Ernest G.
"Dialling"
in The Industrial Museum of New York, vol. 1 no. 1, pp. 19-57. (Shelved under Industrial Museum).
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
U [Petrie, William]
The Apostadometer. A New Surveying Instrument for Measuring the Distances of Inaccessible Objects by a Direct Reading Without Calculation, Giving also their Right Angled Direction | Applicable for Various Purposes, but Especially for Taking Offsets
Registered for William Petrie, Esq., by the sole makers, Holtzapffel & Co., Engine, Lathe, and Tool Manufacturers, 64, Charing Cross, and 127, Long Acre, London. 4 pages. Photocopy of original in the Whipple Museum of the History of Science, Cambridge.
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
U [Tuttel, Thomas]
The Use Of the Mathematical Playing-Cards, Invented by the late Ingenious Mr. Tuttel. Wherein All the Instruments are exactly deliniated, and Historically apply'd to their various Uses
London: These Cards are sold by J. Lenthall, Stationer, at the Talbot near St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-Street. 1717. Photocopy (from Bodleian 187. g. 17 (3)).
[1967-300]
1717
U (Adams)Gale, John
Appendix to Mr. Adams's Geometrical and Graphical Essays: Containing A Table of the Quantity of Northing, Southing, Easting, and Westing, Made on any Course, to every Degree and Fifteenth Minute of the Quadrant, at any Distance from 1 to 100
London: Printed by R. Hindmarsh, 1791. Bound with George Adams, Plates to the Geometrical and Graphical Essays (2nd edition, revised by William Jones, 1797).
[Unknown]
1791
U (Adams)Jones, W. & S.
A Catalogue of Optical, Mathematical, and Philosophical Instruments, Made and Sold by W. and S. Jones, [No. 135,] Next Furnival's-Inn, Holborn, London
[1797]. 14 pages, followed by a 2-page list of books by George Adams sold by W. & S. Jones, dated Dec. 1, 1797. Bound with George Adams, Plates to the Geometrical and Graphical Essays (2nd edition, revised by William Jones, 1797).
[Unknown]
1797
U (Bushell)Michel, Henri
"The First Barometer: A Rediscovery in Flemish Paintings"
in The Journal of the Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore), vol. XXXV, 1977, pp. 88-92.
[Unknown]
1977
U (Bushell)Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore
The Journal of the Walters Art Gallery
Volume XXXV, 1977. Contains articles by Bushell (on netsuke) and Michel.
[Unknown]
1977
U (Fale)Blagrave, John
The Art of Dyalling in Two Parts
The first shewing plainly, and in a manner mechanichally to make dyals to all plaines, either Horizontall, Murall, declining, reclining or inclining, with the theoricke of the Arte. The second how to performe the selfe same, in a more artificiall kinde, and without use of Arithmeticke, together with concave and convex Dyals, and the inserting of the 12. signes, and the howres of any other country in any dyall, with many other things to the same Art appertaining. ... By John Blagrave of Reading Gentleman ... At London, Printed by N.O. for Simon Waterson, ... 1609 4to. Bound with T. Fale, Dyalling. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
1609
U (Halliwell)Bourne, William
"A Treatise on the Properties and Qualities of Glasses for Optical Purposes, According to the Making, Polishing, and Grinding of them"
in James Orchard Halliwell (ed.), Rara Mathematica ... (London: John William Parker, 1839), pp. 32-47. Taken from MS Lansd. Mus. Brit. 121.
[Unknown]
1839
U (Helden)Osiris
Instruments
Edited by Albert Van Helden and Thomas L. Hankins; Osiris; Second series, vol. 9, 1994; Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1994
[1996-44]
1994
U (Janin)Ben-Layish, Dov
"Some Sundials in the Collection of the National Maritime Museum"
in Sefunim (Bulletin), VI Arie L. Ben-Eli Memorial vol. 1981, pp. 78-80 & plate XI.
[Unknown]
1981
U (Janin)Melun, Charlotte
"A Miniature World Map by Jodocus Hondius (1563-1611)"
in Sefunim (Bulletin), VI Arie L. Ben-Eli Memorial vol. 1981, pp. 93-94 & plate XIV.
[Unknown]
1981
U (Janin)Rohr, Rene R. J.
"Un Cadran Solaire Equatorial et un Graphometre au Musee National Maritime Haifa"
in Sefunim (Bulletin), VI Arie L. Ben-Eli Memorial vol. 1981, pp. 72-77 & plate XV.
[Unknown]
1981
U (Jones)Gibb, Sir Claude
"The Story of the Turbine, Steam and Gas"
in Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, vol. 36 part 3 no. 164, 1957 (1967), pp. 589-611. Filed under Sir Harold Spencer Jones, "Orreries and Planetariums".
[Unknown]
1967
U (Jones)Perrin, Michael W.
"The Constitution and Aims of the Wellcome Foundation"
in Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, vol. 36 part 3 no. 164, 1957 (1967), pp. 750-776. Filed under Sir Harold Spencer Jones, "Orreries and Planetariums".
[Unknown]
1967
U (Jones)Royal Institution
Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain
vol. XXXVI part 3 no. 164, 1957.
[Unknown]
1957
U (Lloyd)Hughes, G. Bernard
"English domestic locks"
in The Connoisseur Year Book, 1957, pp. 100-108. Filed under H. Alan Lloyd, "A Sixteenth Century mechanical globe".
[1958-88]
1957
U (Martin)Ayscough, James
A Short Account of the Eye, and Nature of Vision. Chiefly designed to Illustrate the Use and Advantage of Spectacles ...
London: 1752. Bound with Benjamin Martin, Air-Pump, and other works.
[Unknown]
1752
U (Martin)Webster, William
The Description and Use of a Complete Sett or Case of Pocket-Instruments: containing the Construction of the several Lines laid down on the Plain-Scale, and Sector; with their Application, in a variety of Mathematical Problems
London: 1739. Second edition. Bound with Benjamin Martin, Air-Pump, & other works.
[Unknown]
1739
U (Missing)Price, Derek J. (ed.)
The Equatorie of the Planetis
Edited from Peterhouse MS. 75. I by Derek J. Price with a Linguistic Analysis by R. M. Wilson, M. A. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1955. Possible author - Geoffrey Chaucer.
[1955- ]
1955
U (Museo Nacional)Sebastian, Amparo; Aldea, Jose Alberto (eds.)
Abriendo las Puertas de la Ciencia: Una visita al nucleo de las colecciones del Museo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia: Guia didactica
Museo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia, octubre de 1997 a enero de 1998. Madrid: Ministerio de Educacion y Cultura, 1997. Exhibition catalogue. Presented by the Museo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia
[1997-144]
1997
U (Newcomen)Chilton, D.
"Land Measurement in the Sixteenth Century"
in Transactions of the Newcomen Society, vol. XXXI, 1957-1958 and 1958-1959, pp. 111-129.
[Unknown]
1957-1959
U (Newcomen)Davison, C. St. C. B.
"Landmarks in the History of Weighing and Measuring"
in Transactions of the Newcomen Society, vol. XXXI, 1957-1958 and 1958-1959, pp. 131-152.
[Unknown]
1957-1959
U (Newcomen)Flinn, Michael W.
"The Travel Diaries of Swedish Engineers of the Eighteenth Century as Sources of Technological History"
in Transactions of the Newcomen Society, vol. XXXI, 1957-1958 and 1958-1959, pp. 95-109
[Unknown]
1957-1959
U (Newcomen)Harris, L. E.
"Cornelis Drebbel: A Neglected Genius of Seventeenth Century Technology"
in Transactions of the Newcomen Society, vol. XXXI, 1957-1958 and 1958-1959, pp. 195-204.
[Unknown]
1957-1959
U (Newcomen)Wailes, Rex
"Essex Windmills"
in Transactions of the Newcomen Society, vol. XXXI, 1957-1958 and 1958-1959, pp. 153-180. (See also other papers on windmills in the same volume).
[Unknown]
1957-1959
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Ackermann, Silke (ed.)
Humphrey Cole: Mint, Measurement and Maps in Elizabethan England
British Museum Occasional Paper no. 126. London: The British Museum, 1998. (Comprises catalogue of a temporary exhibition, and introductory essays by G. L'E. Turner, Peter Barber, James McDermott, B. J. Cook.) Presented by the publisher.
[1998-75]
1998
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Agostino, S. D'; Ianniello, M. G.
Catalogo Strumenti
Museo dell' Istituto di Fisica dell' Universita di Roma. Catalogo della collezione di strumenti elettrici e magnetici, 1979.
[1979-281]
1979
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Anderson, R. G. W.
Science in India
A 'Festival of India' exhibition at the Science Museum, London. 24 March - 1 August 1982. Catalogue compiled by R. G. W. Anderson with an Introduction by M. G. K. Menon. London: Science Museum, 1982. Presented by Dr R. G. W. Anderson
[1985-173]
1982
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Anonymous
Le Materiau Verre dans la Construction: Eclairage Naturel et Isolation
Paris: Editions R.-L. Dupuy, 1953. (Instrument, the 'horizontoscope', pp. 16-24.) Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1989-205]
1953
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Barnard, Francis Pierrepont
The Casting-Counter and the Counting-Board: A Chapter in the History of Numismatics and Early Arithmetic
Oxford, at the Clarendon Press. 1916. Presented by W. Collier, M.D. (* letter).
[Unknown]
1916
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Bennett, J. A.
A Decade of Accessions: Selected Instruments Acquired by the Whipple Museum of the History of Science between 1980 and 1990
Cambridge: Whipple Museum of the History of Science, 1992. Presented by the publisher.
[1992-66]
1992
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Bennett, J. A.
Le Citoyen Lenoir: Scientific Instrument Making in Revolutionary France
A special exhibition to mark the bicentenary of the French Revolution. Cambridge: Whipple Museum of the History of Science, 1989. Presented by the publisher.
[1991-183]
1989
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Bennett, J. A.
Science at the Great Exhibition
Published to accompany a special exhibition at the Whipple Museum of the History of Science. Cambridge: Whipple Museum of the History of Science, 1983. Presented by David Berry, Esq.
[2004-48]
1983
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Bennett, J. A.; Brown, Olivia
The Compleat Surveyor
Published to accompany a special exhibition at the Whipple Museum of the History of Science. (Includes "Bibliography: A List of Books on Surveying, in the Whipple Library", compiled by Jenny Harper.) Cambridge: Whipple Museum of the History of Science, 1982.
[1982-11]
1982
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Bennett, Jim
The Measurers: A Flemish Image of Mathematics in the Sixteenth Century
Catalogue of the Exhibition. Oxford: Museum of the History of Science, 1995.
[1995-80]
1995
U (Open shelf - oversize)Bloomfield, Alan.
A description of the Wallingford clock at St. Albans Cathedral
[S.l. : s.n., 2009?] Presented by Keith Powell. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
2009?
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Bono, Edward de (ed.)
Eureka! How and When the Greatest Inventions were made: An Illustrated History of Inventions from the Wheel to the Computer
London: Thames & Hudson, 1979
[1983-180]
1979
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Brieux, Alain
"Une Officine de Faussaires"
offprint from Art et Curiosite, Janvier-Fevrier 1975, pp. 34-42.
[Unknown]
1975
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Brock, Sheila
The Great Michael
The Royal Scottish Museum Leaflet 1. Edinburgh: Produced for the Royal Scottish Museum and Printed in Scotland for H.M.S.O., 1981. (Shelved under Royal Scottish Museum.) Presented by the Librarian, Royal Scottish Museum.
[1983-200]
1981
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Brock, Sheila
The Bolton Hearse
The Royal Scottish Museum Leaflet 4. Edinburgh: Printed for H.M.S.O., n.d. [1982]. (Shelved under Royal Scottish Museum.) Presented by the Librarian, Royal Scottish Museum.
[1983-200]
1982?
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Bryden, D. J.
Scottish Scientific Instrument-Makers 1600-1900
Royal Scottish Museum Information Series - Technology, 1. Edinburgh: Royal Scottish Museum, December 1972.
[1978-479]
1972
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Bunyan, Ian
Turtles from British Waters
Leaflet 8. Edinburgh: The Royal Scottish Museum, 1983. (Shelved under Royal Scottish Museum.) Presented by the publisher.
[1988-47/2]
1983
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Bunyan, Ian
Fossil Footprints
Leaflet 9. Edinburgh: The Royal Scottish Museum, 1983. (Shelved under Royal Scottish Museum.) Presented by the Librarian, Royal Scottish Museum.
[1988-48]
1983
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Burge, Len
Cornish Church Sundials Surveyed and Investigated
Truro: Len Burge, 2002
[2004-18]
2002
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Calder, Jenni
Masks of the Northwest Coast Indians
Edinburgh: The Royal Scottish Museum, 1983. Leaflet 7. (Shelved under Royal Scottish Museum.) Presented by the publisher.
[1988-47/1]
1983
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Camerota, Filippo
Il compasso geometrico e militare di Galileo Galilei = The geometric and military compass of Galileo Galilei
With CD-ROM. Text in Italian and English. Firenze: Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, 2004. Presented by the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2005-88]
2004
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Camp, Karel J. van; Dorikens, M.; Dorikens-Vanpraet, L.
Schatten op Zolder: tentoonstelling van wetenschappelijke instrumenten gebruikt in onderzoek en onderwijs in Antwerpen tussen 1750 en 1950, 18 oktober 1999 - 31 juli 2000
Gent: Museum voor de Geschiedenis van de Wetenschappen, 1999. Presented by M. Dorikens. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2005-16]
1999
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Centre Georges Pompidou
Sciences
C'est l'an 2000, il fait vraiment un temps de temps. Le Temps, Vite Exposition, Centre Pompidou, Galerie 1, du 13 Janvier ou 17 Avril 2000. Belgique: Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon, 2000. The Museum of the History of Science lent objects to this exhibition.
[2002-105]
2000
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Centre Georges Pompidou
Vite Magazine
Magazine for the Le Temps, Vite exhibition held in the Pompidou Centre from 12 January to 17 April 2000. The Museum of the History of Science lent objects to this exhibition.
[2002-106]
2000
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Chapuis, Alfred; Droz, Edmond
Automata: A Historical and Technological Study
Translated by Alec Reid. Neuchatel: Editions du Griffon, 1958.
[1973-9]
1958
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Chenakal, V. L.
Russian Tool and Instrument Makers of 18th Century (Russkie Priborostroiteli Pervoi Poloviny XVIII Veka)
Leningradskoe Gazetno-Zhurnal'noe i Knizhnoe Izdatel'stvo, Leningrad, 1953; Translated from Russian; New Delhi: Published for the Smithsonian Institution and the National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C. by the Indian National Scientific Documentation Centre, 1976; Photocopy from a microfilm issued by the National Technical Information Service, U. S. Department of Commerce; Presented by Rogers Turner Books Ltd.
[1991-124]
1953
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Clarke, T. N.; Morrison-Low, A. D.; Simpson, A. D. C.
Brass & Glass: Scientific Instrument Making Workshops in Scotland as illustrated by instruments from the Arthur Frank Collection at the Royal Museum of Scotland
[Edinburgh]: National Museums of Scotland, 1989. Presented by the publisher
[1991-197]
1989
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Comite Arctique de Monaco
Congres sur l'Histoire de la Decouverte des Regions Arctiques d'Apres les Recits des Voyageurs et les Travaux des Cartographes de la Haute Antiquite au XVIIIe S
Rome, 5-9 Octobre 1981. Exposition de pieces d'archives, cartes, gravures, eaux-fortes et dessins relatifs aux regions septentrionales. Vatican City: Bibliotheque Apostolique Vaticane, 1981. Shelved under Vatican.
[1982-5]
1981
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Cowham, Mike (ed.)
Sundials of the British Isles: A Selection of Some of the Finest Sundials from our Islands
Cambridge: M.J. Cowham, 2005.
[2005-178]
2005
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Cuningham, William
The Cosmographical Glasse (London 1559)
Facsimile no. 44 The English Experience; Amsterdam 1968
[1974-139]
1968
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Daniel, Christopher
The equation of time : the invention of the analemma ; a brief history of the subject
British Sundial Society Monograph No. 1. London : British Sundial Society c/o Royal Astronomical Society, 2013. Part of donation from Christopher Daniel, July 2013.
[2014-140/1]
2013
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Daniel, Christopher St. J. H.
The Sundial Page
From Clocks Magazine. (1988-2008) 244 Monthly Articles. Christopher St. J. H. Daniel and Clocks Magazine - Splat Publications, 2015. Ex Libris Christopher St. J. H. Daniel.
[2019-17]
2015
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Dibner, Bern
Leonardo da Vinci: Machines and Weaponry
Burndy Library 1974. Publication no. 29. (Reprinted from Ladislao Reti (ed.), The Unknown Leonardo.) Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1975-27]
1974
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Draaisma, D. (ed.)
Een Laboratorium voor de ziel: Gerard Heymans en het begin van de experimentele psychologie
Groningen: Historische Uitgeverij, Universiteitsmuseum, 1992. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2006-80]
1992
U (Open Shelf - oversize)European Institute of the Mediterranean
Mediterraneum: Splendour of the Medieval Mediterranean: 13th - 15th Centuries
Barcelona: Lunwerg Editores, 2004. Presented by the publisher. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2004-96]
2004
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Fischer, Joachim
"Zur Geschichte der Mathematischen Instrumente aus der Herstellung der Firma A. Ott, Kempten"
in OTT Messtechnik, Eine Reise durch Technik und Zeit: 125 Jahre OTT (Kempten, Germany, 1998), pp. 159-183. Presented by Professor Joachim Fischer.
[1999-7]
1998
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Fontana, Francisco
New observations of heavenly and earthly objects by Francesco Fontana, with the aid of optical instruments devised by him and brought to the highest state of perfection. Printed at Naples by Gaffaro, February 1646 with the permission of his superiors.
Translated from the Latin and annotated by Peter Fay and Sally Beaumont. Cover title: 'Fontana of Naples, A Contemporary of Galileo: New Discoveries made with his own Telescopes & Microscopes. [s.l.]: Sally Beaumont and Peter Fay, 2001. Presented by the translators.
[2002-53]
2001
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Fontana, Francisco
Novae Coelestivm, terrestrivmq rervm observationes, Et fortasse hactenus non uulgatoe.
Specillis a se inventis, Et adsummam perfectionem perductis, editoe. Neapoli, superiorum permissu apud Gaffarum, mense Februaru, 1646. [s.l.]: reprinted, published and edited by Peter Fay and Sally Beaumont, 2001. Presented by the authors.
[2002-54]
2001
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Fritsch, Julia (ed.)
Ces curieux navires: Trois automates de la Renaissance
Paris: Reunion des Musees Nationaux, 1999. Includes catalogue of an exhibition. (Contributors: Julia Fritsch, Nadja Zweigler, J. H. Leopold, Jan Jaap, L. Haspels, Eric Rieth, Isabelle de Conihout.) Transferred from the Ashmolean Museum. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1999-40]
1999
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Grotzsch, Helmut
Dresden Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon
Leipzig: E. A. Seemann, 1978. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1980-5]
1978
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Gudmundsen, John (ed.)
A Pictorial History of Science and Engineering: The Story of Man's Technological and Scientific Progress from the Dawn of History to the Present, told in 1,000 pictures and 75,000 words
Foreword by Bertrand Russell. [New York]: published by the Editors of "Year" and "News Front", [c.1958]. (Note especially illustrations on pp. 57, 96, and 99 from this museum.)
[Unknown]
1958?
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Gurley, W; Gurley, L. E.
A Manual of the Principal Instruments used in American Engineering and Surveying Manufactured by W. & L. E. Gurley, Troy, N. Y.
19th ed. Troy, N. Y.: W. & L. E. Gurley, 1873. Photocopy.
[1975-63]
1873
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Hackmann, Willem D.
Scientific Amusement Arcade
An exhibition commemorating the 150th Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Oxford. N.p., n.d. [1988; printed Banbury, Oxfordshire]. Together with loosely enclosed Phenakistoscope.
[1988-143]
1988?
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Halleux, Robert (ed.)
Les Mecanismes du Genie: Instruments Scientifiques des XVIIIe et XIXe Siecles
Collection du Cabinet de Physique et de l'Observatoire Astronomique de l'Universite de Coimbra. Charleroi, Palais des Beaux-Arts 21 Septembre-22 Decembre 1991. Charleroi: [?] Ville de Charleroi [?etc.], 1991. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1991-205]
1991
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Halleux, Robert (ed.) ; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi
Catalogus: Genius ex Machina: Wetenschappelijke Instrumenten uit de 18de en 19de Eeuw
Verzameling van de Universiteit van Coimbra. Charleroi Palais des Beaux-Arts 21.IX.1991-22.XII.1991. Beknopte samenvatting. (Summary catalogue in Flemish, accompanying Les Mecanismes du Genie ... ; by Robert Halleux & others).
[1991-206]
1991
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Heywood, H.
An Illustrated Catalogue of Scientific Instruments Owned by the Most Honourable the Marquess of Bath
Compiled by Dr H. Heywood, D.Sc., Ph.D., M.I.Mech.E. during the period 1952 to 1954. Photocopy.
[Unknown]
1952-1954
U (Open Shelf - oversize)High Commission for the Development of Arriyadh
Islamic Science and Learning
Washington D.C. July 1989. Washington, D.C.: High Commission for the Development of Arriyadh, 1989. (Exhibition catalogue). Presented by the publisher Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1991-17]
1989
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Higton, Hester; Ackermann, Silke; Dunn, Richard; Takada, Kiyoshi; Turner, Anthony
Sundials at Greenwich: a Catalogue of the Sundials, Nocturnals, and Horary Quadrants in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Presented by the publisher.
[2005-99]
2002
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Holbrook, Mary
A Girdle Round About the Earth: Astronomical and Geographical discovery, 1460-1630
Catalogue of an exhibition mounted by the Bath Festival Society and the Holburne of Menstrie Museum. 27th April-30th June, 1974.
[1974-103]
1974
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Homet, Jean-Marie
Les Cadrans Solaires
Paris: Ch. Massin, [c.1983]. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1984-143]
1983?
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Josten, C. H.
Scientific Instruments (13th-19th Century): The Collection of J. A. Billmeir Esq. / Exhibited by Frank Partridge & Sons 144-146 New Bond Street, London, W. 1. and the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford.
[Oxford]: Chiswick Press, 1954.
[1954- ]
1954
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Josten, C. H.
Scientific Instruments (13th-19th Century): The Collection of J. A. Billmeir C.B.E. / Exhibited by the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford.
2nd ed. [Oxford]: Chiswick Press, 1955.
[Unknown]
1955
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Kenney, Cyril Ernest
The Quadrant and the Quill: a book written in honour of Captain Samuel Sturmy, "a tryed and trusty Sea-man," and author of The Mariner's Magazine, 1669
London: the Author, 1944. Formerly the property of M. Webster (*)
[1957-99]
1944
U (Open Shelf - oversize)King, W. James
"The Natural Philosophy of William Gilbert and His Predecessors"
Paper 8 in the series Contributions from The Museum of History and Technology, pp. 121-139. Bulletin 218 of the United States National Museum. (Papers 1-11). Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 1959. (Shelved under Price.)
[1959-108]
1959
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Lennox-Boyd, Mark
Sundials: History, Art, People, Science
London: Frances Lincoln, 2006. Presented by the publisher.
[2006-43]
2006
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Lossai, Peter
Notationes et delineatationes [i.e. delineationes], 1498: Az Orszagos Szechenyi Konyvtar Cod. Lat. 197 jelu kodexe
Szerkesztettek Poronyi Zoltan es Fleck Alajos. [Pecs]: [Pecsi Geodeziai es Terkepeszeti Vallalat], [1969?]. Presented by Alajos Fleck Esq., per the Bodleian Library. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2005-60]
1969?
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Marney, Patrick; McConnell, Anita
Diagonal and Reticulated Barometers
in Antique Collecting, Vol. 36, No. 10, April 2002, Horological Issue. pp 19-23. Donated by the author, Anita McConnell.
[2002-48]
2002
U (Open Shelf - oversize)McConnell, Anita
Geophysics & Geomagnetism: Catalogue of the Science Museum Collection
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1986
[1992-17]
1986
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Mensing Collection
Collection Ant. W. M. Mensing, Amsterdam: Old Scientific Instruments (1479-1800)
Catalogued by Max Engelmann. Two volumes: vol. I. Text; vol. II. Plates. Amsterdam, Frederik Muller & Co (Ant. W. M. Mensing). 1924. 4 copies. Gunther Loan Collection
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1924
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Meskens, Ad
Wiskunde Tussen Renaissance en Barok: Aspecten van Wiskunde-Beoefening te Antwerpen 1550-1620
Publikaties van de Stadsbibliotheek en het Archief en Museum voor het Vlaamse Cultuurleven 41-43. Antwerp: Archief en Museum voor het Vlaamse Cultuurleven, [?1994].
[1996-82]
1994?
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Millburn, John R.
The Ordnance Records as a Source for Studies of Instruments & their Makers in the Eighteenth Century
Aylesbury: [the author], 1992. Presented by the author.
[1992-88]
1992
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Millburn, John R.
Instrument-Makers' Ordnance Bills Transcribed from Ordnance Bill Books (Classes WO51, 52) at the Public Record Office, Kew
Aylesbury: [privately printed], 1992. Presented by the author.
[1992-87]
1992
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Mollan, Charles
Irish National Inventory of Historic Scientific Instruments
Blackrock, Co. Dublin: Samton Limited, 1995
[1996-32]
1995
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Mollan, Charles
The Mind and the Hand: Instruments of Science 1685-1932
Exhibition in the Colonnades Gallery Old Library Trinity College Dublin February-December 1995. Blackrock, Co. Dublin: Samton Limited for TCD, 1995. Presented by the author
[1995-26]
1995
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Mollan, Charles; Upton, John
The Scientific Apparatus of Nicholas Callan and Other Historic Instruments
Catalogues of Historic Scientific Instruments in Irish Collections no. 1. Maynooth & Blackrock, Ireland: St Patrick's College Maynooth and Samton Limited, 1994
[1995-24]
1994
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Mooij, J.
Instrumenten, Wetenschap en Samenleving: Geschiedenis van de instrumentenfabricage en -handel in Nederland 1840-1940
[s.l.]: [s.n.], [?1988] Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1995-27]
1988?
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Motais de Narbonne, Anne-Marie; Alexandre, Josette
Une Mesure Revolutionnaire: Le Metre
2nd ed. Paris: Observatoire de Paris, 1988. (Accompanies a dossier of documents & study materials.) In folder, shelved under Observatoire de Paris.
[1989-154/1]
1988
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Murdoch, Tessa
The Quiet Conquest: The Huguenots 1685-1985: A Museum of London exhibition in association with the Huguenot Society of London 15 May to 31 October 1985.
London: Museum of London in association with A. H. Jolly (Editorial) Limited, 1985. Presented by the publisher.
[1985-109]
1985
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Musee du Petit Palais (Paris, France)
De l'Empire romain aux Villes imperiales: 600 ans d'art au Maroc
Paris: Musee du Petit Palais, 1990. Presented by the publishers.
[2005-11]
1990
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Museo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia
Abriendo las Puertas de la Ciencia: Una visita al nucleo de las colecciones del Museo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia: Guia didactica
Exhibition catalogue. Museo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia, octubre de 1997 a enero de 1998. Madrid: Ministerio de Educacion y Cultura, 1997. Presented by the Museo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1997-144]
1997
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Museum Boerhaave
Science in the Provinces: A descriptive Catalogue of the 'Deventer' Collection
Communication no. 296. Leiden: Museum Boerhaave, 2002. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2003-39]
2002
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Morzer Bruyns, W. F. J. (Willem Frederik Jacob), 1943- ; National Maritime Museum (Great Britain)
Sextants at Greenwich : a catalogue of the mariner's quadrants, mariner's astrolabes, cross-staffs, backstaffs, octants, sextants, quintants, reflecting circles and artificial horizons in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
/ W.F.J. Morzer Bruyns ; with a contribution by Richard Dunn. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009.
2009
U (Open Shelf - oversize)National Folk Museum of Korea
Heaven and Man, Principles and Ideals
[Seoul?]: National Folk Museum of Korea, 2004. Exhibition catalogue. Presented by the publisher.
[2004-105]
2004
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Newville, Leslie J.
"Development of the Phonograph at Alexander Graham Bell's Volta Laboratory"
Paper 5 in the series Contributions from The Museum of History and Technology, pp. 69-79. Bulletin 218 of the United States National Museum. (Papers 1-11). Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 1959. (Shelved under Price.)
[1959-108]
1959
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Nuttall, R. H.
The Arthur Frank Loan Collection: Early Scientific Instruments
Glasgow: Charles Frank Limited, 1973.
[1973-55]
1973
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Observatoire de Paris
Une Mesure Revolutionnaire: Le Metre
Paris: Observatoire de Paris, 1988. (Dossier of copied documents and study materials; accompanied by a pamphlet written by Anne-Marie Motais de Narbonne & Josette Alexandre).
[1989-154/2]
1988
U (Open Shelf - oversize)OTT Messtechnik
Eine Reise durch Technik und Zeit: 125 Jahre OTT
Kempten, Germany: OTT Messtechnik, 1998. (Contributions by Ulrike Mette, Friedrich L. Brand, Friedrich Gunneberg, Joachim Fischer, Hubert Sykora.) Presented by Professor Joachim Fischer. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1999-7]
1998
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Price, Derek de Solla
Gears from the Greeks: The Antikythera Mechanism - A Calendar Computer from ca. 80 B.C.
New York: Science History Publications, 1975.
[1978-552]
1975
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Price, Derek J. de Solla
"On the Origin of Clockwork, Perpetual Motion Devices and the Compass"
Paper 6 in the series Contributions from The Museum of History and Technology, pp. 81-112. Bulletin 218 of the United States National Museum. (Papers 1-11). Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 1959.
[1959-108]
1959
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Pyenson, Lewis; Gauvin, Jean-Francois (eds.)
The Art of Teaching Physics: The Eighteenth-Century Demonstration Apparatus of Jean Antoine Nollet.
Canada: Septentrion, 2002. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2002-82]
2002
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Rasl, Zdenek
Decorative Cast Ironwork: Catalogue of Artistic and Decorative Iron Castings from the 16th to 20th Centuries Preserved at the National Technical Museum of Prague
Prague: Narodni Technicke Muzeum, 1980
[1990-155]
1980
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Ricci, M. Basso; Cafarella, L.; Meloni, A.; Tucci, P.
Due Secoli di Strumenti Geomagnetici in Italia (1740-1971)
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica. Bologna: Editrice Compositori, 1997. Presented by Prof. G. L'E. Turner
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U (Open Shelf - oversize)Rijk, J. A. F. de
De Zon Als Klok Zonnewijzers
Uitgegeven bij gelegenheid van de voorjaarsmanifestatie: Zonnewijzers in Utrecht 1983 door De Zonnewijzerkring, Utrechts Universiteitsmuseum, Universiteitsbibliotheek Utrecht. Utrecht: 1983. (Together with a smaller booklet by de Rijk, Lesbrief Zonnewijzers, Utrecht: Utrechts Universiteitsmuseum, January 1983.) Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
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U (Open Shelf - oversize)Rijk, J. A. F. de
Lesbrief Zonnewijzers
Utrecht: Utrechts Universiteitsmuseum, January 1983. (Contained in de Rijk's De Zon Als Klok Zonnewijzers.)
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U (Open Shelf - oversize)Sanchez, Jose Ramon Bertomeu; Belmar, Antonio Garcia
Abriendo las Cajas Negras Coleccion de Instrumentos Cientificos de la Universitat de Valencia
Valencia: Universitat de Valencia, 2002. Presented by Dr Jim Bennett. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
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U (Open Shelf - oversize)Schilling, Margarete
Glocken: Gestalt Klang und Zier
Munchen: Verlag C. H. Beck; Dresden: VEB Verlag der Kunst, 1988. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
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U (Open Shelf - oversize)Schmidt, Rudolf
Projections of Earth and Space: Globes and Spheres from Three Centuries.
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1989
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Schmidt, Rudolf
The World In Your Hands: An Exhibition of Globes and Planetaria from the collection of Rudolf Schmidt.
An exhibition at Christies Great Rooms 25th August - 9th September, 1994 and at Museum Boerhaave 18th March - 24th September, 1995. [s.l.]: Christies and Museum Boerhaave, 1994. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
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U (Open shelf - oversize)Scientific Instrument Society ; [Museum of the History of Science, Oxford University]
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U (Open Shelf - oversize)Slovenske Technicke Muzeum
Slovenske Technicke Muzeum: Vyber zo zbierok
Slovenia: Slovenske Technicke Muzeum, [s.d.]. Presented by Ing. Labanic, Director of the Slovak Technical Museum. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
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U (Open Shelf - oversize)Smart, John E.
Clothes for the Job: Catalogue of the Collection in the Science Museum
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1985.
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U (Open Shelf - oversize)Stichting Vrijvrouwe van Renswoude
Naamlijst en korte beschrijving van alle de wis- en natuurkundige werktuigen behoorende aan de Stichting van wijlen Vrouwe Vrijvrouwe van Renswoude, in het Haagsche Burger-Weeshuis: zoo lase dezelve bevonden zyn, na de voltooying van de nieuwe zaal, in het jaar 1801
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U (Open Shelf - oversize)Stroffolino, Daniela
La Citta Misurata - Tecniche e Strumenti di Rilevamento nei Trattati a Stampa del Cinquecento
Introduzione di Cesare de Seta. Rome: Salerno Editrice, 1999. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
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U (Open Shelf - oversize)Terpstra, H.
Friesche Sterrekonst Geschiedenis van de Friese sterrenkunde en aanverwante wetenschappen door de eeuwen heen
Published for the 200th anniversary of the Planetarium of Eise Eisinga. Franeker: Uitgeverij T. Wever, 1981. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
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1981
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Thompson, Christine L.
The Albion Dog-Cart
Edinburgh: The Royal Scottish Museum, 1983. Leaflet 6. (Shelved under Royal Scottish Museum). Presented by The Royal Scottish Museum.
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1983
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Time Museum
The Time Museum: vol. I Time Measuring Instruments: Part 3 Water-clocks Sand-glasses Fire-clocks
by A. J. Turner; Catalogue of the Collection; General Editor: Bruce Chandler; Rockford: The Time Museum, 1984. Shelved under Turner.
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1984
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Turner, A. J.
From Pleasure and Profit to Science and Security: Etienne Lenoir and the Transformation of Precision Instrument-Making in France 1760-1830
Cambridge: The Whipple Museum of the History of Science, 1989
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1989
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Turner, A. J.
The Time Museum: vol. I Time Measuring Instruments: Part 3 Water-clocks Sand-glasses Fire-clocks
Catalogue of the Collection. Rockford: The Time Museum, 1984.
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1984
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Turner, A. J.
The Clockwork of the Heavens: An exhibition of astronomical clocks, watches and allied scientific instruments presented by Asprey and Company with the special help of Harriet Wynter and the collaboration of various museums and private collections.
London: Asprey & Co., November 1973.
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U (Open Shelf - oversize)Turner, A. J. (ed.)
Time
The Hague: [?] Tijd voor Tijd Foundation, 1990. Presented by the exhibition organisers. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
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U (Open Shelf - oversize)Turner, Gerard L'E. (ed.)
Storia delle Scienze: Gli Strumenti
Storia delle Scienze 1. ?2nd ed. Turin: Giulio Einaudi editore, 1991. Presented by Professor G. L'E. Turner
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U (Open Shelf - oversize)Turner, Gerard L'Estrange
Strumenti scientifici del Rinascimento italiano = Italian Renaissance Scientific Instruments
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U (Open Shelf - oversize)Turner, Helen (ed.)
An Elizabethan Gilded Pocket Sundial by Augustine Ryther, dated 1585
London: Trevor Philip & Sons, [s.d]
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U (Open Shelf - oversize)Utrecht Universiteitsmuseum
Oude karten & globes uit het bezit van de Universiteitsbibliotheek, het Universiteitsmuseum en het Geografisch Instituut der Rijksuniversiteit te Utrecht, 17 December 1964-14 January 1965, in het Universiteitsmuseum Trans 8 Utrecht
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U (Open Shelf - oversize)Vatican Library
Manoscritti Cartografici e Strumenti Scientifici nella Biblioteca Vaticana secc. XIV-XVII
Mostra organizzato in occasione della IX Conferenza internazionale di storia della cartografia (Giugno-Dicembre 1981). Vatican City: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 1981. (Compilers & contributors: Alfonso M. Stickler, Romain H. Rainero, Carlo Maccagni.)
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U (Open Shelf - oversize)Vaudour, Catherine
Musee le Secq des Tournelles Rouen
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U (Open Shelf - oversize)Vaudour, Catherine
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U (Open Shelf - oversize)Vaudour, Catherine
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U (Open Shelf - oversize)Vernet, Juan; Samso, Julio (?eds.)
Astronomical Instruments in Medieval Spain: Their Influence in Europe / Instrumentos Astronomicos en la Espana Medieval: Su Influencia en Europa
Exhibition catalogue, Junio-Julio, 1985, Santa Cruz de la Palma. [s.l.]: Ministerio de Cultura, Direccion General de Bellas Artes y Archivos, 1985. Presented by the publisher.
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U (Open Shelf - oversize)Vernet, Juan; Samso, Julio (eds.)
El Legado Cientifico Andalusi
Museo Arqueologico Nacional. Exhibition catalogue, Madrid Abril-Junio 1992. [Madrid]: Centro Nacional de Exposiciones, Ministerio de Cultura, Direccion General de Bellas Artes y Archivos [&] Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, Agencia Espanola De Cooperacion Internacional, Instituto De Cooperacion Con El Mundo Arabe, April 1992. Presented by the exhibition organisers.
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U (Open Shelf - oversize)Voice, Eric
A Catalogue of the Scientific & Navigational Instruments in the Admiral's Room, Snowshill Manor, nr. Broadway, Worcestershire
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U (Open Shelf - oversize)Ward, F. A. B.
A Catalogue of European Scientific Instruments in the Department of Medieval and Later Antiquities of the British Museum
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U (Open Shelf - oversize)Welsh, P. C.
"United States patents 1790-1870. New Uses for Old Ideas"
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U (Open Shelf - oversize)Whipple Museum of the History of Science ; Bennett, J. A. (James A.)
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1983
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Whipple Museum of the History of Science ; Bennett, J. A. (James A.)
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1984
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Whipple Museum of the History of Science ; Brown, Olivia, 1952-
Surveying [The Whipple Museum of the History of Science Catalogue 1]
Cambridge : The Museum, c1982. Millburn bequest.
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U (Open Shelf - oversize)Whipple Museum of the History of Science ; Brown, Olivia, 1952-
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1982
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Whipple Museum of the History of Science ; Brown, Olivia, 1952-
Spheres, globes & orreries [The Whipple Museum of the History of Science catalogue 4]
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U (Open Shelf - oversize)Whipple Museum of the History of Science ; Brown, Olivia, 1952-
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1986
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Whipple Museum of the History of Science ; Bryden, D. J.
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U (Open Shelf - oversize)Whipple Museum of the History of Science ; Lyall, Kenneth
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U (Open Shelf - oversize)Wilson, Jill
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U (Open Shelf - oversize)Wynter, Harriet; Turner, Anthony
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London: Studio Vista, 1975.
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U (Open Shelf - oversize) altDragoni, Giorgio; McConnell, Anita; Turner, Gerard L'E. (eds.)
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U (Open Shelf - oversize) altJones, David
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U (Open Shelf -oversize)Sawyer, Frederick W. (ed.)
The Analemmatic Sundial SourceBook, Including Recent Work and English Translations of Early Source Texts on the Analemmatic Sundial and the Variable-Center Dials that Derive from it. A Festschrift on the Tenth Anniversary of the North American Sundial Society, 2004.
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Mezzo Secolo di Fisica per gli Ingegneri : L'insegnamento di Eligio Perucca al Politecnico di Torino
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U (Open Shelf)Abraham, R. M.
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U (Open Shelf)Accademia Olimpica di Vicenza
Quando il Sole Misurava le Ore: Strumenti, Manoscritti e Libri di Gnomonica
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U (Open Shelf)Aguiar Aguilar, Maravillas; Gonzalez Marrero, Jose Antonio
Un texto valenciano del siglo XV: el tratado astronomico del Sexagenarium: comentario, edicion diplomatica y traduccion de la version valenciana y de su traduccion latina inacabada
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U (Open Shelf)Alberts, Gerard.
Collectie Nederland Oude Computers: Werkgroep Verzamelbeleid Computerhistorie
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U (Open Shelf)Allen, Cecil J.
A Century of Scientific Instrument Making 1853-1953
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U (Open Shelf)Ambler, L. T.
Early Science at Harvard: Innovators and their Instruments
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U (Open Shelf)Amelin, Olov
Medaljens Baksida: Instrumentmakaren Daniel Ekstro{}m och hans Efterfo{}ljare i 1700-talets Sverige
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U (Open Shelf)Andrewes, William J. H.
"The Life and Work of David Pingree Wheatland (1898-1993)"
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U (Open Shelf)Anonymous
"A Scientific Text of the Middle Ages"
extract from The Times Literary Supplement, June 3, 1955. Review of Derek J. Price (ed.), The Equatorie of the Planetis (Cambridge, 1955). Enclosed in Dr Crombie's copy of the book.
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U (Open Shelf)Archinard, Margarida
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U (Open Shelf)Archinard, Margarida
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U (Open Shelf)Archinard, Margarida
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U (Open Shelf)Archinard, Margarida
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U (Open Shelf)Augarde, Jean-Dominique
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U (Open Shelf)Augarten, Stan
Bit by Bit: An Illustrated History of Computers
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U (Open Shelf)Aveni, A. F. (ed.)
Archaeoastronomy in the New World
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U (Open Shelf)Bache, Mary
Salter: The Story of a Family Firm 1760-1960
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U (Open Shelf)Ball, W. W. R.; Petersen, J.; Carslaw, H. S.; Cajori, F.
String Figures and Other Monographs
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U (Open Shelf)Ball, W. W. Rouse
String Figures
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U (Open Shelf)Banfield, Edwin
Barometers: Wheel or Banjo
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U (Open Shelf)Banfield, Edwin
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U (Open Shelf)Banfield, Edwin
Barometers: Aneroid and Barographs
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U (Open Shelf)Banfield, Edwin
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U (Open Shelf)Barlow, William
Magneticall aduertisements: or Diuers pertinent obseruations, and approued experiments concerning the nature and properties of the load-stone: very pleasant for knowledge, and most needfull for practise, of trauelling, or framing of instruments fit for trauellers both by sea and land
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U (Open Shelf)Barlow, William
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U (Open Shelf)Basso, Maria Paula.
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U (Open Shelf)Baxandall, D.; Pugh, Jane
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U (Open Shelf)Bedini, Silvio A.
Thinkers and Tinkers: Early American Men of Science
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U (Open Shelf)Bedini, Silvio A.
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U (Open Shelf)Bedini, Silvio A.
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U (Open Shelf)Bedwell, William
Mesolabium architectionicum, that is, a most rare, and singular, instrument for the easie, speedy, and most certaine measuring of plaines and solids by the foote: Necessary to be knowne of all men whatsoeuer, who would not in this case be notably defrauded: Invented long since by Mr. Thomas Bedwell Esquire: And now published, and the Use thereof declared by Wilhelm Bedwell his nephew, Vicar of Tottenham. London, Printed by J.N. for William Garet, 1631.
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U (Open Shelf)Bell, G. H.; Bell, E. F.
Old English Barometers
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U (Open Shelf)Bell, R. C.
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U (Open Shelf)Bellucci, Gualtiero; Terenna, Gigliola; Vannozzi, Francesca
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U (Open Shelf)Belville, John Henry
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U (Open Shelf)Beretta, Marco; Galluzzi, Paolo; Triarico, Carlo (eds.)
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U (Open Shelf)Bergonzi, Benet
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U (Open Shelf)Bertele, H. von
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U (Open Shelf)Bertini, Silvia
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U (Open Shelf)Bettess, F.
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U (Open Shelf)Biggs, Norman
English Weights: An Illustrated Survey
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U (Open Shelf)Biggs, Norman
Apothecaries Weights: An Outline Catalogue
Llanfyllin, Powys [printed and distributed; actually published at Egham, Surrey]: White House Publications, 1994. Presented by the author.
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U (Open Shelf)Biggs, Norman
Bullion Weights: An Outline Catalogue
Llanfyllin, Powys [printed and distributed; actually published at Egham, Surrey]: White House Publications, 1995. Presented by the author.
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U (Open Shelf)Birrien, Jean-Yvon
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U (Open Shelf)Blondel, Christine
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U (Open Shelf)Blondel, Christine; Parot, Francoise; Turner, Anthony; Williams, Mari (eds.)
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U (Open Shelf)Brahe, Tycho
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U (Open Shelf)British Optical Instrument Manufacturers' Association
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U (Open Shelf)Club de Vieux Manoir
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U (Open Shelf)Cohen, I. Bernard
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U (Open Shelf)Comune di Padova
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U (Open Shelf)Crawforth, M. A.
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U (Open Shelf)Crommelin, C. A.
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U (Open Shelf)Daumas, Maurice
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U (Open Shelf)Davidson, Martin (ed.)
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U (Open Shelf)Debarbat, S.; Ten, A. (eds.)
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U (Open Shelf)Dekker, E.
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U (Open Shelf)Dekker, Elly
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U (Open Shelf)Delamain, R.
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U (Open Shelf)Demoriane, Helene
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U (Open Shelf)Detweiler, A.H.
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U (Open Shelf)Dibner, Bern
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U (Open Shelf)Digges, Thomas
The Theodelitus and Togographical Instrument of Leonard Diggs of University College, Oxford. Described by his Son Thomas Digges in 1571
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U (Open Shelf)Doorman, G.
Patents for Inventions in the Netherlands during the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries: with notes on the historical development of technics
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U (Open Shelf)Dreier, Franz Adrian
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U (Open Shelf)Drinkwater, Peter I.
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U (Open Shelf)Dubois, Jacques
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U (Open Shelf)DuBois, John L; Multhauf, Robert P; Ziegler, Charles A.
The Invention of the Radiosonde, with a catalog of Upper-Atmospheric Telemetering Probes in the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
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Theatrum Orbis Terrarum
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U (Open Shelf)Ferrari, Graziano (ed.)
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U (Open Shelf)Field, J. V.; Wright, M. T.
Early Gearing: Geared Mechanisms in the Ancient and Mediaeval World
Catalogue of an exhibition held in the Science Museum from March to September 1985. London: Science Museum, 1985. Presented by the publisher.
[1985-60]
1985
U (Open Shelf)Fischer, K. A. F.
"Meridian Instruments with Horizontal Optical Tube"
in Christine Blondel et al. (eds.), Studies in the History of Scientific Instruments (London, 1989), pp. 155-157.
[1990-12]
1989
U (Open Shelf)Forest
Catalogue de Globes et d'Appareils Cosmographiques
Facsimile reproduction of trade catalogue (Paris: Forest geographe editeur, [1919?]), London: Rogers Turner, 2004. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2004-114]
2004
U (Open Shelf)Freeth, Tony
The Antikythera Mechanism : decoding an Ancient Greek mystery : a brief research history
[Cambridge : Whipple Museum of the History of Science], c2008. Presented by the Whipple Museum. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2008-16]
2008
U (Open Shelf)Fremontier-Murphy, Camille
Les Instruments de Mathematiques XVIe - XVIIIe Siecle: Cadrans solaires, astrolabes, globes, necessaires de mathematiques, instruments d'arpentage, microscopes
Catalogue, Musee du Louvre, Department des Objects d'art. Paris: Reunion des Musees Nationaux, 2002. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2003-12]
2002
U (Open Shelf)Frezzotti, Renato; Terenna, Gigliola; Vannozzi, Francesca (eds.)
La Collezione degli Strumenti di Oculistica
Siena: Published by the Centro Universitario per la Tutela e la Valorizzazione dell' Antico Patrimonio Scientifico Senese (C.U.T.V.A.P.), 2000.
[2001-5]
2000
U (Open Shelf)Frow, George L.; Sefl, Albert F.
The Edison Cylinder Phonographs: A Detailed Account of the Entertainment Models until 1929
Sevenoaks, Kent: George L. Frow, 1978.
[1985-128]
1978
U (Open Shelf)Fulcrand, Jean; Bourge, Pierre
Midi au Soleil ... : Comment realiser un cadran solaire?
3e edition. Bazoches-sur-Hoene: Pierre Bourge - Auteur - editeur, Mars 1985. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1991-62]
1985
U (Open Shelf)Fundacion Carlos de Amberes
Instrumentos Cientificos del Siglo XVI: La Corte Espanola y la Escuela de Lovaina
Fundacion Carlos de Amberes, Madrid, 26 de noviembre de 1997 a 1 de febrero de 1998. Madrid: Fundacion Carlos de Amberes, 1997. Exhibition catalogue. Various authors (Koenraad van Cleempoel et al.); Responsables cientificos: Jacques Van Damme, Koenraad Van Cleempoel, Gerard L'E. Turner. Presented by the publisher.
[1997-120]
1998
U (Open Shelf)Fundacion Carlos de Amberes
Scientific Instruments in the Sixteenth Century: The Spanish Court and the Louvain School
Fundacion Carlos de Amberes, Madrid, 26 November 1997 - 1 February 1998. Madrid: Fundacion Carlos de Amberes, 1997. Exhibition catalogue. Various authors (Koenraad van Cleempoel et al.). Scientific Direction by Jacques Van Damme and Koenraad Van Cleempoel. Presented by the publisher. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1997-120/2]
1997
U (Open Shelf)Galileo Galilei
Operations of the Geometric and Military Compass 1606
Translated, with an introduction, by Stillman Drake. Dibner Library publication no. 1. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1981-74]
1978
U (Open Shelf)Gardner, Martin
Logic Machines and Diagrams
New York, Toronto, & London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1958.
[1962-121]
1958
U (Open Shelf)Gent, Rijks Universiteit
Tussen Kunst en Kennis: Een keuze uit de Gentse universitaire verzamelingen
Uit het Verleden van de RUG, Nr. 31; Tentoonstellingen Aula Voldersstraat, Gent 6 november 92-19 maart 93; Gent: Rijks Universiteit Gent, 1992; (Catalogue of series of four exhibitions marking the 175th anniversary of the university and drawn from all the university museums); written by K. Verlaeckt, et al. Presented by Professor G. L'E. Turner Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1998-51]
1992
U (Open Shelf)Giatti, Anna; Lotti, Stefania (eds.)
Le stanze della scienza: le collezioni dell'Istituto tecnico toscano a Firenze
Firenze: Fondazione Scienza e Tecnica, [2006]. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2006-51]
2006
U (Open Shelf)Gilbert, K. R.
Early Machine Tools
A Science Museum illustrated booklet. London: HMSO, 1975. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1981-124]
1975
U (Open Shelf)Gilbert, K. R.
Descriptive Catalogue of the Collection Illustrating Fire Fighting Appliances
Science Museum. London: H. M. S. O., 1969.
[1981-123]
1969
U (Open Shelf)Gillingham, Harrold E.
"The Cost of Old Silver"
offprint from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, January 1930, pp. 32-51. The Historical Society of Pennsylvania. The fourth of five articles, bound together. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
1930
U (Open Shelf)Gillingham, Harrold E.
"Old Business Cards of Philadelphia"
offprint from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, July 1929, pp. 203-229. The Historical Society of Pennsylvania. The third of five articles, bound together. Gunther Loan Collection (*) Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1940-6/ ]
1929
U (Open Shelf)Gillingham, Harrold E.
"Some Early Brickmakers of Philadelphia"
offprint from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, vol. LIII no. 1, January 1929, pp. 1-27. The Historical Society of Pennsylvania. The second of five articles, bound together. Gunther Loan Collection Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1940-6/ ]
1929
U (Open Shelf)Gillingham, Harrold E.
"Some Early Philadelphia Instrument Makers"
offprint from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, October 1927, separately paginated. The Historical Society of Pennsylvania. The first of five articles, bound together. Gunther Loan Collection (*) Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1940-6/ ]
1927
U (Open Shelf)Gillingham, Harrold E.
Various titles
Bound collection of five offprints, 1927-30, mostly from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography [see separate entries]; together with a letter to R. T. Gunther (1927) and a card announcing Gillingham's lecture on sundials (1930). Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
1927-1930
U (Open Shelf)Gillingham, Har[r]old E.
"Notes on Early Navigating Instruments"
extract from The Mariner, January 1930, pp. 3-8. The last of five articles, bound together. Gunther Loan Collection (*)
[1940-6/ ]
1930
U (Open Shelf)Girtin, Tom
The Mark of the Sword: A Narrative History of the Cutler's Company, 1189-1975.
London: Hutchinson Benham, 1975.
[2001-16]
1975
U (Open Shelf)Glasemann, Reinhard
Erde: Sonne; Mond & Sterne
Globen, Sonnenuhren und astronomische instrumente im Historischen Museum Frankfurt am Main. Schriften des Historischen Museums Frankfurt am Main, Band 20. Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Waldemar Kramer GmbH, 1999. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2003-23]
1999
U (Open Shelf)Goebel, Manfred [et al.]
Der Pantograph in historischen Veroffentlichungen des 17. bis 19. Jahrhunderts
Schriften zum Bibliotheks- und Buchereiwesen in Sachsen-Anhalt 84. Halle (Saale): Univ.- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, 2003. Also published as no. 4 in the series Reports on Didactics and History of Mathematics (Halle: Martin-Luther-Universitat, 2002) and available on-line at http://www.mathematik.uni-halle.de/reports. Presented by the first author.
[2004-120]
2003
U (Open Shelf)Gomme, Allan A.
Patents of Invention: Origin and Growth of the Patent System in Britain
In the series "Science in Britain". London, New York, & Toronto: Published for the British Council by Longmans Green & Co., 1946. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1946- ]
1946
U (Open Shelf)Goodison, Nicholas
English Barometers 1680-1860: A History of Domestic Barometers and their Makers and Retailers
Rev. and enl. ed. [Woodbridge, Eng.]: Antique Collectors' Club, 1977.
[1977-43]
1977
U (Open Shelf)Gotteland, Andree; Camus, Georges
Cadrans Solaires de Paris
Paris: CNRS Editions, 1993.
[1993-120]
1993
U (Open Shelf)Gould, D. W.
The Top: Universal Toy - Enduring Pastime
Folkestone: Bailey Brothers and Swinfen, 1975.
[1980-110]
1975
U (Open Shelf)Graham, J. T.
Scales and Balances: A Guide to Collecting
Shire Album 55; Third edition; Princes Risborough: Shire Publications, 1993
[1993-132]
1993
U (Open Shelf)Graham, J. T.
Weights and Measures and their Marks: A Guide to Collecting
Shire Album 44; Third edition; Princes Risborough: Shire Publications, 1993
[1993-131]
1993
U (Open Shelf)Granato, Marcus; Lourenco, Marta C. (eds.)
Scientific Instruments in the History of Science : Studies in transfer, use and preservation
Rio de Janeiro : Museu de Astronomia e Ciencias Afins, 2014. Offered to MHS at Scientific Instrument Symposium, Turin.
[2019-19]
2014
U (Open Shelf)Green, Arthur Robert
Sundials. Incised Dials or Mass-Clocks: A Study of the Time-Makers of Medieval Churches, Containing Descriptions, Photographs, Diagrams, and an Analysis of Dials, Chiefly in Hampshire, but also in various other Counties
2nd ed. London: S. P. C. K., 1978.
[1979-108]
1978
U (Open Shelf)Green, George; Lloyd, John T.
Kelvin's instruments and the Kelvin Museum
Glasgow: Glasgow University, 1970. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1970-114]
1970
U (Open Shelf)Grote, A.
Der vollkommen Architectus. Baumeister und Baubetrieb bis zum Anfang der Neuzeit
Band 13 in the series "Bibliothek des Germanischen National-Museums Nurnberg zur Deutschen Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte Herausgegeben" von Ludwig Grote. Munchen: Prestel Verlag, 1959.
[1961-146]
1959
U (Open Shelf)Gunter, Edmund
The Description and Use of his Maiesties Dials in White-Hall Garden. London, printed by Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie. 1624.
English experience, its record in early printed books published in facsimile, no. 465. Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum; New York: Da Capo Press, 1972. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1974-141]
1972
U (Open Shelf)Gunter, Edmund
Use of the Sector, Crosse-Staffe, and Other Instruments. For such as are studious of Mathematicall practise. At London Printed by Willia Jones and are to be sold by: Edmund Weauer. 1624
English experience, its record in early printed books published in facsimile, no. 422. Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum; New York: Da Capo Press, 1971.
[1974-142]
1971
U (Open Shelf)Gunther, R. T.
"The first observatory instruments of the Savilian Professors at Oxford"
offprint from The Observatory, vol. 60 no. 758, July 1937, pp. 190-197 and plates. (Bound copy). Presented by the author.
[Unknown]
1937
U (Open Shelf)Gunther, R. T.
Historic Instruments for the Advancement of Science: A Handbook to the Oxford Collections prepared for the Opening of the Lewis Evans Collection on May 5, 1925
London: Oxford University Press, 1925
[Unknown]
1925
U (Open Shelf)Guye, Samuel; Michel, Henri
Mesures du Temps et de l'Espace. Horloges, montres et instruments anciens
Paris: Bibliotheque des Arts, 1970. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1980-214]
1970
U (Open Shelf)Guyot, E.
Histoire de la determination de l'heure
La Chaux-de-Fonds: La Chambre Suisse de l'horlogerie, 1968. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1969-68]
1968
U (Open Shelf)Haasbroek, N. D.
Gemma Frisius, Tycho Brahe, and Snellius, and their Triangulations
Delft: Rijkscommissie voor Geodesie, 1968. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1979-272]
1968
U (Open Shelf)Habenicht, Wilfried; Holland, Rainer
Alte Quecksilber Barometer: Ihre Schonheit und Funktion
Bremen: [s.n.], 1977. Presented by the authors. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1978-01]
1977
U (Open Shelf)Hackmann, W. D.
"The Induction Coil in Medicine and Physics 1835-1877"
in Christine Blondel et al. (eds.), Studies in the History of Scientific Instruments (London, 1989), pp. 235-250.
[1990-12]
1989
U (Open Shelf)Hackmann, W. D.; Turner, A. J. (eds.)
Learning, Language and Invention: Essays Presented to Francis Maddison
Astrolabica No 6. Aldershot & Paris: Variorum & the Societe Internationale de l'Astrolabe, 1994. Presented by the editors.
[1994-100]
1994
U (Open Shelf)Hagen, M. J.
Zon & Tijd: Bijdragen tot de Geschiedenis en de Theorie van Zonnewijzers
Uitgave van De Zonnewijzerkring 1998. [s.l.]: De Zonnewijzerkring, 1998. Presented by the publisher Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1998-166]
1998
U (Open Shelf)Hall, A. R.
Ballistics in the Seventeenth Century: A Study in the relations of Science and War with reference principally to England
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1952.
[Unknown]
1952
U (Open Shelf)Hambly, Maya
Drawing Instruments Their History, Purpose and Use for Architectural Drawings
Exhibition 11 November - 18 December 1982. British Architectural Library. London: RIBA Drawings Collection, 1982. Presented by the publisher Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1983-18]
1982
U (Open Shelf)Hambly, Maya
Drawing Instruments 1580-1980
London: Sotheby's Publications, 1988. Presented by the publisher. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1988-162]
1988
U (Open Shelf)Hankins, Thomas L.; Silverman, Robert J.
Instruments and the Imagination
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1995.
[1997-26]
1995
U (Open Shelf)Harding, Rosamond E. M.
The Metronome and it's [sic] Precursors
New edition [reprint] (first, 1938); Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire: Gresham Books, 1983.
[1987-204]
1983
U (Open Shelf)Hartree, D. R.
Calculating Machines: Recent and Prospective Developments and their impact on Mathematical Physics: Inaugural Lecture
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1947.
[1972-136]
1947
U (Open Shelf)Havinga, E.; Wijk, W. E. van; D'Aumerie (eds.)
Planetarium-Boek Eise Eisinga
dit boek uitgegeven op den Hondersten Gedenkdag van zijn dood 27 Augustus 1928. ... met een Levensbericht en een Bijvoegsel waarin vele Onuitgegeven stukken Van Eisinga et het Planetarium een lijst van in Nederland Vervaardigde of Aanwezige Planetaria en een Vertaling van Christiaan Huygens' Automaton Planetarii. N. V. van Loghum Slaterus' Uitgevers-Maatschappij Arnhem - in 't jaar 1928. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1961-50]
1928
U (Open Shelf)Heal, Ambrose
London Tradesmen's Cards of the XVIII Century: An Account of their Origin and Use
New York: Dover Publications, 1968.
[1984-351]
1968
U (Open Shelf)Helden, Albert van
Catalogue of Early Telescopes
Firenze: Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, 1999. Presented by the publishers.
[2004-71]
1999
U (Open Shelf)Helden, Anne C. van; Gent, Rob H. van
The Huygens Collection
Leiden: Museum Boerhaave, 1995. Presented by Professor G. L'E. Turner. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1995-62]
1995
U (Open Shelf)Herbert, A. P.
Sundials Old and New, or Fun with the Sun
London: Methuen, 1967
[1967-202]
1967
U (Open Shelf)Herlea, Alexandre
"Les Indicateurs de Pression: Leur Evolution en France au 19e Siecle"
in Christine Blondel et al. (eds.), Studies in the History of Scientific Instruments (London, 1989), pp. 193-234.
[1990-12]
1989
U (Open Shelf)Heyes, Philip
The Protector Lamp and Lighting Company Limited 1873-1973: The First Hundred Years
Monton, Eccles, Manchester: The Protector Lamp and Lighting Company, 1973. Presented by the Librarian. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1986-78]
1973
U (Open Shelf)Higton, Hester
Sundials: An Illustrated History of Portable Dials
London: Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd., 2001. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2003-25]
2001
U (Open Shelf)Hilkhuijsen, J. W. L.; Meindersma, K. T.; Daalen, A. P. A. van
Open Slot: Sluitwerk en Slotenmakers in Nederland uit de 15e tot de 19e Eeuw
Groningen: Wolters Noordhoff/Forsten, 1986. Handbook of exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum Het Prinsenhof, Delft. Presented by Professor G. L'E. Turner Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1989-156]
1986
U (Open Shelf)Hill, H. O.; Paget-Tomlinson, E. W.
Instruments of Navigation: A Catalogue of Instruments at the National Maritime Museum with notes upon their use
London: H. M. Stationery Office, 1958.
[1958- ]
1958
U (Open Shelf)Hinz, Walther
Islamische Masse und Gewichte
Handbuch der Orientalistik, herausgegeben von Bertold Spuler, Erganzungsband 1 Heft 1. Leiden: Brill, 1955.
[1967-56]
1955
U (Open Shelf)Hitchins, H. L.; W. E. May
From Lodestone to Gyrocompass
London: Hutchinson's, 1952.
[1972-207]
1952
U (Open Shelf)Hofmann, Heinrich, of Jena
de Octantis instrumenti mathematici novi geodoetis astronomis, geographis, nautis, architectis, militibus et fodinarum praefectis perquam utilis et accomodati usu et utilitule libellus ab authore Henrico Hofmanno.
Jenae: [? Typis Haeredum Lippoldianorum.], 1612. Photocopy.
[1974-63]
1612
U (Open Shelf)Hollingdale, S. H.; Tootill, G. C.
Electronic Computers
Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1965.
[1982-72]
1965
U (Open Shelf)Hood, Thomas
The Use of the Celestial Globe in plano, set forth in two hemispheres: wherein are placed all the most notable Starres of heauen, according to their longitude, latitude, magnitude, and constellation: Whereunto are annexed their names, both Latin, Greeke, and Arabian or Chaldee; Also their nature and the poeticall reason of each seuerall Constellation. Imprinted at London for Thobie Cooke. 1590.
English experience, its record in early printed books published in facsimile, no. 533. Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum; New York: Da Capo Press, 1973. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1974-143]
1973
U (Open Shelf)Hood, Thomas
The Use of Both the Globes, Celestial And Terrestia, most plainely deliuered in forme of a Dialogue. Concerning most pleasant, and profitable conclusions for the Mariner, and generally for all those, that are addicted to these kinde of Mathematicall instrumentes. / Imprinted at London at the three Cranes in the Vintree, by Thomas Dawson. 1592
English experience, its record in early printed books published in facsimile, no. 389. Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum; New York: Da Capo Press, 1971. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1974-144]
1971
U (Open Shelf)Hood, Thomas
The use of the two Mathematical Instruments, the crosse Staffe (differing from that in use with the mariners:) And the Iacobs Staff / Imprinted at London by Richard Field for Robert Dexter. 1595.
English experience, its record in early printed books published in facsimile, no. 468. Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum; New York: Da Capo Press, 1972. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1974-155]
1972
U (Open Shelf)Hopp, Peter M.
Slide Rules: Their History, Models, and Makers
New Jersey: Astragal Press, 1999.
[2003-22]
1999
U (Open Shelf)Horne, Ethelbert
Scratch Dials
London: Simpkin Marshall, Ltd., 1929.
[1964-206]
1929
U (Open Shelf)Horsky, Z.; Skopova, O.
Astronomy and Gnomonics: a catalogue of instruments of the 15th to the 19th centuries in the collections of the National Technical Museum, Prague
Prague: [s.n.], 1968. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1969-83]
1968
U (Open Shelf)Howse, Derek
Greenwich Time and the Discovery of the Longitude
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980.
[1981-83]
1980
U (Open Shelf)Hughes, A. J.
The Book of the Sextant with Ancient and Modern Instruments of Navigation
Glasgow: James Brown & Son, The Nautical Press, 1915. From the library of the Navy League.
[1983-126]
1915
U (Open Shelf)Hughes, Barbara
Catalog of the Scientific Apparatus at the College of Charleston: 1800-1940
Edited with additional material by Ralph Melnick. Charleston (USA): College of Charleston Library Associates, 1980. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1980-253]
1980
U (Open Shelf)Hughes, Thomas Parke
Science and the Instrument-maker Michelson, Sperry, and the Speed of Light
Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, no. 37. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1976. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1977-80]
1976
U (Open Shelf)Hume, Kenneth J.
A History of Engineering Metrology
London: Mechanical Engineering Publications, 1980.
[1981-119]
1980
U (Open Shelf)IBM Gallery of Science and Art
A calculator chronicle : 300 years of counting and reckoning tools : the mechanization of arithmetic
Armonk, N.Y. : International Business Machines Corporation, [1983?]. Presented by G.L'E. Turner. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2007-77]
1983?
U (Open shelf)Ifland, Peter, 1926-
Taking the stars : celestial navigation from argonauts to astronauts
Newport News, Va. : Mariners' Museum ; Malabar, Fla. : Krieger Pub. Co., 1998.
[2008-3]
1998
U (Open Shelf)Impey, O. R.
Japanese Netsuke in Oxford from the Ashmolean Museum Pitt Rivers Museum and the Museum of the History of Science
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1987. Presented by the publisher.
[1988-55]
1987
U (Open Shelf)Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza di Firenze
Scienza e Tecnica Saggio delle collezioni scientifiche dell' Istituto Tecnico Gaetano Salvemini
Firenze, Palazzo Strozzi 24 settembre-30 ottobre 1977. Presentazione di Paolo Galluzzi; Catalogo a cura dell'Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza di Firenze. (Title inside differs). Firenze: 1977. Presented by G.L'E. Turner Esq. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1983-57]
1977
U (Open Shelf)Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence
The Restoration of Scientific Instruments
Proceedings of the workshop held in Florence, December 14-15, 1998. Firenze: Le Lettere, 2000. Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence / Opificio delle Pietre Dure, Florence. (Contributions by Robert G. W. Anderson, Louis Andre, Paolo Venturoli, Marian Fournier, Giorgio Bonsanti, Suzanne Keene, Peter Friess, Jean-Louis Boutaine, Paolo Brenni, Mara Miniati, Jim A. Bennett). Presented by the publisher
[2000-10]
2000
U (Open Shelf)Jai Singh Sawai
Yantraprakara of Sawai Jai Singh
Edited and translated by Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma. Supplement to Studies in History of Medicine and Science (vols. X & XI - 1986, 1987). New Delhi: Department of History of Medicine and Science, Jamia Hamdard [Hamdard University], [1987]. Presented by Professor S. R. Sarma. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1997-88]
1987?
U (Open Shelf)Jeon, Sang-woon
Science and Technology In Korea: Traditional Instruments and Techniques
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1974.
[1976-9]
1974
U (Open Shelf)Jewell, Brian
Veteran Talking Machines: History and Collectors' Guide
Midas Collectors' Library. Tunbridge Wells: Midas Books, 1977.
[1982-54]
1977
U (Open Shelf)Jezierski, Dieter von
Rechenschieber - eine Dokumentation: Geschichte Hersteller Modelle
Stein (Germany): herausgegeben vom Verfasser 1997 im Eigenverlag [published by the author], 1997 Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1997-101]
1997
U (Open Shelf)Jilek, Frantisek; Majer, Jiri
National Technical Museum Praha | Narodni Technicke Muzeum
Preface by Josef Kuba. Prague: National Technical Museum, 1980.
[1981-207]
1980
U (Open Shelf)Jones, Mark
The Art of the Medal
London: British Museum Publications, 1979.
[1981-154]
1979
U (Open Shelf)Kean, Victor J.
The Ancient Greek Computer from Rhodes known as the Antikythera Mechanism
Anixi Attikis, Greece: Efstathiadis Group, 1991 Missing, December 2018.
[1994-42]
1991
U (Open Shelf)Kehrbaum, Annegret; Korte, Bernhard
Calculi: Bilder des Rechnens einst und heute: Images of Computing in Olden and Modern Times
Bonn: Nordrhein-Westfalische Akademie der Wissenschaften/Westdeutscher Verlag, 1995. Presented by Dr Annegret Kehrbaum Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1996-6]
1995
U (Open Shelf)Kiely, Edmond R.
Surveying Instruments: Their History and Classroom Use
Nineteenth Yearbook of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. New York: Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1947. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1950- ]
1947
U (Open Shelf)King, David A.
Islamic Astronomical Instruments
Collected Studies Series; Variorum Reprint CS253. London: Variorum Reprints, 1987. Presented by the author.
[1988-157/2]
1987
U (Open Shelf)King, Henry C.; Millburn, John R.
Geared to the Stars: The Evolution of Planetariums, Orreries, and Astronomical Clocks
Bristol: Adam Hilger, 1978.
[1979-268]
1978
U (Open Shelf)Kingdon, John Abernethy
The Strife of the Scales: An Attempt to Explain How the King's Weigh-House and Beams within the City of London came into the Charge of the Worshipful Company of Grocers
By a Past-Master of the Company [signing himself J. A. K.], Session 1883-4. London: Rixon & Arnold, 1905.
[1970-39]
1883-1884
U (Open Shelf)Kisch, Bruno
Scales and Weights: A Historical Outline
Yale Studies in the History of Science and Medicine, 1. London: Yale University Press, 1965.
[1966-187]
1965
U (Open Shelf)Klein, H. Arthur
The World of Measurements: Masterpieces, Mysteries and Muddles of Metrology
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1975.
[1978-567]
1975
U (Open Shelf)Kojima, Takashi
Advanced Abacus: Japanese Theory and Practice
Seventh printing (first edition, 1963). Rutland, Vermont, & Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1980.
[1983-99]
1980
U (Open Shelf)Koning, D. A. Wittop; Houben, G. M. M.
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U (Open shelf)Korey, Michael
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U (Open Shelf)Lattin, Harriet Pratt
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U (Open Shelf)Lenzen, V. F.; Multhauf, R. P.
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U (Open Shelf)Leopold, J. H.
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U (Open Shelf)Ligonniere, Robert
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U (Open Shelf)Lionnais, Francois le
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U (Open Shelf)Lloyd, Steven A.
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U (Open Shelf)Luzio, Leopoldina
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U (Open Shelf)Maddison, F. R.
A Supplement to a Catalogue of Scientific Instruments in the Collection of J. A. Billmeir, Esq., C.B.E.: Exhibited by the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
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U (Open Shelf)Maddison, Francis
"Astrolabe"
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U (Open Shelf)Maddison, Francis
"Early Astronomical and Mathematical Instruments: A Brief Survey of Sources and Modern Studies"
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U (Open Shelf)Malin, Stuart; Stott, Carole
The Greenwich Meridian
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U (Open Shelf)Marguin, Jean
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U (Open Shelf)Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon
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U (Open Shelf)May, W. E.
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U (Open Shelf)Mayall, R. Newton; Mayall, Margaret L.
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U (Open Shelf)Mazzolini, Renato G. (ed.)
Le Collezioni Scientifiche del Ginnasio Liceo "Giovanni Prati" di Trento
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U (Open Shelf)McConnell, Anita
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U (Open Shelf)McConnell, Anita
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U (Open Shelf)McConnell, Anita
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U (Open Shelf)McConnell, Anita
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U (Open Shelf)McConnell, Anita
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U (Open Shelf)Meckseper, Cord (ed.)
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U (Open Shelf)Mell, George
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U (Open Shelf)Merzbach, Uta C.
Georg Scheutz and the First Printing Calculator
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U (Open Shelf)Meskens, Ad
Familia Universalis Coignet: Een familie tussen wetenschap en kunst
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U (Open Shelf)Meskens, Ad
Familia Universalis: Coignet
Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antweren | Vlaamse Wetenschapsweek. Antwerp: Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 1998. Published to accompany an exhibition ... 2 October 1998-13 December 1998. (English translation of the text of the book of the same title). Presented by the publisher
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U (Open Shelf)Metcalfe, T. J.
Weighing Machines: A Treatise in Three Volumes
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U (Open Shelf)Meynent, Marie-Julie
"Foucault, Marseille et le Telescope de 80 cm a Miroir en Verre Argente"
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U (Open Shelf)Michel, H.
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U (Open Shelf)Michel, Henri
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U (Open Shelf)Michel, Henri.
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U (Open Shelf)Middleton, W. E. K.
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U (Open Shelf)Millburn, John R.
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U (Open Shelf)Millburn, John R.
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U (Open Shelf)Miniati, Mara
"Les Cistae Mathematicae et 1'Organisation des Connaissances au XVIIe Siecle"
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U (Open Shelf)Minow, Helmut (ed.)
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Herausgegeben von Helmut Minow in Verbindung mit dem Arbeitskreis "Geschichte des Vermessungswesens" des Verbandes Deutscher Vermessungsingenieure e.V. (VDV), der Fachgeschichtlichen Kommission von Geodeziai es Kartografiai Egyesulet (Ungarischer Geodatischer und Kartographischer Verein) sowie der Commission "Histoire de la Profession", Union des Geometres-Experts de Bruxelles. Wiesbaden: Verlag Chmielorz GmbH, 1982. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
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U (Open Shelf)Mockridge, Patricia; Mockridge, Philip
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U (Open Shelf)Mollan, Charles
Irish National Inventory of Historic Scientific Instruments: Interim Report 1989
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U (Open Shelf)More, Richard
The Carpenters Rule, Or, A Booke shewing many plaine waies, truly to measure ordinarie Timber, and other extraordinarie sollids, or Timber: With a Detection of Sundrie great errors, generally committed by Carpenters and others in measuring the Timber; tending much to the buyers great losse. Published especially for the good of the Companie of Carpenters in London, and others also; and is very necessarie for Masons, Shipwrights, Joyners, and others, using to measure Timber and Boord, and other superficies and sollids. At London: Imprynted by Felix Kyngston, 1602.
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U (Open Shelf)Morrison-Low, A. D.
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U (Open Shelf)Moss, Michael; Russell, Iain
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U (Open Shelf)Moureau, Carl
Lire Correctement le Cadran Solaire place sure la facade de la Maison du Cadran Solaire Cite de Carcassonne avec une planche en couleurs et un graphique de l'equation du temps
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U (Open Shelf)Mourlevat, Guy
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U (Open Shelf)Moxon, Joseph
Mechanick Exercises or the Doctrine of Handy-Works Applied to the Arts of Smithing, Joinery, Carpentry, Turning, Bricklaying. To which is added Mechanick Dyalling: Shewing how to draw a true Sun-Dyal on any given Plane, however Scituated; only with help of a straight Ruler and a pair of Compasses, and without any Arithmetical Calculation.
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U (Open Shelf)Multhauf, Robert P.
A Catalogue of Instruments and Models in the Possession of the American Philosophical Society
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U (Open Shelf)Multhauf, Robert P.; Good, Gregory
A Brief History of Geomagnetism and A Catalog of the Collections of the National Museum of American History
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U (Open Shelf)Muris, Oswald; Saarmann, Gert
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U (Open Shelf)Musee des Arts et Metiers
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U (Open Shelf)Museum 't Coopmanshus
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U (Open Shelf)Museum Boerhaave
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U (Open Shelf)Museum Boerhaave
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U (Open Shelf)Museum Fur Kunst und Kulturgeschichte der Stadt Dortmund
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U (Open Shelf)Morzer Bruyns, W. F. J.
The Cross-Staff: History and Development of a Navigational Instrument
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U (Open Shelf)Morzer Bruyns, W. F. J.
Schip Recht door Zee: De octant in de Republiek in de achttiende eeuw
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U (Open Shelf)Nachet Collection
Collection Nachet. Instruments Scientifiques et Livres Anciens
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U (Open Shelf)National Maritime Museum
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U (Open Shelf)National Maritime Museum, Haifa
Sefunim (Bulletin)
Vol. VI, Arie L. Ben-Eli Memorial Volume, 1981. Haifa: The National Maritime Museum Foundation, 1981. (Includes articles on sundials by Louis Janin, Rene R. J. Rohr, Dov Ben-Layish.) Presented by the publisher on exchange.
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U (Open Shelf)Nawa, Christine ; Meinel, Christoph
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U (Open Shelf)Nedoluha, Alois
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U (Open Shelf)Nerini, L.; Salandin, G. A.
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U (Open Shelf)Nerini, L.; Salandin, G. A.
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U (Open Shelf)Newcomen Society
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U (Open Shelf)North, J. D. (ed.)
Richard of Wallingford: An edition of his writings with introductions, English translation and commentary
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U (Open Shelf)Oestmann, Gunther
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U (Open Shelf)Palau, Miquel
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U (Open Shelf)Pantalony, David; Kremer, Richard L.; Manasek, Francis J.
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U (Open Shelf)Parot, Francoise
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U (Open Shelf)Pastoureau, Mireille
"Les Hardy - Pere et Fils - et Louis-Charles Desnos: "Faiseurs de Globes" a Paris au Milieu du XVIIIe Siecle"
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U (Open Shelf)Patey, Carole
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U (Open Shelf)Pattenden, Philip
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Deddington, Oxon.: Roman Books, 1979. (Re. Corpus Christi College.)
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U (Open Shelf)Pearsall, Ronald
Collecting and Restoring Scientific Instruments
Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1974
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U (Open Shelf)Pearsall, Ronald
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U (Open Shelf)Pedersen, Fridericus Saaby (ed.)
Petri Philomenae de Dacia et Petri de S. Audomaro: Opera Quadrivialia: Pars I Opera Petri Philomenae
Corpus Philosophorum Danicorum Medii Aevi, X.I. Hauniae: Societas Linguae & Litterarum Danicarum (Danish Society of Language and Literature), 1983.
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U (Open Shelf)Pedersen, Fridericus Saaby (ed.)
Petri Philomenae de Dacia et Petri de S. Audomaro: Opera Quadrivialia: Pars II Opera Petri de Sancto Audomaro
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U (Open Shelf)Peitz, Adolf
Sonnenuhren: Eine Anleitung fur Handwerk und Liebhaber: 2. Tabellen und Diagramme zur Berechnung
Munchen: Callwey, 1978. Shelved with Schumacher. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
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U (Open Shelf)Peruzzi, Giulio; Talas, Sofia (eds.)
Bagliori nel vuoto: dall'uovo elettrico ai raggi X: un percorso tra elettricita e pneumatica dal Seicento a oggi
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U (Open Shelf)Petersen, Julius
Methods and Theories for the solution of Problems of Geometrical Constructions applied to 410 problems
Translated by Sophus Haagensen; authorized English edition. (Reprint; Preface to original dated 1879). New York: Chelsea Publishing Company, 1969. Bound with W. W. R. Ball, String Figures. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
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U (Open Shelf)Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt
Opera: Epistula de Magnete / Nova Compositio Astrolabii Particularis
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U (Open Shelf)Plaszmeyer, Peter; Siebel, Sabine (eds.)
Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (1651-1708): Experimente mit dem Sonnenfeuer
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U (Open Shelf)Pollard, A. F. C.
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U (Open Shelf)Portaluppi, Piero
Gnomonica Atellana: Le Meridiane dell'Arte: L'Arte delle Meridiane
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U (Open Shelf)Poulle, Emmanuel
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U (Open Shelf)Poulle, Emmanuel
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U (Open Shelf)Price, Derek J. (ed.)
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U (Open Shelf)Primi, Caterina
"The Double Tachystoscope"
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U (Open Shelf)Proudfoot, W. B.
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U (Open Shelf)Pullan, J. M.
The History of the Abacus
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U (Open Shelf)Qiao, Lin; Shizhu, Cui
China's Ancient Large Astronomical Instruments Exhibition
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U (Open Shelf)Ragozzino, Ezio; Schettino, Edvige
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U (Open Shelf)Ragozzino, Ezio; Schettino, Edvige
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U (Open Shelf)Randell, Brian (ed.)
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U (Open Shelf)Randier, Jean
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U (Open Shelf)Ransom, Peter
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U (Open Shelf)Read, Oliver; Welch, Walter L.
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U (Open Shelf)Reid, William, 1926-
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U (Open Shelf)Reis, Antonio Estacio dos
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U (Open Shelf)Richeson, A. W.
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U (Open Shelf)Rickard, Charles
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U (Open Shelf)Rigassio, Gian Carlo
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U (Open Shelf)Roberts, Harry W.
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U (Open Shelf)Robertson, J. Drummond
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U (Open Shelf)Robins, F. W.
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U (Open Shelf)Rohde, Alfred
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U (Open Shelf)Rosmorduc, Jean
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U (Open Shelf)Russell, Iain
"Purely by Coincidence: The Rangefinders of Barr & Stroud at the Battle of Jutland, 1916"
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U (Open Shelf)Savage-Smith, Emilie
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U (Open Shelf)Schillinger, Klaus
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U (Open Shelf)Schneider, Ivo
"Der Propertionalzirkel, ein universelles Analogrechen-instrument der Vergangenheit"
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U (Open Shelf)Schonaerts, Roger (ed.)
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U (Open Shelf)Schreiber, Hermann
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U (Open Shelf)Schroder, Michael
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U (Open Shelf)Schumacher, Heinz
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U (Open Shelf)Science Museum
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U (Open Shelf)Science Museum
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U (Open Shelf)Scientific Instrument Commission
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U (Open Shelf)Scientific Instrument Symposium (25th : 2006 : Krakow, Poland)
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U (Open Shelf)Scott, Dunbar D.; & others
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U (Open Shelf)Scott-Scott, Michael
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U (Open Shelf)Seaby, H. A.; Bussel, Monica (eds.)
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U (Open Shelf)Seling, Helmut (ed.)
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U (Open Shelf)Sezgin, Fuat
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Veroffentlichungen des Institutes fur Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften. Reihe B, Nachdruke. Abteilung Instrumentenkunde Bd. 1. Frankfurt am Main: Institut fur Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitat, 1990.
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U (Open Shelf)Sheppard, T.; Musham, J. F.
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U (Open Shelf)Societe Generale de Banque
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U (Open Shelf)Somerville, Andrew R.
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U (Open Shelf)Sotheby's
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U (Open Shelf)Sotheby's
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U (Open Shelf)Soutif, Daniel
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U (Open Shelf)Statens historiska museum (Stockholm, Sweden)
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U (Open Shelf)Statens historiska museum (Stockholm, Sweden) ; Sydow, Carl-Otto von
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U (Open Shelf)Stephenson, Bruce; Bolt, Marvin; Friedman, Anna Felicity
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U (Open Shelf)Stevenson, Edward Luther
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U (Open Shelf)Strano, Giorgio ; Johnston, Stephen, 1961- ; [et al.]
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U (Open Shelf)Strathclyde University
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U (Open Shelf)Sutton Place Heritage Trust
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U (Open Shelf)Swade, Doron
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U (Open Shelf)Swade, Doron
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U (Open Shelf)Tanner, Robert
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U (Open Shelf)Tarde, Jean
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U (Open Shelf)Tarozzi, Gino (ed.)
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U (Open Shelf)Tartu Ulikool. Ajaloomuuseum.
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U (Open Shelf)Taub, Liba; Willmouth, Frances (eds.)
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U (Open Shelf)Taylor, E. G. R.
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U (Open Shelf)Union Internationale d'Histoire et Philosophie des Sciences
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U (Open Shelf)Ward, F. A. B.
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"Crisis or Complacency? The Precision Instrument Industry in Britain and France, 1900-1920"
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U (Open Shelf)Williams, Michael R.
A History of Computing Technology
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U (Open Shelf)Williamson, Paul
An Introduction to Medieval Ivory Carvings
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U (Open Shelf)Williamson, Ray A. (ed.)
Archaeoastronomy in the Americas
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U (Open Shelf)Wilson, Anthony, et al.
The Science Museum
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The Description and vse of the Sphaere Deuided into three principal Partes: Whereof The first intreateth especially of the circles of vppermost moueable Spaere, and of the manifold vses of euery one of them severally: The second sheweth the plentifull Vse of the vppermost Sphaere, and of the circles thereof ioyntly: the third conteyneth the Description of the Orbes whereof the Spaeres of the sunne and moone haue beene supposed to be made, with their motions and vses. The contents of each Part are more particularly set downe in the Table. London: printed for Iohn Tap: dwelling at S. Magnus corner. 1613.
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U (Open Shelf)Wunderlich, Herbert
Kursachsische Feldmesskunst, artilleristische Richtverfahren und Ballistik im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert: Beitrage zur Geschichte der praktischen Mathematik, der Physik und des Artilleriewesens in der Renaissance unter Zugrundelegung von Instrumenten, Karten, Hand- und Druckschriften des Staatlichen Mathematisch-Physikalischen Salons Dresden
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U (Open Shelf)Yeldham, Florence A.
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U (Open Shelf)Zelbstein, U.
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U (Open Shelf)Zinner, E.
"Wissenschaftliche Instrumente"
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Deutsche und Niederlandische Astronomsche Instrumente des 11.-18. Jahrhunderts
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U (Open Shelf)Zubler, Leonhart
Fabrica et Usus Instrumenti Chorographici: QuoMira Facilitate describuntur Regiones & singulae partes earum, veluti Montes, Vrbes, Castela, Pagi, Propugnacula, & similia. Additae sunt, Praeter duo Instrumenta homogenea, XV. Formae aenae, fabricam & usum Instrumentorum quasi in synopsi proponentes. Omnia Germanice descripta a Leonharto Zublero, & Latio donata ac recognita, ad communem Chorographiae studiosorum usum, a Casparo Wasero, Tig. Imperisis Ludovici Regis, Bibliopolae Basiliensis. Anno MDCVII
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U (Open Shelf)Zupko, Ronald Edward
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U (Open Shelf)Zupko, Ronald Edward
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U (Open Shelf)Zupko, Ronald Edward
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U (Open Shelf)Skiljan, Maja
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Globes at Greenwich: A Catalogue of the Globes and Armillary Spheres in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
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U (Open Shelf) altGouk, Penelope
The Ivory Sundials of Nuremberg 1500-1700
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Spheres: The Art of the Celestial Mechanic
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U (Open Shelf) altPorter, Roy; Schaffer, Simon; Bennett, Jim; Brown, Olivia
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U (Open Shelf) altTurner, Gerard L'E
Van Marum's Scientific Instruments in Teyler's Museum: Descriptive Catalogue
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U (Open Shelf) altTurner, Gerard L'E.
Scientific Instruments 1500-1900: An Introduction
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U (Open Shelf) altWilliams, Mari E. W.
The Precision Makers: A History of the Instruments Industry in Britain and France, 1870-1939
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U (Open Shelf/Stack - oversize)Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique
Liste des Globes Terrestres et Celestes Anciens - anterieurs a 1850 - conserve dans les collections publiques de France
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U (Open Shelf/Stack -oversize)Miniati, Mara (ed.)
Museo di Storia della Scienza: Catalogo
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U (Open Shelf/Stack)Banfield, Edwin
Antique Barometers: An Illustrated Survey
Bristol: Wayland Publications, [1977]
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U (Open Shelf/Stack)Bonelli, Maria Luisa
Catalogo dei Globi Antichi conservati in Italia
Fascicolo 2: "I globi di Vincenzo Coronelli". Biblioteca of the Instituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, vol. III. Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1960. 2 copies. Stapleton Bequest (1) Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
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U (Open Shelf/Stack)Christie's, South Kensington
Time Measuring Instruments from The Time Museum
April 14, 1988. London: Christie's, 1988. Auction sale catalogue. 2 copies. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
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1988
U (Open Shelf/Stack)Crommelin, C. A.
Beschrijvende Catalogues der Historische Verzameling van Natuurkundige Instrumenten in het Natuurkundig Laboratorium der Rijks-Universiteit te Leiden
Leiden: Eduard Ijdo, 1926. 2 copies. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
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U (Open Shelf/Stack)Exposition Universelle de 1900
Catalogue de l'Exposition Collective Allemande d'Instruments d'Optique et de Mecanique de Precision
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U (Open Shelf/Stack)Horsburgh, E. M.
Handbook of the Exhibition of Napier Relics and of Books, Instruments, and Devices for Facilitating Calculation
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U (Open Shelf/Stack)Miniati, Mara (ed.)
Orologi e Strumenti della Collezione Beltrame
[By] Paolo Brenni, Mara Miniati, Luigi Pippa, & Anthony Turner. Istituto e Museo Di Storia della Scienza; Cataloghi di Raccolte Scientifiche 2. Prato: Giunti [or Firenze: Istituto e Museo do Storia della Scienza], 1996. Presented by A. J. Turner Esq. 2 copies. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
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U (Open Shelf/Stack)Schmidt, Fritz
Geschichte der Geodatischen Instrumente und Verfahren im Altertum und Mittelalter
Veroffentlichungen der Pfalzischen Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Wissenschaften, band XXIV. Neustadt an der Haardt: Pfalzische Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Wissenschaften, 1935. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
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U (Pickworth)Faber, A. W.
Untitled
Illustrated price list of A. W. Faber calculating rules (pp. 55-58), and catalogue of A. W. Faber pencils and rubbers (following on from that, but unpaginated); in Charles N. Pickworth, Instructions for the Use of A. W. Faber's Improved Calculating Rules (London: A. W. Faber, n.d.).
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U (Price)Blake, John B.
"Mr. Ferguson's Hypodermic Syringe"
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"Weights and Measures in Pre-Columbian America"
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"Ballistics and the Graphic Method"
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U (Price)Machabey, A.
"Progres de la Precision des Mesures"
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U (Price)Miles, George C.
"Egyptian Glass Pharmaceutical Measures"
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U (Price)Peterson, Roger Tory
"The Galapagos: Eerie Cradle of New Species"
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U (Rosse)Oxmantown, Lord
"An Account of the Observations on the Great Nebula in Orion, made at Birr Castle, with the 3-feet and 6-feet Telescopes, between 1848 and 1867. With a drawing of the Nebula"
offprint from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1868, pp. 57-73 and plates I-III (latter contained in envelope at back of volume). Communicated by the Earl of Rosse, K. P., F.R.S. Received June 17, - Read June 20, 1867. Bound with the works of the Earl of Rosse.
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U (Simms)Troughton & Simms
Catalogue of Instruments, made by Troughton and Simms, Opticians, and Mathematical Instrument Makers to the Honourable Board of Ordnance, 138, Fleet Street, London
15-page catalogue, bound with Frederick W. Simms, A Treatise on the Principal Mathematical Instruments employed in Surveying, Levelling, and Astronomy ... (sixth edition; London: Messrs. Troughton and Simms, 1844).
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1844
U (Simms)Troughton & Simms
Catalogue of Instruments made by Troughton and Simms ...
London, n.d. Bound with two other works under the title Simms's Instruments and Levelling: (1) Frederick W. Simms, A treatise on the principal mathematical instruments employed in Surveying, Levelling, and Astronomy ... (London, 1844); (2) this work; (3) Frederick W. Simms, A treatise on the principles and practice of Levelling ... (London, 1843).
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U (Stack - oversize)Airy, G. B.
Description of the Transit Circle of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich
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U (Stack - oversize)Anonymous
Das Reichspatentamt, 1877-1927: Ruckblick auf sein Werden und Wirken
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U (Stack - oversize)Apian, Peter
Instrumentbuch
Ingolstadt, 1533; (covers and title page wanting); Disbound & in 3 sections
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U (Stack - oversize)Apian, Peter
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U (Stack - oversize)Arbuthnot, Charles
Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures, explain'd and exemplified in several Dissertations
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U (Stack - oversize)Assemini, Simone
Globus Caelestis Cufico-Arabicus Veliterni Musei Borgiani a Simone Assemano Linguarum Orientalium in Seminario Patavino Professore et Academiarum Patavinae et Volscorum Socio Illustratus. Praemissa ejusdem de Arabum Astronomia dissertatione et adjectis duabus epistolis Cl. Josephi Toaldi in Gymnasio Patavino publici Astronomiae Professoris
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U (Stack - oversize)Beiblatt der Fliegenden Blatter
Die schonsten Anzeigen in den Fliegenden Blattern Werbung zu Kaisers Zeiten
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U (Stack - oversize)Ben-Eli, Arie L.; Stieglitz, R. Raphael
The National Maritime Museum, Haifa
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U (Stack - oversize)Bennett, J. A. (James A.)
Science at the Great Exhibition
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U (Stack - oversize)Bennett, J. A. (James A.) ; Brown, Olivia, 1952-
The compleat surveyor
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U (Stack - oversize)Bion, N.
The Construction and Principal Uses of Mathematical Instruments
Translated from the French of M. Bion. Chief Instrument-Maker to the French King. To which are added, the Construction and Uses of such Instruments as are omitted by M. Bion, particularly of those invented or improved by the English. By Edmund Stone. The whole illustrated with Thirty Folio Copper-Plates, containing the Figures, etc. of the several Instruments. The Second Edition (1758) to which is added, a Supplement: containing a further Account of some of the most useful Mathematical Instruments as now improved. London: Printed for J. Richardson, in Pater-noster-Row. From the Radcliffe Observatory.
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U (Stack - oversize)Bion, N. (Nicolas), 1652-1733 ; Stone, Edmund, d. 1768
The construction and principal uses of mathematical instruments ...
2nd ed. to which is added, A supplement ... London : Holland Press, 1972. Reprint of the 1758 ed. published by J. Richardson, London. Limited ed. of 500 copies. Translation of Traite de la construction et usages des instruments de mathematique. Millburn bequest. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
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U (Stack - oversize)Bion, N. (Nicolas), 1652-1733 ; Stone, Edmund, d. 1768, (translator)
The construction and principal uses of mathematical instruments
English translation of Traite de la construction et des principaux usages des instrumens de mathematique. London : Printed by H.W. [Henry Woodfall] for John Senex, at the Globe, over-against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet; and William Taylor, at the Ship and Black-Swan in Pater-noster Row, 1723. Millburn bequest.
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U (Stack - oversize)Bonelli, M.
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Vademecum van de Nederlandse Metrieke Gewichten
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"La Montre du Sultan Nour ad Din (554 de l'Hegire = 1159-1160)"
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U (Stack - oversize)Centre National d'Histoire des Sciences
Inventaire des Instruments Scientifiques Historiques conserves en Belgique
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U (Stack - oversize)Comite National Francais D'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences
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U (Stack - oversize)Coronelli - World League of Friends of the Globe
IIIrd International Symposium of the Coronelli-World League of Friends of the Globe
IIIrd International Conference on the History of Cartography ... Summaries and List of Participants. Together with "Exposition de Globes", a catalogue by Antoine De Smet. Brussels 17-20 September 1969. [1973-45/ii] located in file U.
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U (Stack - oversize)Daniel, Christopher St. J. H.
"Shedding a Glorious Light: Stained-Glass-Window Sundials"
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U (Stack - oversize)Daniel, Christopher St. J. H.
Sundials on Walls
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U (Stack - oversize)Davidson, David
The Hidden Truth in Myth and Ritual and in the Common Culture Pattern of Ancient Metrology
A Study showing that the "Common Culture Patterns" in Myth and Ritual emanated from Messianic Prophecies current over 5000 years ago; and that the Structural Expression of these Prophecies is enshrined in the Divine Revelation of the Great Pyramid of Gizeh. Leeds: the author, September 1934.
[1968-435]
1934
U (Stack - oversize)Dekker, Elly.
Globes at Greenwich: A Catalogue of the Globes and Armillary Spheres in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.
Oxford University Press: New York, U.S.A. 1999.
[2002-78]
1999
U (Stack - oversize)Delalande, Dominique; Delalande, Eric
Cadrans Solaires / Sundials Exposition / Exhibition 17 - XII 2013 / 19 - I -2014
Paris : Galerie Delalande Louvre des Antiquaires, 2014. Purchased for Euro 120 on March 2014.
[2014-158]
2014
U (Stack - oversize)Demoriane, Helene
"Les instruments scientifiques du temps passe: Connaissance des Arts publie leur dictionnaire a l'usage des amateurs"
[4 parts]; in Connaissance des arts, no. {...}, June 1963, pp. 90-99 (A-C); no. {...}, November 1964, pp. 124-131 (D-M); no. {...}, March 1965, pp. 102-111 (N-Q); no. 167, January 1966, pp. 82-89 (R-Z). Also second copy (extract{?}) of part 2.
[1963-111] & [1964-328] & [1965-81] & [1966-34]
1963-1966
U (Stack - oversize)Dennert & Pape
100 Jahre Dennert & Pape. Aristo-Werke
1. Juli 1862 - 1. Juli 1962; Dennert & Pape. Aristo-Werke Hamburg-Altona; alteste deutsche spezialfabrik fur rechenstabe. Hamburg: Dennert & Pape. Aristo-Werke, 1962. Together with summary in English. (Text by Georg Dennert & Rolf Jager). Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1984-113]
1962
U (Stack - oversize)Dondi dall'Orologio, Giovanni, 1318?-1389 ; Baillie, G. H. (Granville Hugh), 1873-1951 ; Lloyd, H. Alan (Herbert Alan) ; Ward, F. A. B. (Francis Alan Burnett)
The planetarium of Giovanni de Dondi, citizen of Padua : a manuscript of 1397
Translated by G. H. Baillie ; with additional material from another Dondi manuscript translated by H. Alan Lloyd ; translations edited by F.A.B. Ward. London : Antiquarian Horological Society, 1974. Millburn bequest
[2007-10]
1974
U (Stack - oversize)Doppelmaier, Johann Gabriel
Dritte Erossnung der neuen Mathematische Werck-Schule/
Nicolai Bion, in welcher Die Zubereitung und der Gebrauch verschrieben wird/ von Johann .../ P.P. Nurnberg/ ben Peter Conrad Monath/ 1721. 4to. Blue paper cover - unbound.
[Unknown]
1721
U (Stack - oversize)Egerton, Judy
Wright of Derby
London : Tate Gallery, c1990 "Published ... on the occasion of the exhibition at the Tate Gallery: 7 Feb.-22 Apr., 1990, Grand Palais, Paris: 17 May-23 Jul., 1990, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: 6 Sept.-2 Dec., 1990" - t.p. verso Millburn bequest
[2007-19]
1990
U (Stack - oversize)Elton, Thomas
Elucidation of the Transparent Astrarium: an Attempt to facilitate and promote in the youthful mind, a knowledge of the Fixed Stars, showing their relative places and situations in the heavens: and the times of their Rising, Southing, and Setting; Whereby, the heavens may be comtemplated with ease and advantage as well as with admiration and delight
Intended as a Companion to the Transparent Orrery, Dedicated to Deane F. Walker, Esq. London: T. Gardiner & Son, 1818. Photocopy.
[1979-112]
1818
U (Stack - oversize)Exposition universelle internationale de 1900
Musee Retrospectif de la Classe 15: Instruments de precision a l'exposition universelle internationale de 1900, a Paris. Rapport du Comite d'Installation
Catalogue of French exhibition of 1900. With figure of astrolabe of Aboul fath Mousa purchased by Lewis Evans, p. 21 f. 2 copies, 1 imperfect containing a receipt for the purchase of an astrolabe by Lewis Evans from the Chelsea Furniture Co. for ฃ250.
[Unknown]
1900
U (Stack - oversize)Fellocker, Sigmund
Geschichte der Sternwarte der Benediktiner-Abtei Kremsmunster
Linz, 1864. Druck von J. Feichtinger's Erben.
[Unknown]
1864
U (Stack - oversize)Festo AG and Co.
Festo Harmonices Mundi
Advertisement catalogue containing articles about the astrolabe. Germany: Esslingen, Festo AG and Co. 2001. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2001-89]
2001
U (Stack - oversize)Forien de Rochesnard, Jean; Lugan, Jacques
Album des Poids de France
n.p. (1957) Second Edition 1976. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1980-213]
1976
U (Stack - oversize)Frazier, Arthur H.
United States Standards of Weights and Measures: Their Creation and Creators
Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1978-695]
1978
U (Stack - oversize)Frazier, Arthur H.
William Gunn Price and the Price Current Meters
Paper 70, pp. 37-68, from United States National Museum Bulletin 252: Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology. Washington: Smithsonian Press, 1967. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1967-122]
1967
U (Stack - oversize)Frazier, Arthur H.
Water Current Meters In The Smithsonian Collections of The National Museum of History and Technology
Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology/no. 28. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1974. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[Unknown]
1974
U (Stack - oversize)Goodison, N.
"Clockmaker and cabinetmaker"
offprint from Antiques, vol. 95, June 1969.
[1969-144]
1969
U (Stack - oversize)Goodison, N.
English Barometers 1680-1860. A History of English Domestic Barometers and their Makers
London: Cassell, 1969.
[1969-170]
1969
U (Stack - oversize)Granlund, Ingalill; Granlund, John
Lapska ben-och trakalendrar
Nordiska Museet: Acta Lapponica XIX. Almquist and Wiksell, Stockholm. 1973. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1974-162]
1973
U (Stack - oversize)Great Exhibition of 1851
Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations, 1851. Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue
By Authority of the Royal Commission. In three volumes: vol. I. Index and Introductory. Section I. - Raw Materials. II. Machinery. vol. II: Manufactures, Fine Arts, Colonies. vol. III: Foreign States. Spicer Brothers; W. Clowes and Sons, London. 1851.
[Unknown]
1851
U (Stack - oversize)Great Exhibition of 1851
Great Exhibition of the works of industry of all Nations. Reports of the Juries
Presentation Copy. London, printed for the Royal Commission, by William Clowes and Sons. 1852.
[1968-63]
1852
U (Stack - oversize)Greenhill, Basil
The National Maritime Museum
London: Scala/Philip Wilson (Philip Wilson Publishers & Summerfield Press), 1982. Shelved under National Maritime Museum.
[1983-68]
1982
U (Stack - oversize)Grocers' Company (London, England)
A short history of the Grocers' Company : together with a description of Grocers' Hall and the principal objects of interest therein.
[London] : Metcalfe and Cooper, printers to the Grocer's Company, 1960. Millburn bequest. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2007-11]
1960
U (Stack - oversize)Gunther, R. T.
Various titles
"Armilla or Armillary Sphere", "Astrolabe", and "Dial and Dialling"; offprints (bound together) of 3 entries from the 1930 edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, vol. ?2, pp. 385-6, 574-5, & vol. ?8, pp. 310-314.
[Unknown]
1930
U (Stack - oversize)Gunther, R. T.
"ARMILLA or ARMILLARY SPHERE"
in Encyclopaedia Britannica, p. 385. Spine title: "Ency. Brit. Articles - Dialling. 1930".
[Unknown]
1930
U (Stack - oversize)Gunther, R. T.
"ASTROLABE"
in Encyclopaedia Britannica, pp. 574-575. Spine title: "Ency. Brit. Articles - Dialling. 1930".
[Unknown]
1930
U (Stack - oversize)Gunther, R. T.
"DIAL and DIALLING"
in Encyclopaedia Britannica, pp. 310-314. Spine title: "Ency. Brit. Articles - Dialling. 1930".
[Unknown]
1930
U (Stack - oversize)Hartner, Willy
Die Goldhorner von Gallehus
Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1969.
[1972-195]
1969
U (Stack - oversize)Harvard University, Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments
Checklist of Current Exhibition Labels
1990; Bound volume of labels to three exhibitions: 'Ivory Diptych Sundials, 1580-1750 ...', '... the Development and Use of the Optical Microscope', and '... the History of the Slide Rule'; Presented by Dr P. M. Gouk Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1991-6]
1990
U (Stack - oversize)Hawkes, Nigel
Early scientific instruments
New York : Abbeville Press, 1981. Millburn bequest. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2007-405]
1981
U (Stack - oversize)Hawkins, Gerald S.
Astro-Archaeology
Cambridge, Mass.: Smithsonian Institution Astrophysical Observatory, October 28, 1966. Smithsonian Institution Astrophysical Observatory: Research in Space Science: Special Report no. 226. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1967-313]
1966
U (Stack - oversize)Hodson, F. R. (ed.)
The Place of Astronomy on the Ancient World
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, vol. 276 no. 1275, May 2, 1974. Contributors: R. R. Newton, A. Aaboe, A. Sachs, R. A. Parker, J. Needham, J. E. S. Thompson, R. J. C. Atkinson, D. Lewis, A. Thom, G. S. Hawkins, E. W. MacKie, H. H. Lamb, D. G. Kendall, D. G. King-Hele, S. Piggott. London: The Royal Society, 1974. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1974-107]
1974
U (Stack - oversize)Hohenester, Adolf; Dorfer, Anton
Aus dem Erbe grosser Grazer Physiker: Katalog zur Ausstellung an der Universitatsbibliothek der Karl-Franzens-Universitat Graz, 15. Juni - 1. Oktober 1992
Graz: Universitatsbibliothek, 1992. Presented by Professor Gerard Turner. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2005-139]
1992
U (Stack - oversize)Hopp, Peter M.; Barnes, Colin A. (eds.)
Slide rule '05 Cambridge, England: Proceedings 11th International Meeting of Slide Rule Collectors, Quy Mill Hotel and Country Inn, Cambridge, England 21st-22nd October 2005
Ely: Colin Barnes in association with the UK Slide Rule Circle, 2005. Presented by the publisher.
[2006-38]
2005
U (Stack - oversize)Janin, Louis
Le Cadran Solaire Analemmatique: Histoire et Developpements
Centre Technique de l'Industrie Horlogere, October 18, 1974. Photocopy.
[Unknown]
1974
U (Stack - oversize)Jenemann, Hans R.
Die Waage des Chemikers
Frankfurt am Main: DECHEMA, 1979. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1980-194]
1979
U (Stack - oversize)Jenemann, Hans R.
Eine kurze Eintwicklungsgeschichte der wissenschaftlichen Waage
Jungingen: Gebr. Bosch, Waagenfabrik, n.d. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1980-195]
[n.d.]
U (Stack - oversize)Jenkins, Gerald; Bear, Magdalen
Sundials & Timedials
A collection of working models to cut-out and glue together; Diss, Norfolk: Tarquin Publications, 1987
[1989-102]
1987
U (Stack - oversize)Jenkins, Gerald; Bear, Magdalen
The Sun, Moon & Tides
Diss, Norfolk: Tarquin Publications, 1991; (Cut-out models of the Moon & two types of dial, with instructions)
[1994-89]
1991
U (Stack - oversize)Jewell, Brian
Veteran Scales and Balances
Tunbridge Wells: Midas Books, 1978.
[1980-122]
1978
U (Stack - oversize)Johnson, E. J.
Practical illustrations of the necessity for ascertaining the deviations of the compass
London, 1847
[1970-113]
1847
U (Stack - oversize)Josten, C. H.
"Scientific Instruments From the Thirteenth to the Nineteenth Century"
in The Connoisseur, vol. 134, no. 540, (October 1954), pp. 85-91
[1964- ]
1954
U (Stack - oversize)Kenney, Cyril Ernest
The quadrant and the quill : a book written in honour of Captain Samuel Sturmy, "a tryed and trusty sea-man" and author of The Mariner's Magazine, 1669
London : [s.n.], 1947. Millburn bequest.
[2007-23]
1947
U (Stack - oversize)King, Henry C. ; Millburn, John R.
Geared to the stars : the evolution of planetariums, orreries, and astronomical clocks
Bristol : Hilger, 1978. Millburn bequest.
[2007-414]
1978
U (Stack - oversize)Korte, Bernhard
"Von Abakus bis Zuse - ein Abriss der Geschichte der Rechenmaschine"
in Bonner Universitatsblatter 1981, Bonn: Universitat Bonn, 1981, pp. 15-37.
[1982-3]
1981
U (Stack - oversize)Landry, C.-F.
"Quelques curiosites des chiffres et du calcul"
in Pour les ans de l'Union Vaudoise du Credit, [1964], pp. 29 ff Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1964-64]
1964
U (Stack - oversize)Liesgang Joseph
Dimensio graduum meridiani Viennensis et Hungarici ...
Vienna, 1770
[1967-250]
1770
U (Stack - oversize)Lips, Joest (Justus Lipsius)
De Cruce Libri Tres Ad sacram profanamque historiam utiles. Una cum Notis. Editio quarta, serio castigata
(1599). Antuerpiae, ex Officina Plantiniana, apud Joannem Moretum. 4to. Bound with Lipsius, Poliorceticon.
[Unknown]
1599
U (Stack - oversize)Lips, Joest (Justus Lipsius)
Dispunctio Notarum Mirandulani Codicis ad Cor. Tacitum
Antuerpiae, ex Officina Plantiniana, apud Joannem Moretum. 1602. 4to. Bound with Lipsius, Poliorceticon.
[Unknown]
1602
U (Stack - oversize)Lips, Joest (Justus Lipsius)
De Bibliothecis Syntagma
Antuerpiae, ex Officina Plantiniana, apud Joannem Moretum. 1602. 4to. Bound with Lipsius, Poliorceticon.
[Unknown]
1602
U (Stack - oversize)Lips, Joest (Justus Lipsius)
Poliorceticon sive de Machinis. Tormentis. Telis. Libri Quinque. Ade Historiarum lucem
Editio altera, correcta & aucta. (1599). Antuerpiae, ex Officina Plantiniana, apud Joannem Moretum. 4to.
[Unknown]
1599
U (Stack - oversize)Lloyd, H. Alan
"A Sixteenth Century mechanical globe"
in The Connoisseur Year Book, 1957, pp. 52-55. (This article refers to Eberhardt Baldewin's Globe). Edited and Compiled by L. G. G. Ramsey, F. S. A. The Connoisseur, 28 and 30, Grosvenor Gardens, S.W.1.
[1958-88]
1957
U (Stack - oversize)Luc, J. A. De
Recherches sur les Modifications de l'Atmosphere. Contenant; l'Histoire Critique du Barometre et du Thermometre, un traite sur la Construction de ces Instrumens, des experiences relatives a leurs usages, et principalement a la Mesure des Hauteurs & a la corrections des Refractions Moyennes
Avec Figures. Dediees a M. M. de l'Academie Royale des Sciences de Paris par ... Two Volumes. A Geneve, 1772. 4to. Formerly the property of the Earl of Roden, K. S. P.
[Unknown]
1772
U (Stack - oversize)Ludlam, [William]
Astronomical Observations made in St. John's College, Cambridge, in the years 1767 and 1768: with an Account of Several Astronomical Instruments
By the Reverend Mr. Ludlam. Cambridge, Printed by J. Archdeacon Printer to the University: for T. Cadell, Successor to Mr. Millar, in the Strand, London. 1769. 4to. Formerly the property of A. Robertson, and S. P. Rigaud, Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford
[Unknown]
1769
U (Stack - oversize)Lyall, Kenneth ; Whipple Museum of the History of Science
Electrical and magnetic instruments [The Whipple Museum of the History of Science catalogue 8]
Cambridge: Whipple Museum of the History of Science, 1991. Presented by the publisher. [2 copies with same accession number - other at U/WHI]
[1991-190]
1991
U (Stack - oversize)Maistrov, L. E.
Nauchnye pribory. Pribory i instrumenty istoricheskogo znacheniya
Moscow, 1968. (Contributors: Maistrov, Chenekal, Kosobutskyj, Novokshanova-Soklovskaja, & Jolovanova.) Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1968-482]
1968
U (Stack - oversize)Marshack, Alexander
"New techniques in the analysis and interpretation of mesolithic notation and symbolic art"
offprint from Acts of the Valcamonica Symposium, Capo di Ponte, 1970, pp. 479-494. Missing, December 2018.
[1971-09]
1970
U (Stack - oversize)Megger
17 pamphlets dealing with resistance and conductivity metering, especially associated with the firm of Evershed & Vignoles Ltd.
[1976-39]
[n.d.]
U (Stack - oversize)Mensing Collection
Sammlung Mensing: Altwissenschaftliche Instrumente
Katalog bearbeitet von Max Engelmann. Frederik Muller & Co., Amsterdam. (Ant. W. M. Mensing). 1924. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
1924
U (Stack - oversize)Michel, Henri
'Catalogue d'une Collection d'Instruments de Mathematiques appartenant a Henri Michel Ingenieur'
Photocopy of manuscript catalogue. Presented by Jan de Graeve Esq., Brussels
[1982-83]
[n.d.]
U (Stack - oversize)Michel, Henri
Introduction a l'Etude d'une Collection d'Instruments Anciens de Mathematiques
Anvers: De Sikkel, 1939. (Catalogue of the Liege Exhibition 1939). 2 copies. Gunther Loan Collection; & Sherwood Taylor's copy, 1947 Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1940-6/ ] & [Unknown]
1939
U (Stack - oversize)Multhauf, Robert P.
"The Introduction of self-registering meteorological instruments"
offprint from United States National Museum Bulletin 228, 1961, (Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology) Paper 23, pp. 95-116. Smithsonian Institution. Washington, D. C.
[1961-119]
1961
U (Stack - oversize)Morzer Bruyns, W. F. J.
Lijst van Instrumenten in de Verzameling van het Nederlandsch Historisch Scheepvaart Museum te Amsterdam
Amsterdam: Nederlandsch Scheepvaart Museum, 1971.
[1978-501]
1971
U (Stack - oversize)National Maritime Museum
An Inventory of the Navigation and Astronomy Collections in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
Three volumes, and supplement. Vol. I, 1971; and vols. II and III, and Change No. I, 1973.
[1971-56] & [1973-142 to 144]
1971-1973
U (Stack - oversize)National Maritime Museum (Great Britain)
The Restoration of the Old Royal Observatory Greenwich: with a Provisional List of Instruments & Clocks, 1676-1835
Greenwich: The Museum, 1966
[1966-243]
1966
U (Stack - oversize)Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
1700-tal Tanke och form i rokokon
Exhibition catalogue: Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 5 oktober 1979-6 januari 1980.
[1980-15]
1980
U (Stack - oversize)Ordnance Survey
Comparisons of the Standards of Length ... made at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton
London, 1866; Shelved under A. R. Clarke
[1966-184]
1866
U (Stack - oversize)Oudheidskamer van het IJkwezen
Gewichten in Beeld: 18 Afbeeldingen uit de Oudheidskamer van het IJkwezen te 's-Gravenhage
(Introduction by A. van Diest; appendix by J. Bot); Amsterdam: Vereniging van Verzamelaars van Maten en Gewichten, 1977. Together with a leaflet describing the Oudheidskamer van het IJkwezen, Delft, n.d. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1984-175]
1977
U (Stack - oversize)Oxmantown, Lord
"An Account of Experiments on the Reflecting Telescope"
offprint from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1840, pp. 503-527 and plates XX/XXI. Received May 9, Read June 18, 1840. Bound with the Earl of Rosse, "Observations on the Nebulae". (*)
[Unknown]
1840
U (Stack - oversize)Patterson, Carlile P.
"Formulae and Factors for the computation of Geodetic Latitudes, Longitudes, and Azimuths"
(Methods and Results, of the United States Coast Survey. Appendix no. 19 - Report of 1875 by the Superintendent); offprint from The United States Coast Survey Report for the year 1875. pp. 315-368. Bound with William Roy, "An Account of the Trigonometrical Operation".
[Unknown]
1875
U (Stack - oversize)Petit Palais, Paris
Tresors des Rois de Danemark
Exposition organisee, avec la collaboration de la Collection de Rosenborg, par le Gouvernement du Royaume de Danemark, l'Association Francaise d'Action Artistique et la Ville de Paris a l'occasion de la visite officielle en France de Sa Majeste la Reine Margrethe II & Son Altesse Royale le Prince Consort. Petit Palais, 15 octobre 1978 au 7 janvier 1979.
[1979-138]
1979
U (Stack - oversize)Porter, Roy, 1946-2002 ; Bennett, J. A. (James A.) ... [et al.]
Science and profit in 18th-century London
Cambridge : Whipple Museum of the History of Science, c1985. Published to accompany a special exhibition at the Whipple Museum of the History of Science. Millburn bequest. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2007-400]
1985
U (Stack - oversize)Practical Mechanic's Journal
Scientific Record of the Great Exhibition, 1862
London: Longman, 1862
[Unknown]
1862
U (Stack - oversize)Raloff, Janet (ed.)
A Guide to the Adler Planetarium
Chicago: [s.n.], 1973. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2006-61]
1973
U (Stack - oversize)Ramsden, J.
Description of an Engine for Dividing Strait Lines on Mathematical Instruments
... 1779. Bound with Ramsden, Description of an Engine for dividing Mathematical Instruments, and filed under S. Vince, A Treatise on Practical Astronomy.
[Unknown]
1779
U (Stack - oversize)Ramsden, J.
Description of an Engine for dividing Mathematical Instruments
By Mr. J. Ramsden, Mathematical Instrument-Maker. Published by Order of the Commissioners of Longitude. London: Printed by William Richardson; and sold by John Nourse, in the Strand; and Mess. Mount and Page, Tower-Hill. 1777. 4to. Bound with and filed under S. Vince, A Treatise on Practical Astronomy.
[Unknown]
1777
U (Stack - oversize)Ramsden, [Jesse]
Description of the Universal Equatoreal, and of the New Refraction Apparatus, much Improved by Mr. ... with the Method of adjusting the Instrument for Observation. As also Instructions for making Observations with it
London, January 1791. Printed for private distribution by the Hon. J. Stuart Mackensie. 4to. Bound with and filed under S. Vince, A Treatise on Practical Astronomy.
[Unknown]
1791
U (Stack - oversize)Rathborne, Aaron
The Surveyor in Foure bookes
London Printed by W: Stansby for, W: Burre. 1616. Folio. 2 copies. Formerly the property of Lloyd Kenyon (1 copy)
[Unknown]
1616
U (Stack - oversize)Ray, William; Ray, Marlys
The Art of Invention: Patent Models and Their Makers
Princeton: The Pyne Press, 1974
[1984-44]
1974
U (Stack - oversize)Rees, [Abraham]
[Articles on the Orrery and Planetarium]
Reprinted from Rees's-Cyclopaedia, 1808-20. With plates I-XIII. Presented by H. Minn
[1928- ]
1808-1820
U (Stack - oversize)Repsold, Joh. A.
Zur Geschichte der Astronomischen Messwerkzeuge von Purbach bis Reichenbach 1450 bis 1830
Leipzig 1908
[1974-121]
1908
U (Stack - oversize)Rohr, Rene R. J.
Die Sonnenuhr : geschichte, theorie, funktion
Munchen : Callwey Verlag, 1986. Part of donation from Christopher Daniel, July 2013.
[2014-140/3]
1986
U (Stack - oversize)Rosse, Earl of
"Observations on the Nebulae"
offprint from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1850, pp. 499-514 and plates XXXV-XXXVIII. Received June 19, - Read June 20, 1850. Formerly the property of J. L. E. Dreyer
[Unknown]
1850
U (Stack - oversize)Rosse, Earl of
"On Some Recent Improvements made in the Mountings of the Telescopes at Birr Castle"
offprint from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Part I, 1880, pp. 153-160 and plates 11-13. Received May 14, - Read June 19, 1879. (Paper VI). Bound with his "Observations on the Nebulae" (*)
[Unknown]
1880
U (Stack - oversize)Rosse, Earl of
"Observations on some of the Nebulae"
offprint from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Received June 10, - Read June 13, 1844. pp. 321-324, and plates XVIII/XIX. Bound with his "Observations on the Nebulae".
[Unknown]
1844
U (Stack - oversize)Rosse, Earl of
"On the Construction of Specula of Six-feet Aperture; and a Selection from the Observations of Nebulae made with them"
offprint from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Part III. 1861. pp. 681-745, and plates XXIV-XXXI. Received June 5, Read June 20, 1861. Bound with his "Observations on the Nebulae".
[Unknown]
1861
U (Stack - oversize)Rosse, Earl of
"Observations of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars made with the Six-foot and Three-foot Reflectors at Birr Castle, from the year 1848 up to the year 1878"
offprint from the Scientific Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society, vol. 2. Series II. Paper I, pp. 1-178 and Appendix, and Plates I. to VI. Dublin, 1880.
[Unknown]
1880
U (Stack - oversize)Sarzosus, Franciscus
In aequatorem planetarum
libri duo. 42 leaves. ?First edition. Paris 1526.
[1975-1]
1526
U (Stack - oversize)Saussure, Horace-Benedict de
Essais sur l'Hygrometrie
Ier. Essai. Description d'un nouvel Hygrometre comparable. II. Essai. Theorie de l'hygrometrie. III. Essai. Theorie de l'evaporation. IV. Essai. Application des theories precedentes a quelques phenomenes de la meteorologie. A Neuchatel, chez Samuel Fauche pere et fils, Imprimeurs, Libraires du Roi. 1783.
[1949- ]
1783
U (Stack - oversize)Savage-Smith, Emilie
Islamicate Celestial Globes: Their History, Construction, and Use
With a chapter on iconography by Andrea P. A. Belloli. Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1985. Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, no. 46. (Includes catalogue of the Islamic celestial globes in MHS: 14 items, see index pp. 332-3). Presented by the publisher
[1986-73/1]
1985
U (Stack - oversize)Schlogl, Michaela (ed.)
Festschrift 100 Jahre Rudolf & August Rost : 1888-1988
Wien : Rudolf & August Rost, [1988?]. Presented by David Wallis per G.L'E. Turner.
[2007-122]
1988?
U (Stack - oversize)Schott, C. A.
"Determination of Time, Latitude, and Azimuth."
(Professional Papers. United States Coast Survey. Carlile P. Patterson, Superintendent). Reprinted from The Coast Survey Reports for 1866, 1868, and 1872. Government Printing Office, Washington. 1876. Bound with and filed under William Roy, "An Account of the Trigonometrical Operation".
[Unknown]
1876
U (Stack - oversize)Schott, Charles A.
"Measurement of a Primary Base-Line on Peach-Tree Ridge, near Atlanta, Georgia, in 1872 and 1873, by C. O. Boutelle, Assistant. - Computed and Reported by ... Assistant"
offprint from The United States Coast Survey Report for 1873. Bound with and filed under William Roy, "An Account of the Trigonometrical Operation".
[Unknown]
1873
U (Stack - oversize)Schreiber, Beorge
Buchsenmeister-Discurs, eine neuerfundene Kugel-Tafel, Abtheilung der Stucke, Laveten und Visir-Stabe
Breslau, ?1656. ("Feuerwercks Laboratorium, ..." part of this volume, published in 1671).
[Unknown]
1656?
U (Stack - oversize)Science Museum
The Foucault Pendulum
London: Science Museum, [s.d.]
[1985-165]
[n.d.]
U (Stack - oversize)Science Museum
Science Museum Exhibition of Musical Boxes
December 7th to April 13th 1980; On loan from the National Technical Museum Prague; [London: Science Museum, 1980]; (A4 leaflet) [duplicate entry?]
[Unknown]
1980
U (Stack - oversize)Science Museum
Various titles
Folder of leaflets (A4-size): "Gandolfi - A Family of Cameramakers"; "Glass Technology Gallery" (78-771)/2; "Lighting" 2 copies; "The Locks and Fastenings Gallery" (78-771)/1; "The Printing and Paper Gallery"; "The Surveying Gallery" "The Typewriter" (78-771)/3
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
U (Stack - oversize)Science Museum
Glass Technology Gallery
London: Science Museum, [s.d.]
[1978-771/2]
[n.d.]
U (Stack - oversize)Science Museum
Lighting
London: Science Museum, [s.d.]
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
U (Stack - oversize)Science Museum
The Locks and Fastenings Gallery
London: Science Museum, [s.d.]
[1978-771/1]
[n.d.]
U (Stack - oversize)Science Museum
The Printing and Paper Gallery
London: Science Museum, [s.d.]
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
U (Stack - oversize)Science Museum
The Surveying Gallery
London: Science Museum, [s.d.]
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
U (Stack - oversize)Science Museum
The Typewriter
London: Science Museum, [s.d.]
[1978-771/3]
[n.d.]
U (Stack - oversize)Science Museum
Science Museum Exhibition of Musical Boxes December 7th to April 13th 1980 On Loan from the National Technical Museum Prague
London: Science Museum, 1980
[Unknown]
1980
U (Stack - oversize)Sedillot, J.J.
Traite des Instruments Astronomiques des Arabes
compose au treizieme siecle par Aboul Hhassan Ali, de Maroc intitule ... (Collection des commencements et des fins) traduit de l'Arabe sur le manuscrit 1147 de la Bibliotheque Royale par J.-J. Sedillot ... et publie par L.-Am. Sedillot. Tome Premier (1834) and Tome Deuxieme (1835) (bound together). Paris imprime par authorisation du Roi a l'Imprimerie Royale. 1834-35.
[Unknown]
1834-1835
U (Stack - oversize)Seymour, Webb
"Description of a Clinometer"
offprint from Transactions of the Geological Society, vol. 3, pp. 385-391 and plates 25 and 26. (Read May 20th, 1814). (Published 1816).
[Unknown]
1816
U (Stack - oversize)Skinner, F. G.
Weights and Measures: their ancient origins and their development in Great Britain up to AD 1855
A Science Museum survey. (Edited after the author's death by Arthur Stowers, K. R. Gilbert, & J. T. van Riemsdijk). London: HMSO., 1967.
[1967-351]
1967
U (Stack - oversize)Sloley, R. W.
"Primitive Methods of Measuring Time - with special reference to Egypt"
offprint from The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, vol. XVII parts III and IV, November 1931, pp. 166-178 and plates XVI-XLIII. (*)
[1945- ]
1931
U (Stack - oversize)Slouka, Hubert; & others (eds.)
Astronomie v Ceskoslovensku od dob nejstarsich do dneska
no. 11 [Svazek] in the series Veda a Zivot. V Praze. 1952. Osveta statni Osvetove Nakladatelstvi Narodni Podnik.
[1959-48]
1952
U (Stack - oversize)Snelling, Thomas
Thirty Three Plates of English Medals
By the late Mr. ...; London. Sold by Thomas Snelling, Printseller in Fleet Street. 1776. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
1776
U (Stack - oversize)Stevenson, David
A treatise on the application of marine surveying and hydrometry to the practise of civil engineering
Edinburgh: A. & C. Black, 1842.
[1970-101]
1842
U (Stack - oversize)Stock, John T.
Development of the Chemical Balance
A Science Museum survey. London: HMSO., 1969.
[1969-80]
1969
U (Stack - oversize)Stoneman, Milton
Easy-to-Make Wooden Sundials: Instructions and Plans for Five Projects With Suggestions for Designing Your Own Pocket Sundial
New York: Dover Publications, 1982.
[1987-82]
1982
U (Stack - oversize)Talbot, Stuart
Ivory telescopes : perspicillum : anno 1608-1720
[S.l : Stuart Talbot, 2008] "This limited edition monograph is numbered No.15 of 20 copies"--t.p. Reprint of the article in Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society, no. 97 June 2008. Accompanied by CD-ROM containing English and German versions of the article plus colour images. Presented by the author.
[2008-12]
2008
U (Stack - oversize)Technicon
Technicon
no. 28, Zomer 1984; Delft: Stichting Technisch-Historische Verzamelingen; Shelved under JANSEN; Presented by Dr G. L'E. Turner
[1984-347]
1984
U (Stack - oversize)Thiele, Georg
Antike Himmelsbilder mit Forschungen zu Hipparchos, Aratos und seinen Fortsetzern und Beitragen zur Kunstgeschichte des Sternhimmels
Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, Berlin. 1898. [Photocopy of original]
[1967-158]
1898
U (Stack - oversize)Treue, Wilhelm
Kulturgeschichte der Schraube von der Antike bis zum Achtzehnten Jahrhundert
Herausgegeben im Auftrag der Kamax-Werke Rudolf Kellermann, Osterode am Harz. Verlag F. Bruckmann Munchen. 1955. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1955- ]
1955
U (Stack - oversize)Turner, A. J.
The Clockwork of the Heavens
An Exhibition of Astronomical Clocks, watches and allied scientific instruments presented by Asprey and Company with the special help of Harriet Wynter and the collaboration of various museums and private collections. London: Asprey & Co., November 1973. [Cf. article of same name and date by A. J. Turner & Sebastian Whitestone].
[1979-253]
1973
U (Stack - oversize)Turner, Anthony John
Early scientific instruments : Europe 1400-1800
London : Published for Sotheby's Publications by Philip Wilson Publishers ; New York, NY : Distributed in the U.S.A. by Sotheby's Publications, Harper & Row, 1987. Millburn bequest.
[2007-22]
1987
U (Stack - oversize)Turner, Gerard L'Estrange
Nineteenth-century scientific instruments
London : Sotheby Publications ; Berkeley : University of California Press, 1983. Millburn bequest.
[2007-29]
1983
U (Stack - oversize)Various authors.
Festschrift Dr h.c. Albert J. Schmidheini zu seinem achtzigsten Geburtstag am 3. November 1963
Herausgaben von den Direktion und von den wissenschaftlichen Abteilungen der Wild Heerbrugg AG, Heerbrugg/Schweiz Werke fur Optik und Feinmechanik. Heerbrugg: [s.n.], [ca 1963].
[1979-23]
1963?
U (Stack - oversize)Vince, S.
A Treatise on Practical Astronomy
Cambridge, Printed by J. Archdeacon Printer to the University; for J. & J. Merrill, J. Nicholson and W. Lunn, in Cambridge; J. Deighton, Holborn, T. Cadell, P. Elmsly, F. Wingrave and H. Gardner, in the Strand, B. White & Son, in Fleetstreet, T. & J. Egerton, Whitehall, R. Faulder, Bond-street, G. & T. Wilkie, in St. Paul's Churchyard, and J. Evans, in Paternoster Row, London; J. Fletcher and D. Prince & J. Cooke, Oxford. 1790. 4to. Bound by Rigaud with other Astronomical works. From the Radcliffe Observatory
[Unknown]
1790
U (Stack - oversize)Wallis, Helen
Raleigh & Roanoke: The First English Colony In America, 1584-1590
March 8 - June 6, 1985; The British Library Exhibit Hosted By The North Carolina Museum Of History; Text By Helen Wallis; Raleigh: America's Four Hundredth Anniversary Committee / North Carolina Department Of Cultural Resources, 1985. Together with an 8-page pamphlet, and various related leaflets and posters. Presented by the publisher
[1986-6]
1985
U (Stack - oversize)Wallis, Peter John
Mathematical tradition in the north of England
Consett : NEBMA, c1991. An exhibition organised by Peter Wallis ... [et al.] for the annual conference of The Mathematical Association in Newcastle upon Tyne, 1991. Millburn bequest
[2007-15]
1991
U (Stack - oversize)Werner, Theodor Gustav
"Nurnbergs Erzeugung und Ausfuhr Wissenschaftlicher Geratz im Zeitalter der Entdeckungen: Das Martin - Behaim Problem in Wirtschaftsgeschichtlicher"
Betrachtung. Photocopy from M.V.G.N., vol. 53, 1965, pp. 69-149.
[Unknown]
1965
U (Stack - oversize)Whipple Museum of the History of Science ; Bennett, J. A.
Astronomy & navigation [The Whipple Museum of the History of Science catalogue 3]
Cambridge: The Whipple Museum of the History of Science, 1983. Presented by the Whipple Museum.
[1983-193]
1983
U (Stack - oversize)Whipple Museum of the History of Science ; Brown, Olivia
Balances and weights [The Whipple Museum of the History of Science catalogue 2]
Cambridge: The Whipple Museum of the History of Science, 1983. Presented by the Whipple Museum.
[1983-86]
1983
U (Stack - oversize)Whipple Museum of the History of Science ; Bryden, David J.
Sundials and related instruments [The Whipple Museum of the History of Science catalogue 6]
The Whipple Museum of the History of Science. Cambridge: The Whipple Museum of the History of Science, 1988. Presented by the publisher.
[1988-154]
1988
U (Stack - oversize)Whipple Museum of the History of Science ; Lyall, Kenneth
Electrical and magnetic instruments [The Whipple Museum of the History of Science catalogue 8]
Cambridge: Whipple Museum of the History of Science, 1991. Presented by the publisher. [2 copies with same accession number - other at U/LYA]
[1991-190]
1991
U (Stack - oversize)Woodford, Thomas
A Treatise containing The Description and Use Of a [New and] Curious Quadrant, Made and Finished By the Masterly Hand of that Excellent Mechanic, John Rowley; For Taking of Altitudes, And for Solving various Mathematical Problems in Geometry, Navigation, Astronomy, &c. Some of them by a bare Inspection of the Instrument, and others by easy Operations on it. Studiously adapted to the meanest Capacities. To which are prefixed, An Alphabetical Exposition of the Necessary Terms of Art, and a Plate of the Instrument.
By T. W. F.R.S. London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall. MDCCLVI. [1756]. 4to. With large folding plate of the quadrant. The words 'New and' in the title are deleted in MS [in all copies]. 2 copies. Formerly the property of John Henry Warre
[Unknown] & [1957-37]
1756
U (Stack - oversize)Worm, Olaus
Museum Wormianum. Seu Historia Rerum Rariorum, tam Naturalium, quam Artificialium, tam Domesticarum, quam Exoticarum, quae Hafniae Danorum in aedibus Authoris servantur. Adornata ab ..., Med. Doct.
Variis & accuratis Iconibus illustrata. Amstelodami, apud Ludovicum & Danielem Elzevirios. 1655. Folio. 2 copies. Formerly the property of Joseph Merewether, with MS note on second leaf; other copy: On permanent loan from University College, Oxford (D.105.38)
[1943- ] & [1962-65/ ]
1655
U (Stack - oversize)[Schmandt-Besserat, Denise (ed.)]
Early Technologies
Invited Lectures on the Middle East at the University of Texas at Austin, Volume Three. Malibu, Ca.: UNDENA Publications, 1979.
[1980-174]
1979
U (Stack - x oversize)Brahe, Tycho
Astronomiae instauratae Mechanica
Wandesburgi Anno CI I IIC; In Memoriam Reformatoris astronomiae practicae inclitissimi CCC Abhinc annos defuncti hoc opus ejus celeberrimum ad fidem editionis principis edendum curavit et praefatus est B. Hasselberg. Holmiae in Officina Typographica Rei Militaris Suecanae Arte Photolithographica excudebat Axel Lagrelius anno 1901 [MCMI]. From the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford
[Unknown]
1901
U (Stack - x oversize)Kircher, A.
Musaeum Kircherianum sive Musaeum ap. Athanasio Kirchero In Collegio Romano Societatis Jesu jam Pridem Incoeptum nuper restitutm, auctum, descriptum, & Iconibus illustratum
Excellentissimo Domino Francisco Mariae Ruspolo ... oblatum ap. Philippo Bonanni Societatis Jesu. Romae, 1709. Typis Georgii Plachi Caelaturam Profitenis, & Characterum Fusoriam prope S. Marcum. Folio. Bodleian Library duplicate no. F6. B. 3.
[Unknown]
1709
U (Stack - x oversize)Maddison, Francis; Savage-Smith, Emilie
Science, Tools and Magic
Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art v. 12. London: Nour Foundation in association with Azimuth Editions and Oxford University Press, 1997.
[1998-111]
1997
U (Stack - x oversize)Marshack, Alexander
Notation dans les gravures du paleolithique superieur. Nouvelles methodes d'analyse
Bordeaux, 1970. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1971-37]
1970
U (Stack - x oversize)Ravenstein, E. G.
Martin Behaim. His Life and His Globe
By E. G. Ravenstein, F.R.G.S. First Victoria Gold Medallist of the Royal Geographical Society. With a Facsimile of the Globe printed in colours Eleven maps and Seventeen illustrations. George Philip & Son, Ltd. London. 1908. Edition of 510 copies, this being no. 401.
[1961-35]
1908
U (Stack - x oversize)Schuck, A.
Der Kompass
I. 46 Tafeln und Verzeichnis derselben. 1911. II. Sagen von der Erfindung des Kompasses. Magnet, Calamita, Bussole, Kompass. Die Vorganger des Kompasses. II a. Tafel 47-79. 1915. III. Nactrag su Der Kompass II. Armierte Magnetsteine (naturliche Magnete) mit verzierter Fassung. Tafel 80-88. 1918. Hamburg - Emil Korff (1911) and Kruse and Freiherr.
[1963-25]
1911-1918
U (Stack - x oversize)Struve, F. G. W.
Beschreibung des auf der Sternwarte der Kaiserlichen Universitat zu Dorpat befindlichen grossen Refractors von Fraunhofer
Herausgegeben von ... Director der Sternwarte. Dorpat, 1825. Gedruckt bei J. C. Schunmann, Universitats-Buchdrucker. From the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford.
[Unknown]
1825
U (Stack -oversize)Roy, William
"An Account of the Trigonometrical Operation, whereby the Distance between the Meridians of the Royal Observatories of Greenwich and Paris has been determined"
By Major-general William Roy, F.R.S. and A.S.; offprint from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. LXXX, {...}, pp. 111-270 & Tabs. V-XV. Read February 25, 1790.
[1933- ]
1790
U (Stack)Adams, George
"A Catalogue of Mathematical, Philosophical, and Optical Instruments, Made under the Inspection and Direction of George Adams, Mathematical Instrument-Maker to His Majesty George III"
at end of A Treatise Describing ... New Celestial and Terrestrial Globes, third edition, 1772 (unpaginated, but continuously signatured with main text; 18 pages)
[Unknown]
1772
U (Stack)Adams, George
A Treatise describing the Construction, and explaining the Use, of New Celestial and Terrestrial Globes. Designed to illustrate, in the most Easy and Natural Manner, the Phoenomena of the Earth and Heavens, and to shew the Correspondence of the Two Spheres. With a great Variety of Astronomical and Geographical Problems
The Third Edition, (1772) in which a Comprehensive View of the Solar System is given; and the Use of the Globes is farther shown in the Explanation of Spherical Triangles. London: Printed for and Sold by the Author, at Tycho Brahe's Head, no. 60, in Fleet-Street, 1772. 8vo. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
1772
U (Stack)Adams, George [jnr.]
Plates to the Geometrical And Graphical Essays
by the Late George Adams. The Second Edition, Corrected and Enlarged by William Jones. Printed by J. Dillon, & Co. and Sold by W. & S. Jones. London. 1797. Volume also contains: 'Appendix to Mr. Adams's Geometrical and Graphical Essays', by John Gale, 1791; and A Catalogue of Optical, Mathematical, and Philosophical Instruments, Made and Sold by W. & S. Jones, (no. 135).
[Unknown]
1797
U (Stack)Adams, George [jnr.]
Geometrical and Graphical Essays
Second Edition. Corrected and enlarged by William Jones. London. Printed by J. Dillon and Sold by William Jones [the author] 1797. 8vo. Formerly the property of the Surtees Library
[Unknown]
1797
U (Stack)Adler, Michael H.
The Writing Machine: a history of the typewriter
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1973.
[1974-11]
1973
U (Stack)Alberti, Hans-Joachim von
Mass und Gewicht: Geschichtliche und tabellarische Darstellungen von den Anfangen bis zur Gegenwart
Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1957.
[1960-38]
1957
U (Stack)Albuquerque, Luis de
"Instrumentos, abacos e graficos na nautica portuguesa dos seculos XVI e XVII"
Series of articles in Vertice Revista de Cultura e Arte: I "Anel Nautico", vol. XXVI no. 271-272, April-May 1966, pp. 282-297; II "Balestilha", vol. XXVI no. 277-278, October-November 1966, pp. 706-728; II "Balestilha (conclusao)", vol. XXVII no. 280-281, January-February 1967, pp. 70-90; III "Instrumento de sombras", vol. XXVII no. 287, August 1967, pp. 531-539; IV "Armila nautica", vol. XXVII no. 288, September 1967, pp. 618-624; V "Semi-circulo graduado", vol. XXVII no. 291, December 1967, pp. 851-856.
[1972-52]
1966-1967
U (Stack)Alderson, M. A.
An Essay on the Nature and Application of Steam, with an Historical Notice of the Rise and Progressive Improvement of the Steam-Engine
London: Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1834. (NB: List of Scientific Books by these publishers at end). The Prize Essay on this Subject at the London Mechanics Institution in the Year 1833. Presented by H. Minn, 1930
[1930- ]
1833
U (Stack)Alence, Joachim d', d. 1707?
Traittez des Barometres, Thermometres, et Notiometres, ou Hygrometres
Par Mr. D***. A Amsterdam, chez Henry Wetstein 1688. 12mo. 2 copies. Gunther Loan Collection (one)
[1940-6/ ] & [1960-89]
1688
U (Stack)Amman, Caesar
Quadrans astronomicus novus descriptus et examinatus in specula uranica Ingolstadiense
a P. Caesario Amman S. J. Math. et S. Ling. P. P. O. Augustae Vindelicorum, Sumptibus Viduae Eberhard Klett p. m. MDCCLXX [1770].
[Unknown]
1770
U (Stack)Anonymous
A History of Wonderful Inventions
London: Chapman and Hall, 1849. Formerly the property of E. Neville Rolfe. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
1849
U (Stack)Anonymous
"An Account of a Book, intitl'd, De Luminis Affectionibus Specimen Physico-Mathematicum, dedicated to Cardinal Polignac, and printed at Trevise and Venice, 1727, by Signior Rizzetti"
extract from Eames & Martyn, The Philosophical Transactions ... Abridged, vol. VI, 1734, pp. 145-146 (article VIII). (Extract consists of articles IV-VIII, pp. 129-146, containing chiefly John Hadley, "An Account of a Reflecting Telescope ..." and "The Description of an Instrument for taking Angles, by Reflections ..." [see separate entries]).
[Unknown]
1734
U (Stack)Anonymous
Philosophical Collections: Numb[er] 1
Containing an account of such physical, anatomical, chymical, mechanical, astronomical, optical, or other mathematical and philosophical experiments and observations as have lately come to the publishers hands. As also an account of some books of this kind lately published. London: printed for John Martyn, printer to the Royal Society, 1679. Bound with and shelved under Hooke, A Description of Helioscopes. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6]
1679
U (Stack)Anonymous
Philosophical Collections: Numb[er] 2.
London: printed for Moses Pitt, at the Angel in St Paul's Church-yard, 1681. Bound with and shelved under Hooke, A Description of Helioscopes. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6]
1681
U (Stack)Anonymous
Philosophical Collections: Numb[er] 5.
London: Printed for Richard Chitwel, printer to the Royal Society, at the Rose and Crown in St Paul's Church-yard, 1682. Bound with and shelved under Hooke, A Description of Helioscopes. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6]
1682
U (Stack)Anonymous
Philosophical Collections: Numb[er] 6.
London: Printed for Richard Chitwel, printer to the Royal Society, at the Rose and Crown in St Paul's Church-yard, 1682. Bound with and shelved under Hooke, A Description of Helioscopes. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6]
1682
U (Stack)Anonymous
Philosophical Transactions Numb[er] 81.
London: Printed for John Martyn, printer to the Royal Society, 1672. Bound with and shelved under Hooke, A Description of Helioscopes. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6]
1672
U (Stack)Anonymous
Philosophical Transactions Numb[er] 144.
Oxford: Printed by Leonard Lichfield, printer to the University, and are to be sold by Hen. Rogers at the Sign of the Bible in Westminster Hall, Sam. Smith at the Princes-Armes in S. Pauls Church-yard and by Hen. Clements Bookseller in Oxford. 1682/3 (two thirds). Bound with and shelved under Hooke, A Description of Helioscopes. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6]
1682?
U (Stack)Anonymous
The Hind and the Panther Transvers'd to the Story of The Country Mouse and the City-Mouse
Much Malice mingled with a little wit. Hind.Pan. Nec uult Panthera domari. Quae Genus. London: Printed for W. Davis, 1687. Bound with and shelved under Hooke, A Description of Helioscopes. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6]
1687
U (Stack)Anonymous
The Rehearsal, as it is now Acted at the Theatre-Royal
The Fifth Edition with Amendments and large Additions by the Author. London: Printed for Thomas Dring, and sold by John Newton under the King's Head Tavern over against the Inner-Temple-Gate in Fleet Street, 1687. Bound with and shelved under Hooke, A Description of Helioscopes. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6]
1687
U (Stack)Apian, Peter
Cosmographiae Introductio: cum quibusdam Gaeometriae ac Astronomiae principiis ad eam rem necessariis
Excusum Ingolstadii. M.D.XXIX. [Colophon at end:] Excusum Iogolstadii [sic] An.M.D.XXXIII. Mense Ianuario. [1533]. From the Chadenet Collection (catalogue no. 56); Billmeir Collection
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1533
U (Stack)Archinard, Margarida
Collection de Saussure
Geneva: Museum of Art & History, 1979. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1980-198]
1979
U (Stack)Atkinson, James
Epitome of the Art of Navigation; or, a Short, Easy and Methodical Way to become a Compleat Navigator
Containing, Practical Geometry, Plane and Spheric, Superficial and Solid; with its Uses in all Kinds of Mensuration. Trigonometry, Plane and Spheric, both Geometric, Instrumental, and Logarithmic; with its Uses in Navigation, viz. In Plane, Mercator's, and Great Circle-Sailing, Geography, Astronomy, the Projection of the Sphere, etc. The Gregorian or New Calendar, Description and Use of the Plane-Chart, Mercator's-Chart, both Globes, Hemispheres, and divers other Instruments. A New Form of keeping a Sea-Reckoning, or Account of a Ship's Way. A Traverse-Table; A Table of Meridional Parts; a Table of 10,000 Logarithms, and Logarithmic Sines, Tangents and Secants, carefully Corrected. By James Atkinson, Senior. The Whole revis'd, and corrected, with the utmost Care, By W. Mountaine, Teacher of the Mathematics, & F.R.S. London: Printed for W. and J. Mount, T. Page and Son, on Tower-Hill. M,DCC,LVIII [1758].
[1983-21]
1758
U (Stack)Babb, Maurice Jefferis
"David Rittenhouse"
in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, vol. LVI no. 223, July 1932, pp. 193-224. The Commemoration Address delivered at Scottish Rite Temple, Philadelphia, April 9, 1932, in connection with the Rittenhouse Bicentenary Celebration.
[Unknown]
1932
U (Stack)Bancroft Library
The Plate of Brass Reexamined: A Report Issued by The Bancroft Library University of California, Berkeley 1977
(With Appendices by Earle R. Caley, R. E. M. Hedges, Helen V. Michel & Frank Asaro, Cyril Stanley Smith, A. J. Schwarber); Berkeley: The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1977. Together with James D. Hart, The Plate of Brass Reexamined: A Supplementary Report ... 1979
[1985-146]
1979
U (Stack)Baxandall, D.
Catalogue of the Collections in the Science Museum South Kensington with Descriptive and Historical Notes and Illustrations: Mathematics: I. Calculating Machines and Instruments
Board of Education. London: HMSO., 1926. 2 copies; Shelved under Science Museum. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[Unknown]
1926
U (Stack)Baynes-Cope, A. D.
The study and conservation of globes
Wien : Internationale Coronelli-Gesellschaft, 1985. Millburn bequest. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2007-174]
1985
U (Stack)Bean, H. E.
Everyday Science: A Practical Course for Schools
Book Three. London: University of London Press, 1934.
[1981-136]
1934
U (Stack)Beauchamp, K. G.
Exhibiting electricity
London : Institution of Electrical Engineers, c1997. Millburn bequest.
[2007-261]
1997
U (Stack)Becher, J. J.
De Nova Temporis Dimetiendi Ratione, et Accurata Horologiorum Constructione, Theoria & Experientia
Ad Societatem Regiam Anglicanam in Collegio Greshamensi. Londini, Jan. 1680. Londini: typis T. N. & venales prostant apud Marcum Pardoe, sub signo Corvi Nigri e regione Palatii Bedfordiensis in via Regia vulgo dicta The Strand. 4to. Bound with Robert Hooke, "A Description of Helioscopes".
[Unknown]
1680
U (Stack)Becheri, J. J.
De Nova Temporis Dimetiendi Ratione, et Accurata Horologiorum Constructione, Theoria & Experientia
Ad Societatem Regiam Anglicanam in Collegio Greshamensi Londini, Jan. 1680. Londini: 1680. Bound with and shelved under Hooke, A Description of Helioscopes. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6]
1680
U (Stack)Beeching, Wilfred A.
Century of the Typewriter
New edition (first, 1974); Bournemouth: British Typewriter Museum Publishing, 1990
[1996-113]
1990
U (Stack)Belli, Silvio
Libro del misurar con la vista
di Silvio Belli Vicentino. Nel quale spinsegna, senza trauagliar con numeri, a misurar facilissimamente le distantie, l'altezze, e le profondita con il quadrato Geometrico, e con altri stromenti, de'quali in ogni luogo quasi in un subito si puo prouedere ... Appresso Giordano Ziletti. Venetia, MDLXVI [1566]. Lewis Evans Collection
[1960-12]
1566
U (Stack)Benassi, Stefano; Pallotti, Vincenzo
Scuola e Scienza Strumenti oggetti materiali
(With a chapter by Gino Tarozzi.); 6 Ricerche dell'Istituto per i beni artistici culturali naturali della Regione Emilia-Romagna. Bologna: Istituto per i beni artistici culturali naturali della Regione Emilia-Romagna, n.d. [1979]. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
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1979?
U (Stack)Bennett, Jim (ed.)
"Instrument case studies, 1850-1950: papers from the XXIth and XXIIth symposia of the Scientific Instrument Commission of the IUHPS, Division of the History of Science, Athens, 2002 and Newport News, 2003"
in Nuncius, anno 19, fasc. 2, 2004, pp. 671-732. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
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2004
U (Stack)Benton, W. A.
"The Interdependence of Invention and Technology"
A Lecture to the Institute of Patentees, January 9th, 1935. In volume 'Benton - Avery Balances'.
[Unknown]
1935
U (Stack)Benton, W. A.
"The Steeping of Barley and the So-called Saturation Point"
offprint from the Journal of the Institute of Brewing, vol. XXXVIII no. 5 (new series vol. XXIX), May 1932, pp. 245-264. Paper read at the Meeting of the Midland Counties Section, Birmingham, 15th November, 1931. In volume 'Benton - Avery Balances'.
[Unknown]
1932
U (Stack)Benton, W. A.
"Some Principles Involved in the Construction of Weighing Machines"
offprint from the Proceedings of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, May 1929, pp. 529-544. Paper read before the North Western Branch of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, Liverpool, 5th December 1928. In volume 'Benton - Avery Balances'.
[Unknown]
1929
U (Stack)Benton, W. A.
"An Instrument for the Rapid and Accurate Determination of the Specific Gravity of Solid Bodies"
reprint from the Proceedings of the Physical Society, vol. 41, 1929, p. 224. Demonstration given on February 8, 1929; reprinted by W. & T. Avery Ltd., Birmingham, 1930 (with the addition of one figure). In volume 'Benton - Avery Balances'.
[Unknown]
1930
U (Stack)Benton, W. A.
Scientific Seating in Schools and Colleges
Research Department, W. & T. Avery Ltd., Soho Foundry, Birmingham. Final Report, January 1934; presented to the Management in January 1934. In volume 'Benton - Avery Balances'.
[Unknown]
1934
U (Stack)Berriman, A. E.
Historical Metrology: A new analysis of the archaeological and the historical evidence relating to weights and measures
London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd.; New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc., 1953.
[1954- ]
1953
U (Stack)Berryer, Anne-Marie; Dresse de Lebioles, Liliane
La Mesure du Temps a Travers les Ages aux Musees Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire
Bruxelles: Musees Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, 1961. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
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1961
U (Stack)Bibliotheque Sainte-Genevieve, Paris
Science et Astrologie au XVIe Siecle: Oronce Fine et son Horloge Planetaire
(Folder, entitled as above, containing exhibition catalogue with same title, and an offprint of Denise Hillard & Emmanuel Poulle, "Oronce Fine et l'Horloge Planetaire de la Bibliotheque Sainte-Genevieve" from Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance, travaux et documents, tome XXXIII, 1971, pp. 311-334). Paris: Bibliotheque Sainte-Genevieve, 1971. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1983-113]
1971
U (Stack)Bigourdan, G.
Gnomonique ou Traite Theorique et Practique de la Construction des Cadrans Solaires, suivi de Tables Auxiliaires Relatives aux Cadrans et aux Calendriers
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1922. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1973-30]
1922
U (Stack)Bigourdan, G.
Gnomonique, ou traite theorique et pratique de la construction des cadrans solaires
Paris : Gauthier-Villars, 1956. Part of donation from Christopher Daniel, July 2013.
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1956
U (Stack)Blanc, Lucien. Galerie
Exposition l'Orfevrerie Civile en France aux XVIIe et XVIIIe Siecles
Du 10 Juillet au 10 Aout 1954. Galerie Lucien Blanc, 44, Cours Mirabeau, Aix-en-Provence, France. (NB especially nos. 194-220.)
[1957-7]
1954
U (Stack)Blundeville, Thomas
Mr. Blundevil His Exercises
contayning Eight Treatises, ... Which Treatises are very necessary to be read and learned of all young Gentlemen, ... To the furtherance of which Art of Navigation, the said Mr. Blundevil specially wrote the said Treatises, and of meere good will doth Dedicate the same to all young Gentlemen of this Realme. The seventh Edition corrected and somewhat enlarged by Ro. Hartwell Philomathematicus. London, Printed by Richard Bishop, and are to be sold by Benjamin Allen at the signe of the Flower-deluce in Popes-head Alley. 1636. 3 copies. On permanent loan from University College, Oxford (1) (R.8.17)
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1636
U (Stack)Boitsov, V. V. (ed.)
D. I. Mendeleev - Osnovopolozhnik Sovremennoi Metrologii
Moskva: Izdatel'stvo Standartov, 1978. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1986-18]
1978
U (Stack)Bolle, Bert
Barometers in Beeld
Lochem: Uitgeversmaatschappij De Tijdstroom, 1983. Presented by Professor Gerard Turner. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2005-153]
1983
U (Stack)Bonelli, Maria Luisa
Catalogo dei Globi Antichi conservati in Italia
Fascicolo 1: "I. globi Blaviani". vol. I in the Biblioteca of the Instituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza. Leo S. Olschki Editore, Florence. 1957. Shelved under Bonelli. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1957-51]
1957
U (Stack)Bonelli, Maria Luisa (ed.)
Catalogo degli strumenti del museo di storia della scienza
Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 1954.
[1955- ]
1954
U (Stack)Borchi, Emilio; Macii, Renzo
Alcuni Strumenti del Liceo Machiavelli di Lucca
Lucca: Maria Pacini Fazzi, 1991. Presented by Professor Gerard Turner.
[2005-159]
1991
U (Stack)Bos, H. J. M. (ed.)
Mechanical Instruments in the Utrecht University Museum
[Catalogue of] Utrecht 1968. Gift from Director of Utrecht Museum. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1968-69]
1968
U (Stack)Botzum, Richard; Botzum, Catherine
Scratch dials, sundials and unusual marks on Herefordshire churches
Herefordshire : Richard and Catherine Botzum, 1988.
[2014-140/13]
1988
U (Stack)Bourdin
Le Cours de Mathematique
contenant en cent figures une idee generale de toutes les parties de cette Science, l'usage de ses instrumens, diverses manieres de prendre les distances, l'Art d'arpenter, divers moyens de lever & tracer un Plan, la reduction des Figures par les Triangles de raport, la Trigonometrie, les Fortifications regulieres & irregulieres, leurs dehors, profil, eslevation, & sciagraphie. Contenant de plus un Traite de l'usage du Globe terrestre, & un autre de l'Optique Dioptrique & Catoptrique. Dedie a la Noblesse; Par le R. P. Bourdin, de la Compagnie de Iesus; Troisieme edition; A Paris, Ches Simon Benard ... , 1661.
[1954- ]
1661
U (Stack)Brahe, Tycho, 1546-1601 ; Raeder, Hans, b. 1869 ; Stromgren, Elis, 1870- ; Stromgren, Bengt, 1908-
Tycho Brahe's description of his instruments and scientific work : as given in Astronomiae instauratae mechanica (Wandesburgi 1598)
Translated and edited by Hans Raeder, Elis Stromgren and Bengt Stromgren. Kobenhavn : I Kommission hos E. Munksgaard, 1946. Millburn bequest.
[2007-25]
1946
U (Stack)Brewster, David
A Treatise on New Philosophical Instruments, for various purposes in the Arts and Sciences. With Experiments on Light and Colours
Edinburgh: printed for John Murray, Albemarle Street, London; and William Blackwood, Edinburgh. 1813. Formerly the property of Liverpool Library
[Unknown]
1813
U (Stack)Brosse, Louis-Philippe la
Traite Du Barometre, Ouvrage Mathematique, Physique Et Critique
Dans lequel on fait vour quelle est la nature de toutes fortes de Barometres, la maniere de s'en fervir; a quels usages un Barometre peut etre bon; &quelle est la cause de sa variation. Avec une Dissertation en forme d'Appendix, de la cause & de l'origine des Vents, & de leurs principales proprietez & circomstances. A Nancy, Chez Jean; Bapt. Cusson, Imprimeur-Lebraire de S.A.R. sur la Place. 1717. Avec Permission.
[Unknown]
1717
U (Stack)Brown, John
A Supplement to the Line of Proportion, or, Numbers. Containing The Description, and some Uses of a convenient Two-Foot Joynt-Rule: Upon which is inscribed divers Lines and Scales for several Uses sutable [sic] to all sorts of Artificers, or Workmens occasions. And also by the same Rule to take the Heights and Distances, and to make the most usual sorts of Sun-Dials
London: Printed in the Year, 1676. Bound with William Leybourn, The Line of Proportion, Commonly called Gunter's Line, Made Easie. 1677.
[Unknown]
1676
U (Stack)Broz, Miroslav; Nosek, Milosz, Trebichavsky, Jan; Pechova, Drahomira
Slunecni hodiny i na pevnych stanovistich : Cechy, Morava, Slezsko a Slovensko
Praha : Academia, 2004. Part of donation from Christopher Daniel, July 2013.
[2014-140/14]
2004
U (Stack)Bruhl, Count de
On the Investigation of Astronomical Circles
London, 1794. Bound with: A register of one of Mr Mudges Time-keepers and a Catalogue of Instruments, W & S Jones. Transferred from the Department of Astrophysics (University Observatory Collection)
[1968-160]
1794
U (Stack)Buchanan, George
Tables for Converting the Weights and Measures hitherto in use in Great Britain into those of the Imperial Standards; also, for converting the money rates of each weight and measure
Adapted not only for general conversions, but for the Local Measures in each county of Scotland. With a General View of the New System of Weights and Measures, abstracts of the Jury Verdicts on the Weights and Measures of each County in Scotland, etc. etc.; Second Edition with Additional Tables. Edinburgh: Bell & Bradfute, Bank Street. 1843.
[Unknown]
1843
U (Stack)Buchner, Edmund
Die Sonnenuhr des Augustus
Nachdruck aus RM 1976 und 1980 und Nachtrag uber die Ausgrabung 1980/1981; Kulturgeschichte der Antiken Welt [series]; Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1982.
[1986-59]
1982
U (Stack)Bullet, P.
Traite de L'Usage du Pantometre, Instrument Geometrique, Propre a prendre toutes fortes d'Angles Mezurer les Distances accessibles & inaccessibles, Arpenter & Diviser toutes fortes de Figures, etc.
Nouvellement invente par le Sr. Bullet, Architecte & Ingenieur du roi, & de la ville. Paris. Chez Andre Pralard, rue Saint Jacques, a l'Occasion. 1675. Avec Privilege du Roi.
[Unknown]
1675
U (Stack)Bureau des Longitudes
Annuaire pour l'an 1841, presente au Roi, par ...
Prix: 1 Franc. Paris, Bachelier, Imprimeur-libraire du Bureau des Longitudes et de l'Ecole Polytechnique, Quai des Augustins, no. 55. 1840. 12mo (halved). On permanent loan from University College, Oxford (R.14.10)
[1962-65/ ]
1840
U (Stack)Burn, Col.
A Naval and Military Technical Dictionary of the French Language
In two parts: French - English, and English - French; with explanations of the various terms. By Colonel Burn, Royal Artillery. Fifth Edition. London: John Murray, 1870.
[Unknown]
1870
U (Stack)Butenas, D. P.; Krylov, Yu. N. ; Savitskii, V. P.
"Dokumental'nye materialy Tsentral'nogo Gosudarstrennego istorii Vil'nyusskoi Observatorii"
in Iz Istorii Estestvoznaniya i Tekhniki Pribaltiki, vol. II. Riga: Akademiya Nauk Latviiskoi, 1970.
[1970-82]
1970
U (Stack)Butler, William
Exercises on the Globes and Maps
interspersed with some Historical, Biographical, Chronological, Mythological, and Miscellaneous Information, on a New Plan: to which are added Questions for Examination: designed for the Use of Young Ladies. By the late ... ; With an Appendix by which the constellations and fixed stars may be easily known. By Thomas Bourn. The Sixteenth Edition. (1855). London: Sold by Simpkin, Marshall & Co. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
1855
U (Stack)Camp, K. J. van
"De redding van een verzamling 19e-eeuwse fysische instrumenten in de huidige crisistijd"
in Marian Fournier & Bert Theunissen (eds.), Het Instrument in de Wetenschap (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1988), pp. 283-288.
[1989-150]
1988
U (Stack)Cantu, M. C. (Maria Celeste) ; Righini Bonelli, Maria Luisa
Gli strumenti antichi al museo di storia della scienza di Firenze
[Firenze] : Arnaud, [1973]. Millburn bequest. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2007-243]
1973
U (Stack)Capello, Joao Carlos de Brito
Instruccoes Meteorologicas
Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 1890.
[1967-248]
1890
U (Stack)Castlemaine, Earl of
The English Globe Being a Stabil and Immobil one, performing what the Ordinary Globes do, and much more
Invented and described by the Right Honourable, the Earl of Castlemaine. And now publish't by Joseph Moxon, Member of the Royal Society, and Hydrographer to his most Excellent Majesty. London. Printed for Joseph Moxon, at the Sign of Atlas on Ludgate Hill. 1679. 4to. On permanent loan from University College, Oxford (R.143; D.5.47)
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1679
U (Stack)Cenakal, V. L. [Chenakal, V. L.]
"Starinn'ie Solnecn'ie Casy v Latvii"
in Iz Istorii Estestvoznanija i Tehniki Pribaltiki, Tom II (VIII), 1970, pp. 25-36. (Sundials).
[1970-82]
1970
U (Stack)Cenakal, V. L. [Chenakal, V. L.]
"'Centuria Astronomica' Vil'njusskogo Astronoma Al'berta D'iblinskogo i ee Russkij Perevod"
in Iz Istorii Estestvoznanija i Tehniki Pribaltiki, Tom II (VIII), 1970, pp. 5-13.
[1970-82]
1970
U (Stack)Cenerus, Angelo Maria
L'uso dello strumento Geometrico detto la Tavoletta Pretoriana proposto, ed ampliato. Opera postuma ... in cui s'insegna il modo di misurare con questo Strumento Linee, Angoli, e Piani: e di piu la maniera di renderlo idoneo, e di usarlo nelle misure dell' Altimetria; ...
Seconda Edizione. In Bologna nella Stamperia di Lelio dalla Volpe. 1749. 4to. See also Scheiner, C. Formerly the property of the Marchionis Salsae
[Unknown]
1749
U (Stack)Chaldecott, J. A.
The King George III Collection of Scientific Instruments: a brief outline of the history of the collection together with notes on personalities involved and points of interest in connection with objects shown in a special exhibition held in the Science Museum during 1949
Ministry of Education, Science Museum. London: HMSO., 1949. Shelved under Science Museum.
[Unknown]
1949
U (Stack)Chaldecott, J. A.
Handbook of the Collection Relating to Heat and Cold: Part II Catalogue of Exhibits with Descriptive Notes
Ministry of Education, Science Museum. London: HMSO., 1954. Shelved under Science Museum.
[Unknown]
1954
U (Stack)Chaldecott, J. A.
Handbook of the Collection Illustrating Temperature Measurement and Control: Part II Catalogue of Exhibits with Descriptive Notes
Ministry of Education, Science Museum. London: HMSO., 1955. Shelved under Science Museum.
[Unknown]
1955
U (Stack)Chichester, Francis
Sun Compass
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1944
[1964-1]
1944
U (Stack)Chilton, D.
Navigation Today
A Special Exhibition held at the Science Museum, London, from April - September, 1953. Ministry of Education, Science Museum. London: HMSO., 1953. Shelved under Science Museum.
[Unknown]
1953
U (Stack)Cittert-Eymers, J. G. van
Zonnewijzers aan en bij gebouwen in Nederland
Zutphen, 1972. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1972-239]
1972
U (Stack)Cittert-Eymers, J. G. van; Hagen, M. J.
Zonnewijzers aan en bij Gebouwen in Nederland en enige Astronomische (Toren) Uurwerken
Zutphen: De Walberg Pers, 1984; Presented by Andrew R. Somerville Esq. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1984-323]
1984
U (Stack)Claridge, John
The Country Calendar, or The Shepherd of Banbury's Observations. (mainly meteorological)
Lacks titlepage. Bound with and filed under Benjamin Martin, Air-Pump, and other works.
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
U (Stack)Clark, Latimer
A treatise on the transit instrument as applied to the determination of time
London : Latimer Clark, 1882. Bound with Clark's patent improved transit instruments for obtaining true time : Description, price lists and testimonials, A. J. Frost, London. Purchased from Rogers Turner Books, 22 May 2013.
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1882
U (Stack)Clarke, A. R.
Geodesy
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1880. University Observatory Collection
[1968-259]
1880
U (Stack)Clavius, Christophorus
In Sphaeram Ioannis de Sacro Bosco Commentarius
Venice, 1601.
[1959-86]
1601
U (Stack)Clercq, Peter de
"In de Schaduw van 's Gravesande. Het Leids Physisch Kabinet in de Tweede Helft van de 18e Eeuw"
in Marian Fournier & Bert Theunissen (eds.), Het Instrument in de Wetenschap (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1988), pp. 149-173.
[1989-150]
1988
U (Stack)Clercq, Peter de
Review
of Anthony Turner, Early Scientific Instruments: Europe 1400-1800 (London, 1987); in Marian Fournier & Bert Theunissen (eds.), Het Instrument in de Wetenschap (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1988), pp. 289-293.
[1989-150]
1988
U (Stack)Clifford, M.
Notes upon Mr. Dryden's Poems in Four Letters
By M. Clifford, late Master of the Charter-House, London. To which are annexed some Reflections upon the Hind and Panther. By another Hand. London Printed in the Year. 1687. 4to. Bound with Robert Hooke, A Description of Helioscopes.
[Unknown]
1687
U (Stack)Clifford, M.
Notes upon Mr. Dryden's Poems in Four Letters
To which are annexed some Reflections upon the Hind and Panther. By another hand. London: Printed in the year, 1687. Bound with and shelved under Hooke, A Description of Helioscopes. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6]
1687
U (Stack)Close, C. F.
Text Book of Topographical and Geographical Surveying
London: H. M. S. O., 1905.
[1971-24]
1905
U (Stack)Close, C. F.; H. St. J. L. Winterbotham (eds.)
Text Book of Topographical and Geographical Surveying
(3rd edition); London: HMSO., 1925.
[1971-25]
1925
U (Stack)Cluttons
Cluttons 1765-1965
[London: Cluttons, 1965]. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1984-352]
1965?
U (Stack)Coffano, A. (ed.)
Dal Laboratorio di Galileo Ferraris
[Torino?]: [s.n.], [1986]. Presented by Professor Gerard Turner. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2005-158]
1986
U (Stack)Coggeshall, Henry (& Ham, John)
The Art of Practical Measuring, by the Sliding Rule: Shewing how to measure Round, Square, or other Timber, Stone, Board, Glass, Paving, Painting, and Wainscot. Also Gauging; with Instructions in Decimals, Mr Townley's Method of the Logarithms, and the Use of the Diagonal Scale applied to Gunter's Chain
By Henry Coggeshall, Gent. Whereto is added, in a Short Method, The Use of Scammozzi's Lines for finding the Lengths and Angles of Hips, Rafters, etc. at any Pitch, in Square, Bevelling, or Tapering Frames. By John Ham. (Preface by Ham); Seventh edition. London: for Edward & Charles Dilly, 1767.
[1981-51]
1767
U (Stack)Cohen, John
Human Robots in Myth and Science
London: Allen and Unwin, 1966.
[1968-523]
1966
U (Stack)Cole, Benjamin
The Description and Use of a New Quadrant, for Finding the Latitude at Sea
invented and made, by Benjamin Cole, Mathematical and Optical Instrument-Maker, at the Orrery in Fleet-Street, London; late the Shop of Mr. Thomas Wright, Instrument-Maker to his Majesty. The Second Edition. With an Appendix, shewing some useful Improvements on Cole's Quadrant. Particularly Godfrey's Horizon Vane improv'd. Which furnishes the Mariner with the Means of taking an Observation easily in boisterous Weather. To which are added ... . London: Printed by John Hart, 1749. 8vo. [See also Hadley, John]. R. S. Clay's copy (purchase)
[1949- ]
1749
U (Stack)Collina, D. Abondia
Considerazione istoriche di D. Abondio Collina sopra l'origine della bussola nautica nell'Europa, e nell'Asia
Faenza, 1748.
[1965-228]
1748
U (Stack)Collinder, Per
A History of Marine Navigation
Translated from the Swedish by Maurice Michael. London: B.T. Batsford, Autumn 1954. Presentation copy from the author to Carl Felkel
[1983-125]
1954
U (Stack)Collins, John
The Description and Use of Four several Quadrants, Two Great Ones, and Two Small Ones. With the Use of a Diagonal-Scale and Semicircle. Each of them accommodated with Lines and Circles, for the Resolving of Propositions Instrumentally, In Chronology, Astronomy, Altimetria, Longimetria, Navigation, Dialling
Invented and Written by the Ingenious Mr. Collins, and Engrav'd by the Curious Hand of Mr. Henry Sutton; with Additions, not in the former Treatise, by John Good. [A new edition of Collins's 1658/9 work, edited by Good]. London: Printed for W. and J. Mount and T. Page, in Postern-Row on Tower-Hill. 1750. 4to. R. S. Clay's copy (purchase)
[1949- ]
1750
U (Stack)Colson, Nathaniel
The Mariner's New Calendar
Containing The Principles of Arithmetic and Practical Geometry; with the Extraction of the Square and Cube Roots: Also Rules for finding the Prime, Epact, Moon's Age, Time of High-Water, with Tables for the same. Together with Exact Tables of the Sun's Place, Declination, and Right-Ascension: Of the Right Ascension and Declination of the Principal Fixed Stars: Of the Latitude and Longitude of Places: A large Table of Difference of Latitude and Departure, for the exact Working a Traverse. Also The Description and Use of the Sea-Quadrant, Fore-Staff and Nocturnal: Necessary Problems in Plane-Sailing and Astronomy, wrought by the Logarithms, and by Gunter's Scale: A Tide Table: The Courses and Distances on the Coast of Great Britain, Ireland, France, etc. And the Soundings at coming into the Channel: With Directions for sailing into some Principal Harbours. By Nathaniel Colson, Student in the Mathematics. The whole revis'd, and adjusted to the New Stile, By William Mountaine, F.R.S.; London: Printed for W. and J. Mount, T. Page & Son, on Tower-Hill, 1757. Where you may have all Sorts of Mathematical Books. University Observatory Collection.
[1982-93]
1757
U (Stack)Connette, Michel
La Geometrie, reduite en une facile et briefue practique par deux excellens instrumens, dont l'un is le Pantometre ou Compas de Proportion ... L'Usage du Compass a huict poinctes invente par Fabrice Mordente
Paris: Charles Hupleau, 1626.
[1924-0]
1626
U (Stack)Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers
Catalogue du Musee
Section H. Geodesie leve des Plans Photogrammetrie. Paris: Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers, 1953. Presented by M. Maurice Daumas Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1957-80/1]
1953
U (Stack)Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers
Catalogue du Musee
Section K. Poids et Mesures Metrologie. Paris: Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers, 1941. Presented by M. Maurice Daumas Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1957-80/1{?}]
1941
U (Stack)Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers
Catalogue Officiel des Collections du Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers: Troisieme Fascicule: Geometrie -- Geodesie -- Cosmographie -- Astronomie -- Science Nautique -- Chronometrie -- Instruments de Calcul -- Poids et Mesures
Paris: E. Bernard, 1906. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[Unknown]
1906
U (Stack)Cooke, Conrad William
Automata Old and New
(Delivered at a Meeting of the Sette, held at Limmer's Hotel, on Friday, 6/xi/1891). Imprinted at the Chiswick Press, London. 1893. No. XXIX in the series of Privately Printed Opuscula, issued to Members of the Sette of Odd Volumes; no. 99 in a limited edition of 255 copies. Formerly the property of R. T. Gunther (*)
[?1940-6/ ]
1893
U (Stack)Cooke, Conrad William
Automata Old and New
by Conrad William Cooke, M. Inst. E.E. Mechanick to the Sette of Odd Volumes. Delivered at a Meeting of the Sette held at Limmer's Hotel, on Friday, November 6th, 1891. Imprinted at the Chiswick Press, London. 1893. Privately Printed Opuscula, issued to Members of the Sette of Odd Volumes (no. XXIX in the series). Edition of 255 copies, this being no. 147. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
1893
U (Stack)Cooke, Troughton & Simms ; Taylor, E. Wilfred ; Wilson, James Simms, 1893-1976 ; Scott Maxwell, P. D.
At the sign of the orrery : the origins of the firm of Cooke, Troughton & Simms, Ltd.
"from material collected by E. Wilfred Taylor and J. Simms Wilson ; and brought up to date by P.D. Scott Maxwell." [York : Cooke, Troughton & Simms, 1960?]. Millburn bequest. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2007-270]
1960?
U (Stack)Costa, A. Fontoura da (Abel Fontoura), 1869-1940
A Marinharia Dos Descobrimentos
Lisbon: Imprensa da Armada, 1933. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[Unknown]
1933
U (Stack)Coulson, S.
Coulson's Treatise on his newly-invented Engineers' and Mechanics' Slide Rule; with a description of the lines upon that instrument, and its application ...
With an Appendix ... 1842. Printed for the Author by W. Braithwaite, Stokesley. Inscribed "Presented by the Author to Messrs. Dring and Fage for the very superior manner in which they have executed the Slide Rule connected herewith. Redcar 26th Novr 1842." Gabb Bequest, 1948
[1949- ]
1842
U (Stack)Cox, Ian H. (Ian Herbert), 1910-
The South Bank Exhibition : a guide to the story it tells
[London] : H.M. Stationery Office, [1951] Millburn bequest.
[2007-136]
1951
U (Stack)Crawforth, Michael A.
Sovereign Balances: 1 - Standard Rockers
2nd edition, revised; Oxford: Published by the Author, 1984. Presented by the author Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1985-213]
1984
U (Stack)Crawforth, Michael A.
Sovereign Balances: 1-Standard Rockers
England [sic]: [?the author], 1983. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1983-183]
1983
U (Stack)Cressy, Edward
All About Engines
With a coloured frontispiece, and 182 half-tone illustrations and diagrams. London, New York, Toronto, & Melbourne: Cassell & Company, Ltd., n.d. [c.1926]. Formerly the property of the Grafton House Library; presented to them by T. W. G. Ferrier, October 1926.
[Unknown]
1926
U (Stack)Crocker, A.
The Elements of Land Surveying, designed principally for the use of Schools and Students
Fourth edition. London: Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, n.d. [? 1820s]. (Dedication dated at Frome, September 1817). Ownership signature of Abraham Riley, 1874
[1991-117]
182-?
U (Stack)Daniel, Christopher St. J. H.
Sundials
Princes Risborough, Aylesbury: Shire Publications, 1986. Shire Album 176. Presented by the publisher
[1986-108]
1986
U (Stack)Daumas, Maurice.
Les instruments scientifiques aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siecles
(Publication of the Bibliotheque de Philosophie Contemporaine [Philosophie des sciences - edited by Gaston Bachelard] Ouvrage publie avec le concours du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique). Presses Universitaires de France. 1953.
[1953- ]
1953
U (Stack)De Morgan, Augustus, 1806-1871
The globes, celestial and terrestrial
London : published by Malby and Co., 1845. Millburn bequest.
[2007-112]
1845
U (Stack)Deiman, J. C.
"Het Instrumentarium van de Utrechtse Sterrenwacht"
in Marian Fournier & Bert Theunissen (eds.), Het Instrument in de Wetenschap (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1988), pp. 174-189.
[1989-150]
1988
U (Stack)Dekker, Elly ; Kunitzsch, Paul
An early Islamic tradition in globe making
Offprint from : Zeitschrift fur Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften, Sonderdruck, Bd. 18. 2008/2009. Presented by Elly Decker.
2009
U (Stack)Delamain [Delamaine, Richard]
The making, description, and use of a small portable Instrument for the pocket (or according to any Magnitude) in forme of a mixt Trapezia thus [symbol] Called a Horizontall Quadrant.
Composed and produced soly for the benefit, & use of such as are studious of Mathematicall Practice. Written and delivered by Delamain Student, and Teacher of the Mathematicks. London printed for William Leake, and are to be sold at the Crowne in Fleetestreete betweene the two Temple gates. n.d. [identical to 1637 edition, but without the dated plate]. Date at end of work states 163L. [probably 1632]. Philip Earl Stanhope bookplate; Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
[n.d.]
U (Stack)Delamarche, Charles Francois, 1740-1817
Les usages de la sphere, et des globes celeste et terrestre: precedes d'un abrege sur les differens systemes du monde; suivis de la description et des usages de la geo-cyclique, du denombrement des constellations anciennes et modernes, et de la description de la sphere mouvante, d'apres le systeme de Copernic
4. ed. Paris: chez F.x Delemarche et Ch.les Dien, 1821.
[2005-186]
1821
U (Stack)Dent, Edward J.
A description of the Dipleidoscope, or double-reflecting meridian and altitude instrument by Edward J. Dent with plain instructions for the method of using it in the correction of time-keepers
4th edition. London: 1845. (Hard covers). {...}
[1970-65]
1845
U (Stack)Deutsches Museum
Deutsches Museum: Guide through the Collections
Munich: Verlag C. H. Beck, 1988. Presented by Dr Gudrun Wolfschmidt
[1994-21]
1988
U (Stack)Dickinson, H. W.
The Garret Workshop of James Watt
Ministry of Education, Science Museum. Technical Pamphlet no. 1. Reprint. (First edition, 1929.) London: HMSO., 1949. Shelved under Science Museum.
[Unknown]
1949
U (Stack)Diels, Hermann
Antike Technik
- sieben vortrage von ... Zweite, erweiterte auflage. Mit 78 abbildungen, 18 tafeln und 1 titelbild. B. G. Teubner, Leipzig und Berlin. 1920. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1963-24]
1920
U (Stack)Dowling, Charles Hutton
A Series of Metric Tables, in which British Standard Measures and Weights are compared with those of the Metric System at present in use on the Continent
Second Edition. London: Lockwood & Co., 1872. Royal Microscopical Society Collection
[1978-443]
1872
U (Stack)Drinkwater, Peter I.
The Art of Sundial Construction
Second edition. With an Appendix on Declining/Reclining and Declining/Inclining Dials. Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire: Published by P. Drinkwater, 1987. Presented by the author
[1987-200]
1987
U (Stack)Drinkwater, Peter I.
The Art of Sundial Construction
Shipston-on-Stour: Published by P. Drinkwater, 1985. Presented by the author
[1985-107]
1985
U (Stack)Drinkwater, Peter I.
The Art of Sundial Construction
Third edition. Shipston-on-Stour: P. Drinkwater, 1993. Presented by the author Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1993-103]
1993
U (Stack)Drinkwater, Peter I.
The Art of Sundial Construction
Fourth edition. Shipston-on-Stour : Published by P. Drinkwater, 1996. Part of Peter Drinkwater bequest, April 2014.
[2014-160-3]
1996
U (Stack)Dryden, John
Absalom and Achitophel. A Poem
Third Edition, 1682. [And] The Hind and the Panther Transvers'd to the Story of the Country Mouse and the City-Mouse. Davis. 1687. [And] The Rehearsal, as it is now Acted at the Theatre-Royal. Fifth Edition, Amended. Thomas Dring. 1687. 4to. Bound with Robert Hooke, A Description of Helioscopes.
[Unknown]
1682
U (Stack)Dryden, John
Absalom and Achitophel. A Poem
London: Printed for J.T. and are to be sold by W. Davis in Amen-Corner, 1682. Bound with and shelved under Hooke, A Description of Helioscopes. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6]
1682
U (Stack)Elliott Bros
The Anschutz gyro-compass: History and description: theory; practical use
London: Elliott Bros., 1910.
[1970-68]
1910
U (Stack)Etten, H. Van
Recreation mathematicque composee de plusieurs problemes plaisants et facetieux
H. Van Etten [ R. P. Jean Levrechon?], Pont-a-Mousson, 1626, reprinted in facsimile by Berger-Levrault, n.d.. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1969-78]
[n.d.]
U (Stack)Exposition Internationale de la Technique de l'eau. - Liege 1939
Historique de la Construction Navale et de la Navigation
(Premieres sections des classes 18et19) Catalogue. H. Vaillant-Carmanne, S. A. Liege. 1939. Gunther Loan Collection Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1940-6/ ]
1939
U (Stack)Fale, Thomas
Horologiographia. The Art of Dialling: Teaching an Easie and perfect way to make all kinds of Dials upon any plaine plot, howsoever placed. With the drawing of the twelve Signes, and houres unequall in them all
Whereunto is annexed the making and use of other Dials and Instruments, whereby the houre of the day and night is knowne: ... At London Imprinted by Felix Kyngston, dwelling in Paternost-Row. 1627. 4to. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
1627
U (Stack)Ferguson, James
A Dissertation upon the Phaenomena of the Harvest Moon. Also, The Description and Use of a new Four-Wheel'd Orrery, and An Essay upon the Moon's turning round her own Axis
London: Printed for the Author, and sold by J. Nourse at the Lamb facing Katherine-street, and by S. Paterson at Shakespear's Head opposite to Durham-Yard, Booksellers; both in the Strand, 1747. Gunther Loan Collection.
[1940-6/ ]
1747
U (Stack)Ferguson, James, 1710-1776
The astronomical clock
[S.l. : Geoffrey H. Bell, 1983?]. Facsimile reprint of the chapter on 'The astronomical clock' from the first edition of James Ferguson's 'Select mechanical exercises' of 1773. With it, as a preface, is published an abridged version of Ferguson's autobiography. Preface dated 1983. Millburn bequest. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
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1983?
U (Stack)Ferguson, James, 1710-1776
The mechanical paradox
[S.l. : Geoffrey H. Bell, 1978?]. "This is a facsimile reprint of the chapter on 'The mechanical paradox' from the first edition of James Ferguson's 'Select mechanical exercises' of 1773. With it, as a preface, is published for the first time an abridged version of Ferguson's autobiography". Preface dated 1978. Millburn bequest. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2007-251]
1978?
U (Stack)Ferguson, James, 1710-1776
Select mechanical exercises : shewing how to construct different clocks, orreries, and sun-dials, on plain and easy principles
London : printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1773. Millburn bequest.
[2007-318]
1773
U (Stack)Ferguson, James, 1710-1776
Tables and tracts : relative to several arts and sciences
London : printed for A. Millar and T. Cadell, in The Strand, 1767. Millburn bequest.
[2007-365]
1767
U (Stack)Ferguson, James, 1710-1776
A dissertation upon the phaenomena of the harvest moon
London : printed for the author, and sold by J. Nourse at the Lamb facing Katherine-street, and by S. Paterson, at Shakespear's Head opposite to Durham-Yard, booksellers; both in the Strand, 1747. 2 copies. Millburn bequest.
[2007-369] and [2007-370]
1747
U (Stack)Festival of Britain (1951)
Exhibition of Science, South Kensington : a guide to the story it tells
[London] : H.M.S.O., [1951?]. Millburn bequest.
[2007-132]
1951?
U (Stack)Festival of Britain (1951) ; Taylor, Basil
The Festival of Britain : 1951
[London : H.M.S.O. on behalf of the Festival of Britain, 1951?]. "The official book of the Festival of Britain"--back cover. Written by Basil Taylor. Millburn bequest.
[2007-131]
1951?
U (Stack)Ffrench, Yvonne
The Great Exhibition : 1851
London : Harvill Press, [1950]. Millburn bequest.
[2007-106]
1950
U (Stack)Finaeus (Fineo), O.
Opere di Orontio Fineo del Delfinato
divise in cinque Parti; Arimetica, Geometria, Cosmografia, Oriuoli, tradotte da Cosimo Bartoli, Gentilhuomo, & Academico Fiorentino: et gli Specchi, tradotti dal Caualier Ercole Bottrigaro, Gentilhuomo Bolognese. Nuovamente poste in luce: con Privilegio. In Venetia, Presso Francesco Franceschi Senese, 1587. 4to. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
1587
U (Stack)Fitzroy, Rear-Admiral
Barometer Manual
Board of Trade. Third edition. London: printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, ... for Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1860.
[Unknown]
1860
U (Stack)Fletcher, Banister
Quantities
A text-Book in Tabulated Form for the use of Architects, Surveyors, & Builders in which is set forth the methods of measuring builders' work. Seventh Edition, revised and enlarged by H. P. Fletcher. London: B. T. Batsford, 1903.
[1973-114]
1903
U (Stack)Folkes, [Martin]
"An Account of Mr. Leeuwenhoek's Microscopes, by Mr. Folkes, V.P. No 380. p. 446"
extract from Eames & Martyn, The Philosophical Transactions ... Abridged, vol. VI, 1734, pp. 129-133 (article IV). (Extract consists of articles IV-VIII, pp. 129-146, containing chiefly John Hadley, "An Account of a Reflecting Telescope ..." and "The Description of an Instrument for taking Angles, by Reflections ...").
[Unknown]
1734
U (Stack)Forward, E. A.
Handbook of the Collections Illustrating Land Transport: II. Mechanical Road Vehicles: Part II - Descriptive Catalogue
Science Museum, South Kensington. London: HMSO., 1936. Shelved under Science Museum. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[Unknown]
1936
U (Stack)Foster, Samuel
"The Description and Use of another Sector with more lines, differing from that of Mr. Gunter, both in form and manner of Working. As also, of a Quadrant fitted with new Lines serving the former Uses, and many other, more accurately. Both invented and written by Mr. Sam. Foster sometime Professour of Astronomy in Gresham-Colledge London: Now published from his Manuscripts: The whole Work examined, and in many places enlarged, by W. L. [eybourn]"
in The Works of Edmund Gunter; Printed by the latter in 1661.
[Unknown]
1661
U (Stack)Fournier, Marian
"Instrumentgerichte Wetenschapsgeschiedenis in de Praktijk. Een Zonnemicroscoop van Kleman"
in Marian Fournier & Bert Theunissen (eds.), Het Instrument in de Wetenschap (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1988), pp. 131-148.
[1989-150]
1988
U (Stack)Fournier, Marian; Theunissen, Bert (eds.)
Het Instrument in de Wetenschap: Bijdragen tot de Instrumentgerichte Wetenschapsgeschiedenis
Themanummer van het Tijdschrift voor de Geschiedenis der Geneeskunde, Natuurwetenschappen, Wiskunde en Techniek, jrg. 10 nr. 4, 1987. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1988. (Articles by Fournier, de Clercq, Deiman, Hackmann, van Zuylen, Mulder, Grooss, Morzer Bruyns, van Camp). Presented by Dr W. D. Hackmann Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1989-150]
1987
U (Stack)Friedrich, Rainer
Sammlung zur Laborgeraetetechnik. Literaturverzeichniss Nr. 5, 1. Auflage : 150 Stueck
Mahlow, [Germany], 1999. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
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1999
U (Stack)Frome, Captain
Outline of the Method of Conducting a Trigonometrical Survey, for the formation of Geographical and Topographical Maps and Plans; Military Reconnaissance, Levelling, etc.; with the most useful problems in Geodesy and Practical Astronomy, and formulae and tables for facilitating their calculation
Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged, with an Additional Chapter upon Colonial Surveying, ... John Weale, 59, High Holborn, London. 1850.
[Unknown]
1850
U (Stack)Garbagna, Cristina
Sfere del cielo, sfere della terra : globi celesti e terrestri dal XVI al XX secolo
Milano : Electa, c2007. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2014-2]
2007
U (Stack)Garcia Franco, Salvador
"Los cuadrantes astronomicos del medievo"
in Revista general de marina, vol. CXXVIII, May 1945, pp. 673-678.
[1962-55]
1945
U (Stack)Garcia Franco, Salvador
Instrumentos Nauticos en el Museo Naval
Instituto Historico de Marina; Madrid 1959
[1964-62]
1959
U (Stack)Garcia Franco, Salvador
"Un planisferio de Diego Ribero"
in Revista general de marina, vol. CXXIV, May 1943, pp. 611-621.
[1962-54]
1943
U (Stack)Gardner, J. Starkie
Ironwork: Part I. From the Earliest Times to the End of the Mediaeval Period
2nd ed. London: Printed for His Majesty's Stationery Office by Wyman and Sons, 1907. From the library of Dr C. F. C. Beeson; presented by Mrs M. Beeson. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1990-151/1]
1907
U (Stack)Gardner, J. Starkie
Ironwork: Part II Being a Continuation of the First Handbook, and Comprising from the Close of the Mediaeval Period to the End of the Eighteenth Century, Excluding English Work
London: Published for the Committee of Council on Education, by Chapman and Hall, 1896. From the library of Dr C. F. C. Beeson; presented by Mrs M. Beeson.
[1990-151/2]
1896
U (Stack)Garrigos i Oltra, Lluis, 1951- ; Millan-Verdu, Carles; Blanes Nadal, Georgina
El Color Liquido: Instrumentos y Utiles de la Colorimetria en el Siglo XIX
Alicante: Editorial Agua Clara, 2006. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2006-88]
2006
U (Stack)Gatty, Mrs. Alfred
The Book of Sun-Dials
Collected by Mrs. ... , author of "Parables from Nature" etc. New and Enlarged Edition. (1889); Third and Enlarged Edition. (1890); Edited by H. K. F. Gatty (1889 edition) H. K. F. Eden (1890 edition) and Eleanor Lloyd, with an Appendix on the Construction of Dials by W. Richardson. George Bell and Sons, York Street, London. 1889/90.
[Unknown]
1890
U (Stack)Gelatt, Roland
The Fabulous Phonograph: The Story of the Gramophone from Tin Foil to High Fidelity
London: Cassell & Company, 1956.
[1986-158]
1956
U (Stack)Gersaint, E. F.
Catalogue raisonne d'une collection considerable de diverses Curiosites en tous Genres, contenues dans les Cabinets de feu Monsieur Bonnier de la Mosson, Bailly & Capitaine des Chasses de la Varenne des Thuilleries & ancien Colonel du Regiment Dauphin
Paris: Jaques Barois et Pierre-Guillaume Simon, 1744. (Provenance unknown)
[Unknown]
1744
U (Stack)Gibbs-Smith, Charles Harvard, 1909-1981 ; Victoria and Albert Museum
The Great Exhibition of 1851 : a commemorative album
London : H.M.S.O., 1950. Millburn bequest.
[2007-133]
1950
U (Stack)Gilbert, John
"Mathematical, Optical, and Philosophical, Instruments, made by John Gilbert, at the Mariner, in Postern-Row, Tower-Hill, London"
catalogue of 6 pp. appended to William Leybourn, The Description of an Entertaining and Useful Instrument, called Gunter's Quadrant: ... Fourth edition. London: for John Gilbert, 1771.
[1981-26]
1771
U (Stack)Gillett, W.
The Phonograph, and how to construct it. With a Chapter on Sound
With engravings and full working drawings. London: E. & F. N. Spon, 125, Strand. 1892. New York: Spon & Chamberlain, 12, Cortlandt St. Gabb Bequest, 1948
[1949- ]
1892
U (Stack)Gires, Francis
L'Empire de la physique : cabinet de physique du lycee Guez de Balzac d'Angouleme
Niort : ASEISTE, 2006. Presented by the author.
[2014-19]
2006
U (Stack)Gires, Francis
Physique imperiale : cabinet de physique du Lycee Imperial de Perigueux
Niort : ASEISTE, [2005?] Presented by the author. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2014-18]
2005?
U (Stack)Glory, Abbe Andre; Ungerer, Theodore
L'Adolescent au cadran solaire de la Cathedrale de Strasbourg : etude sur la gnomonique du haut Moyen age
Paris : Archives Alsaciennes d'histoire de l'art librarie Istra, 1932. Bound with : Glory, Abbe Andre; Ungerer, Theodore, 'L'astrologique au Cadran solaire de la cathedrale de Strasbourg : etude sur la gnomonique au XVe siecle', Istra, 1933. Part of donation from Christopher Daniel, July 2013. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
2014-140/6
1932/1933
U (Stack)Good, John
The Art of Shadows: or, Universal Dialling; with Tables exactly calculated for the lat. Of 51 deg. 30 min. viz London
Teaching any person, tho' of an ordinary capacity, and unlearned in the Mathematics to draw a true Sun-dial upon any given plan, however situated, in respect of declination and reclination and a table shewing the distance of each hour-line from the meridian, upon all horizontal dials. London, 1721. R.T Gunther's Copy.
[Unknown]
1721
U (Stack)Goto, Akio
Sundials in the world
Mostly in Japanese. Nara, Japan : Toyosumi Publishing, 1985. Part of donation from Christopher Daniel, July 2013. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2014-140/17]
1985
U (Stack)Goubert, ingenieur
Description et usage des barometres, thermometres et autres instrumens meteorologiques
Seconde edition, revue & considerablement augmentee, avec un tableau de comparaison des thermometres. A Dijon : Chez J.B. Capel, imprimeur-libraire ; Et se vend a Paris : Chez Alexandre Jombert jeune ..., 1785.
[2008-8]
1785
U (Stack)Goubert, ingenieur
Recherches sur les differences qui existent entre les thermometres de mercure et ceux d'esprit-de-vin, et sur les moyens d'y remedier; avec les proprietes de ces deux fluides, relativement a la construction des thermometres
A Paris : chez Merigot le jeune..., 1789. Bound with "Description et usage des barometres" / Goubert.
[2008-8]
1789
U (Stack)Govind, Vijai; Sen, S. N.
'A Bibliography of the Scientific Instruments of Historical Importance in India'
National Commission for the Compilation of the History of Sciences in India. Photocopy of annotated typescript. [NB: This is an inventory or catalogue, not a bibliography].
[1988-49]
[n.d.]
U (Stack)Graham, J. T.
Scales and Balances: A Guide to Collecting
Aylesbury: Shire Publications, 1981.
[1982-9]
1981
U (Stack)Graham, J. T.
Weights and Measures: A Guide to Collecting
Princes Risborough: Shire Publications, 1979.
[1980-119]
1979
U (Stack)Great Exhibition of 1851
Lectures on the Results of the Great Exhibition of 1851
Delivered before the Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, at the suggestion of H. R. H. Prince Albert, President of the Society. David Bogue, 86 Fleet Street, London. 1852. Formerly the property of the Radcliffe Observatory
[Unknown]
1852
U (Stack)Greaves, John
The Origine and Antiquity of our English Weights and Measures Discover'd
By their near Agreement with such Standards that are now found in one of the Egyptian Pyramides. Together, with the Explanation of divers Lines therein heretofore measur'd. As also, some Conjectures concerning the time when these Pyramides were built; in Answer to certain Letters, etc. London: Printed for G. Sawbridge at the Three Flower-de-Luces in Little Britain, 1706. 8vo.
[Unknown]
1706
U (Stack)Gregory, David
A Treatise of Practical Geometry
In three parts. By the late Dr ... [Translated from the Latin. With Additions.] The Fifth Edition. (1763). Edinburgh: Printed by Hamilton, Balfour, and Neill. 4to. From the Radcliffe Observatory
[Unknown]
1763
U (Stack)Gregory, John
The Description And Use Of The Terrestrial Globe
By John Gregorie, Master of Arts of Christ-Church in Oxon. London, Printed by William Du-gard, for Laurence Sadler, and are to bee sold at the Golden-Lion, in Little-Britain. 1649. (Pagination after title runs from p. 257, L12 to p. 330, Vu2. Includes "The Description and Use of Maps and Charts Universal and Particular", pp. 301-330). [Cf. 1663 edition in The Works ..., pp. 253-298]. University Observatory Collection
[1982-101]
1649
U (Stack)Gregory, John
The Description and Use of the Terrestrial Globe
London, Printed by J. Grismond, for Laurence Sadler, and are to be sold at the Golden Lion in Little-Britain. 1663. (pp. 253-298 of Gregory's "Posthuma"). See "The Works" of ... Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
1663
U (Stack)Gregory, John
The Works of the Reverend and Learned Mr John Gregory, Master of Arts of Christ's-Church Oxon
in Two Parts: the First containing Notes and Observations upon several Passages in Scripture; the Second his Posthuma, being divers Learned Tracts ... . London, printed for R. Royston in Ivy-lane, and N. Brooks in Cornhil. 1665. 4to. Includes "The Description and Use of the Terrestrial Globe", pp. 253-298. (NB: biographical notes etc. by John Gurganie included in the "Posthuma" section). Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
1665
U (Stack)Grooss, K. S.
"Cornelis Solingen (1641-1687) en de Techniek van het Trepaneren"
in Marian Fournier & Bert Theunissen (eds.), Het Instrument in de Wetenschap (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1988), pp. 248-262.
[1989-150]
1988
U (Stack)Grotzsch, H.
Die ersten Forschungsergebnisse der Globus-inventarisierung in der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik (Ein Beitrag zur Internationalen Weltinventarisierung durch die UNESCO)
Berlin, 1963. Veroffentlichungen des Staatlichen Mathematisch-Physikalischen Salons ... Dresden ..., vol. 2.
[1963-143]
1963
U (Stack)Grotzsch, H.; Schardin, J.; Bottger, Ch. (eds.)
Vortrage und Abhandlungen des II. Internationalen Symposiums des Coronelli-Weltbundes der Globusfreunde vom 8. bis 10. Oktober 1965 in Dresden
Veroffentlichungen des Staatlichen Mathematisch-Physikalischen Salons, Forschungsstelle, Dresden-Zwinger. Bd. 5. Berlin: V.E.B. Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, 1967. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1967-136]
1967
U (Stack)Guillerme, J.; Sebestik, J.
"Les commencement de la technologie"
in Thales, vol. xii, 1966, pp. 1-72.
[1968-541]
1966
U (Stack)Gunter, Edmund
The Workes of Edmund Gunter, ...
Another copy of the 1662 edition, with the works of Samuel Foster. 4to. From the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford
[Unknown]
1662
U (Stack)Gunter, Edmund
The Workes of Edmund Gunter
Containing the Description and Use of his Sector, Cross-Staffe, Bow, and Quadrant; With a Canon of artificial Sines and Tangents, & Logarithms, and the use thereof in Trigonometry and Fortification. The Fourth Edition. To which is added ... by Sam. Foster. London, Printed by W. L. for Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold at the Marygold in St. Pauls Churchyard. 1662. 4to. On permanent loan from University College, Oxford (R.11.13)
[1962-65/ ]
1662
U (Stack)Gunther, R. T.
The Old Ashmolean and its Historic Scientific Collections
Prepared as an Appendix to Early Science in Oxford vol. XV. Privately Printed. 1939. (Consists chiefly of reprints of Annual Reports of the Museum of the History of Science, 1924-1938). Missing, December 2018.
[Unknown]
1939
U (Stack)Hackmann, W. D.; Turner, A. J. (eds.)
Learning, Language and Invention: Essays Presented to Francis Maddison
Astrolabica No 6. Aldershot & Paris: Variorum & the Societe Internationale de l'Astrolabe, 1994.
[Unknown]
1994
U (Stack)Hackman[n], W. D.
"Instruments and Experiments. The Case of Atmospheric Electricity in Eighteenth-Century Holland"
in Marian Fournier & Bert Theunissen (eds.), Het Instrument in de Wetenschap (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1988), pp. 190-207.
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1988
U (Stack)Hammond, J.; Warner, S.
The Practical Surveyor
London, 1750.
[1966-52]
1750
U (Stack)Hanfstaengl, Eberhard (ed.)
Europaisches Rokoko: Kunst und Kultur des 18. Jahrhunderts. vierte Ausstellung unter den Auspizien des Europarates
15th June - 15th September, 1958. Munchen. Residenz. Verlag Hermann Rinn 1958. (NB: items 1211-1233 are instruments).
[1958-59]
1958
U (Stack)Harris & Mills
A chart of 187 mechanical movements, with description of each
3rd ed. London : Harris & Mills, [1886?]. Millburn bequest.
[2007-242]
1886?
U (Stack)Harris, John 1666?-1719
The Description and Uses of the Celestial and Terrestrial Globes; And of Collins's Pocket Quadrant
The sixth edition. London: Printed for D. Midwinter, 1725.
[Unknown]
1725
U (Stack)Harris, Joseph
The Description and Use Of The Globes, And The Orrery. To which is prefixed, By way of Introduction, a Brief Account of the Solar System
By Joseph Harris, Teacher of the Mathematicks. The Fourth Edition. London: Printed for Thomas Wright, Mathematical Instrument-Maker, at the Orrery near Water Lane; and E. Cushee, Globe-Maker, at the Globe and Sun between St. Dunstan's Church and Chancery-Lane; both in Fleet-street. M.DCCXXXVIII. University Observatory Collection
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1738
U (Stack)Harris, Joseph
The Description and Use of The Globes And The Orrery. To which is prefix'd, By Way of Introduction, A brief Account of the Solar System
By Joseph Harris, Teacher of the Mathematics. The Ninth Edition. London: Printed for B. Cole, at the Orrery, near the Globe Tavern in Fleet-Street, late the Shop of Mr. Thomas Wright, Instrument-Maker to His Majesty; and E. Cushee, near St. Dunstan's Church, Fleet-street. MDCCLXIII. University Observatory Collection
[1982-103]
1763
U (Stack)Harris, Joseph
The Description and Use of the Globes and the Orrery, etc
London, 1757.
[Unknown]
1757
U (Stack)Harris, Joseph, 1704-1764
The description and use of the globes, and the orrery : to which is prefixed, by way of introduction, a brief account of the solar system
The second edition. London : printed for Thomas Wright, mathematical instrument-maker, at the Orrery and Globe near Salisbury-Court; and Richard Cushee, globe-maker, at the Globe and Sun between St. Dunstan's Church and Chancery-Lane; both in Fleet-street, 1732. Millburn bequest.
[2007-319]
1732
U (Stack)Harris, Joseph, 1704-1764
The description and use of the globes and the orrery : to which is prefix'd, by way of introduction, a brief account of the solar system
The fifth edition. London : printed for Thomas Wright and William Wyeth, mathematical instrument-makers, at the Orrery near Water-Lane; and E. Cushee, globe-maker, at the Globe and Sun between St. Dunstan's Church and Chancery-Lane; both in Fleet-Street, 1740. Millburn bequest.
[2007-345]
1740
U (Stack)Haskoll, W. Davis
Land and Marine Surveying in reference to the preparation of plans for Roads and Railways; Canals, Rivers, Towns' Water Supplies; Docks and Harbours with description and use of surveying instruments
Second edition. London: Crosby Lockwood & Co., 1886.
[1980-288]
1886
U (Stack)Hatton, E.
A Mathematical Manual: Or, Delightful Associate
Containing, I. A Description and Use of the Celestial Globe: How to know the Stars in each Constellation, and their Magnitude; also their Latitude, Longitude, Right Ascension, Declination, Semi-diurnal Ark, Rising, Southing, Setting, Altitude, Azimuth, Distances, etc. The Sun's Place, his Rising and Setting, Length of the Day and Night, etc. Also Dialling by this Globe. II. Twelve Problems relating chiefly to the Moon: And a truer Way than has been given to find Easter, etc. The Hour of the Night by the Moon shining on a Sun-Dial, etc. III. A Description and Use of the Terrestrial Globe, as to Climates, Zones, Shadows, Inhabitants, Latitude and Longitude of Places: And a large Table, shewing where all the most remarkable Places in the World may be placed on dials; and the Bearing and Distance of such Places from London. IV. A full Description and Use of all Kinds of Maps: With a copious Table of the Latitude, Longitude, and Situation of the chief Cities on Earth: And many other curious Matters. V. The Original of the Lines in a Sector describ'd; with the full Use of that Instrument in Trigonometry, etc. in an Easy Natural Method. VI. How to make a Line of Numbers, or Logarithms, to any Length, and the full Use in all Parts of Arithmetic. VII. Mysterious Curiosities in Numbers: Or, Numerical Novelties. In Twenty-five Propositions, mostly New, and very Easy and Delightful. VIII. How to take Heights, Depths, and Distances, great or small, by several Ways and Instruments. In Twelve Propositions. The Whole very Useful and Pleasant. Published for the Contemplation and Diversion of Gentlemen, and Others, who are Mathematically inclined. By E. Hatton, Gent. London, Printed for S. Illidge, under Serle's Gate, Lincoln's-Inn New-Square. M.DCC.XXVIII. Includes single leaf at end listing "Books (just Published) Printed for Sam. Illidge".
[1956-11]
1728
U (Stack)Hawkins, G. S.
Stonehenge Decoded
London: Souvenir, 1966.
[1966-164]
1966
U (Stack)Hawney, William
The Doctrine of Plain and Spherical Trigonometry: with its Application and Use in the following parts of Mathematicks; viz. I. Navigation in all its Kinds; ... II. Astronomy; ... III. Projection of the Sphere in Plano. IV. Geography. V. Fortification. VI. Mensuration of Heights and Distances ... VII. Dialling, Arithmetical and Instrumental
London; Printed for J. Darby, A. Bettesworth, etc. 1725. 4to. On permanent loan from University College, Oxford (D.5.20)
[1962-65/ ]
1725
U (Stack)Haye, le Sieur
Regle Horaire Universelle pour Tracer des Cadrans Solaires sur toutes sortes de Plans Reguliers, Declinans & Inclinez
Ouvrage utile aux personnes qui n'ont jamais eu de pratique dans cette science, qui est la plus belle partie des Mathematiques. Avec un abrege de la Sphere pour donner une connoissance des Cercles & Meridiens qui la composent. Par le Sieur Haye, Ingenieur. A Paris, Chez Jacques Vincent, rue & vis-a-vis l'Eglise de Saint Severin, a l'Ange. M. DCC. XVI [1716]. Billmeir Collection
[1957-84/272d]
1716
U (Stack)Heather, J. F.
Mathematical Instruments: ...
Three volumes bound in one. London: {...}, 1899, 1888, and 1891 respectively.
[1973-20]
1888-1899
U (Stack)Heggie, Douglas C.
Megalithic Science: Ancient Mathematics and Astronomy in North-West Europe
London: Thames & Hudson, 1981.
[1982-36]
1981
U (Stack)Heinz Nixdorf Museumsforum
Museumsfuhrer
Paderborn: HNF Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum, 1997; Redaktion Andreas Stolte; (Guide book to a museum of computers); Presented by Mr Dana Freiburger Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1998-156]
1997
U (Stack)Hewlett-Packard Company
HP-25 Applications Programs and HP-25 Owner's Handbook
Instructions manuals which accompanies object no. 95-20/4. Cupertino, Calif.: Hewlett-Packard, 1975.
[Unknown]
1975
U (Stack)Hillard, Denise; Poulle, Emmanuel
"Oronce Fine et l'Horloge Planetaire de la Bibliotheque Sainte-Genevieve"
Offprint from Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance, travaux et documents, tome XXXIII, 1971, pp. 311-334. (One of the components, along with an exhibition catalogue, of the folder entitled Science et Astrologie au XVIe Siecle: Oronce Fine et son Horloge Planetaire, Paris: Bibliotheque Sainte-Genevieve, 1971). Filed under Bibliotheque. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1983-113]
1971
U (Stack)Hobhouse, Christopher, d. 1940
1851 and the Crystal Palace : being an account of the Great Exhibition and its contents ; of Sir Joseph Paxton ; and the erection, the subsequent history and the destruction of his masterpiece
[Rev. ed.]. London : John Murray, 1950. Millburn bequest.
[2007-189]
1950
U (Stack)Hodkinson, Eaton
Experimental researches on the strength, and other properties of cast iron
London, 1846
[1970-72]
1846
U (Stack)Hoffmann, A.
Mechanical Puzzles
With Illustrations. Frederick Warne & Co., London. Also New York, [1896]. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
1896?
U (Stack)Hooke, Robert
Philosophical Experiments and Observations of the late Eminent Dr Robert Hooke, S.R.S. and Geom. Prof. Gresh. and Other Eminent Virtuoso's in his Time
With Copper Plates. Publish'd by W. Derham, F.R.S.; London: Printed by W. and J. Innys, Printers to the Royal Society, at the West End of St. Paul's. 1726. 8vo. From the Radcliffe Observatory
[Unknown]
1726
U (Stack)Hooke, Robert
A Description of Helioscopes, ...
(another copy, modern binding). 4to. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
[n.d.]
U (Stack)Hooke, Robert
Animadversions on the first part of the Machina Coelestis of the Honourable, Learned, and deservedly Famous Astronomer Johannes Hevelius Consul of Dantzick; together with an Explication of some Instruments made by ..., Professor of Geometry in Gresham College, and Fellow of the Royal Society
London, Printed by T.R. for John Martyn Printer to the Royal Society, at the Bell in St. Pauls Church-yard. 1674. 4to. Modern Binding. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
1674
U (Stack)Hooke, Robert
Lampas: or, Descriptions of some Mechanical Improvements of Lamps & Waterpoises. Together with some other Physical and Mechanical Discoveries
London, Printed for John Martyn, Printer to the Royal Society, at the Bell in St. Paul's Church-yard. 1677. 4to. Modern Binding. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
1677
U (Stack)Hooke, Robert
A Description of Helioscopes, and some other Instruments
made by Robert Hooke, Fellow of the Royal Society. London, [Print]ed by T.R. for John Martyn Printer to the Royal Society, at the Bell in St. Pauls Church yard, 1676. (Title page torn). 4to. Bound with many other works, various authors. Formerly the property of William Hanbury. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
1676
U (Stack)Hooke, Robert
Lampas: or, Descriptions of some Mechanical Improvements of Lamps & Waterpoises. Together with some other Physical and Mechanical Discoveries
Made by Robert Hooke, Fellow of the Royal Society. London, Printed for John Martyn, Printer to the Royal Society, at the Bell in St. Paul's Church-yard. 1677. 4to. Formerly the property of the Hirsel Library
[Unknown]
1677
U (Stack)Hooke, Robert
A Description Of Helioscopes And some other Instruments
Made By Robert Hooke, Fellow of the Royal Society. London, Printed by T.R. for John Martyn Printer to the Royal Society, at the Bell in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1676. University Observatory Collection.
[1982-105]
1676
U (Stack)Hoppus, E. (Edward), d. 1739
Hoppus's practical measurer : or, Measuring made easy to the meanest capacity
London : John Smith, 1856. Millburn bequest.
[2007-294]
1856
U (Stack)Huang ch'ao li chi'i t'u shih
Huang ch'ao li chi'i t'u shih
[Peking, 1766]. Xerographic copy (from microfilm) of British Library, 15300 e 1. (The Chinese illustrated technical encyclopaedia).
[1964-68]
1766
U (Stack)Hulme, F. Edward
Mathematical Drawing Instruments, and How to Use Them
Sixth edition; London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, & Co., 1895.
[1985-125]
1895
U (Stack)Hunaeus, G.
Die geometrischen Instrumente
?[Hanover, ?1864]. (Title page missing). Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
1864?
U (Stack)Hyatt, Alfred H.
A Book of Sundial Mottoes
With an introduction (entitled "Sundials") by Alice Meynell. London: T. N. Foulis, 1907.
[1983-23]
1907
U (Stack)Industrial Museum of New York
The Industrial Museum of New York: vol. 1 no. 1: Exhibit of Early Astronomical and Mathematical Instruments
New York: Museums of the Peaceful Arts, February 1930. Contains: "The Astrolabe" by Jekuthiel Ginsburg, "Dialling" by J. Ernest G. Yalden, "Catalogue of Mathematical Instruments Presented by David Eugene Smith". Missing, December 2018.
[1964-333]
1930
U (Stack)Istituto e Museo di Storia delle Scienze
Catalogo con Aggiornamenti. Florence, 1952
La esposizione nazionale di storia delle scienze, Firenze, Maggio - Ottobre 1929. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 1952. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1957-47]
1952
U (Stack)Istorii Estestvoznanija ...
Iz Istorii Estestvoznanija i Tekniki Pribaltiki
Vol. II (VIII). Rija: Akademija Nauk Latviiskoi, 1970.
[1970-82]
1970
U (Stack)James, Duncan
Old Typewriters
Shire Album 293; Princes Risborough: Shire Publications, 1993
[1993-137]
1993
U (Stack)Janssen, Barbara Suit
Patent Models Index : Guide to the Collections of the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2010. 2 volumes.
[2013-8]
2010
U (Stack)Jennings, David, 1691-1762
An introduction to the use of the globes, and the orrery : with the application of astronomy to chronology
London : [s.n.], 1739. Millburn bequest.
[2007-346]
1739
U (Stack)Jones, Francis
"The collection of Apparatus used by Dalton, now in the possession of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society"
in Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, vol. 48 part III, 1903-4. Memoir XXII, dated July 1st, 1904; separately paginated. Also frontispiece photograph of bust of Dalton belonging to Manchester Lit. & Phil.
[1978-477]
1904
U (Stack)Jones, W. & S.
A Catalogue of Optical, Mathematical, and Philosophical Instruments, made and sold by W. and S. Jones, no. 30, Lower Holborn, London
January 1818; 16 pp., including book list; Bound with Count de Bruhl, On the Investigation of Astronomical Circles, 1794, and A Register of one of Mr Mudges Time-Keepers. Transferred from Department of Astrophysics (University Observatory Collection)
[1968-160]
1818
U (Stack)Jones, William & Samuel
A Catalogue of Optical, Mathematical, and Philosophical Instruments, made and sold by Willm. and Saml. Jones. At their Shop, no. 135, next Furnival's Inn, Holborn, London
n.d. 12 pages. Bound with B. Martin, The Description and Use of the Pocket Case of Mathematical Instruments: ..., 1793 (revised & augmented by William Jones; & printed for & sold by W. & S. Jones). Also on final page (p. 20) of latter is price list entitled "Cases of Instruments, and their Prices, as made and sold by W. & S. Jones, no. 135, Holborn, London.".
[Unknown]
1793
U (Stack)Keay, John
The great arc : the dramatic tale of how India was mapped and Everest was named
London : HarperCollins, 2000. Millburn bequest.
[2007-48]
2000
U (Stack)Keith, Thomas
A New Treatise on the Use of the Globes; Or, A Philosophical View of The Earth And Heavens
A New Edition, considerably improved by J. Rowbotham. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. 1843.
[1974-72]
1843
U (Stack)Keith, Thomas, 1759-1824.
A new treatise on the use of the globes; : or a philosophical view of the earth and heavens
A new edition, considerably improved. London : printed for Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, Paternoster-Row., [1839?]. Variant titles: Keith on the globes ; Philosophical view of the earth and heavens Millburn bequest
[2007-92]
1839?
U (Stack)Kenney, Cyril Ernest
Captain Toby, F.S.I, or, The Surveyor at War
London: [the author?], 1939. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[Unknown]
1939
U (Stack)Kiely, Edmond R., b. 1899
Surveying instruments : their history
Columbus, Ohio : Carben Surveying Reprints, 1979. First published as: Surveying instruments : their history and classroom use (New York : Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1947). Millburn bequest. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2007-263]
1979
U (Stack)King, C. W.
"Notice of a Remarkable Intaglio Representing the Clepsydra Used at Races in the Circus Maximus"
in Early Christian Numismatics, and Other Antiquarian Tracts, London: Bell & Daldy, 1873, pp. 113-122.
[1983-114]
1873
U (Stack)King, C. W.
"Talismans and Amulets"
in Early Christian Numismatics, and Other Antiquarian Tracts, London: Bell & Daldy, 1873, pp. 173-221.
[1983-114]
1873
U (Stack)King, C. W.
"On a Ceraunia of Jade Converted into a Gnostic Talisman"
in Early Christian Numismatics, and Other Antiquarian Tracts, London: Bell & Daldy, 1873, pp. 223-347.
[1983-114]
1873
U (Stack)King, C. W.
Early Christian Numismatics, and Other Antiquarian Tracts
London: Bell & Daldy, 1873. (The other tracts include "Notice of a Remarkable Intaglio Representing the Clepsydra Used at Races in the Circus Maximus", pp. 113-122; "Talismans and Amulets", pp. 173-221; & "On a Ceraunia of Jade Converted into a Gnostic Talisman", pp. 223-347)
[1983-114]
1873
U (Stack)Kingdon, J. A.
The Strife of the Scales: An Attempt to Explain how the King's Weigh-House and Beams within the City of London came into the charge of the Worshipful Company of Grocers
For Private Circulation. Published in May 1904 by J. A. Kingdon. (With a Supplement.)
[1947- ]
1904
U (Stack)Kojima, Takashi
The Japanese Abacus its Use and Theory
Tokyo, 1963.
[1964-114]
1963
U (Stack)Kuhn, Klaus; Kleine, Karl (eds.)
Dennert & Pape Aristo 1872-1978: Rechenschieber und mathematisch-geodatische Instrumente
Munchen: Zuckschwerdt, 2004. With 2 CD-ROMs. Presented by Professor Karl Kleine. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2004-163]
2004
U (Stack)Korber, Hans-Gunther
Zur Geschichte der Konstruktion von Sonnenuhren und Kompassen des 16. Bis 18. Jahrhunderts
Berlin: Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, 1965. Presented by the Dresden Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2004-113]
1965
U (Stack)Lancaster-Jones, E.
Catalogue of the Collections in the Science Museum South Kensington with Descriptive and Historical Notes and Illustrations: Geodesy and Surveying
Board of Education. London: HMSO., 1925. 3 copies; Shelved under Science Museum.
[Unknown]
1925
U (Stack)Lardner, Dionysius
Lectures on the Steam-engine, in which its construction and operation are familiarly explained: with a sketch of its invention and progressive improvement, and an account of the present state of the Liverpool railway, and the performances on it; and of steam carriages on turnpike roads
Illustrated by Engravings and Woodcuts. Fourth Edition, considerably enlarged. London: Printed for John Taylor. 1832.
[Unknown]
1832
U (Stack)Lau Chung Him
The Principles and Practice of the Chinese Abacus
Publ. Lau Chung Him & Co., Authorized Auditors, 39 Connaught Road, Central, Hong Kong. First Edn July 1958
[1963-154]
1958
U (Stack)Law, Rodney James
James Watt and the separate condenser : an account of the invention
Science Museum monograph London : H.M.S.O., 1969. Millburn bequest.
[2007-252]
1969
U (Stack)Leadbetter, Charles
The Royal Gauger; or, Gauging made Perfectly Easy, as it is actually practised by the Officers of his Majesty's Revenue of Excise. In Two Parts. Part I. Containing the practical Methods of finding the Areas and Contents of such Superficies and Solids as are the Foundation of Gauging. ... The Examples being performed here both by the Pen and Sliding Rule: ... With the Officer's Duty in the Distillery and Glass-house: Freed from the Obscurities and Errors of other Writers. Part II. Shewing all the necessary Steps to be taken for obtaining Employment in the Excise ...
The Fifth Edition, very much enlarged and improved. For the Benefit of Young Officers, from the Valuable and Authentic Manuscripts of a Collector; and of Mr. John Downer and Mr. Joseph Bosley, ...; London: Printed (by Assignment from the Executors of Edward Wicksteed) for C. Hitch and L. Hawes, R. Baldwin, J. Richardson, and others. 1760. 8vo. (Purchase)
[1933- ]
1760
U (Stack)Lenfeld, Jiri
Slunecni Hodiny ze sbirek UPM v Praze
Acta UPM XVI D. Supplementa 4; Prague: Umeleckoprumyslove Museum v Praze, 1984; (Sundials and related instruments in the Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague); Presented by Professor G. L'E. Turner
[1989-99]
1984
U (Stack)Leybourn
Leybourn's Dialling Improv'd; or, the Whole Art Perform'd, I. Geometrically: By Scale and Compasses, ... II. Arithmetically: By Sines and Tangents. Also, How to describe all necessary Furniture for Sun-Dials, as the Sun's Place and Declination; ... With Reflective Dialling: Shewing how to make a Dial that shall give the true Hour of the Day, where the Sun cannot shine. To which is now added, Instrumental Dialling: ... Concluding with Tables ready calculated for all Latitudes and Declinations, ...
By Henry Wilson. The Third Edition, corrected and improv'd by Charles Leadbetter. London: Printed by H. Parker, for A. Bettesworth. 1728. 8vo.
[Unknown]
1728
U (Stack)Leybourn, William
The Description of an Entertaining and Useful Instrument, called Gunter's Quadrant: By which is performed Most Propositions in Astronomy; as the Altitude, Azimuth, Right Ascension and Declination of the Sun, etc. also his Rising and Setting; together with the Hour of the Day or Night, and other Conclusions, exemplified at large. To which is added The Use of the Universal Ring-Dial
Fourth edition. London: for John Gilbert, Mathematical, Optical, and Philosophical, Instrument-Maker, 1771.
[1981-26]
1771
U (Stack)Leybourn, William
The Line of Proportion, commonly called Gunter's Line, Made Easie. A Second Part. With the addition of other Lines, which may convenient*y be put upon a Two-foot Rule, and their Uses Exemplified, in Arithmetick, Geometry, Military Affairs, Trigonometry, Astronomy, Dialling, Geography, Navigation
To which is added a Supplement ... by John Brown. London, Printed by W. L. and T. J. for George Sawbridge at the Bible on Ludgate-Hill. 1677. 12 mo.; Presented by Mr. Rhys Jenkin, Hermitage, Newbury.
[1936/7- ?]
1677
U (Stack)Li Shu-Hua
The South-Pointing Carriage and the Mariners Compass
Taipei, 1959. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1965-226]
1959
U (Stack)Love, John
Geodaesia: or, the Art of Surveying and Measuring Land made Easy. Shewing by Plain and Practical Rules, to Survey, Protract, Cast up, Reduce or Divide any Piece of Land whatsoever; with New Tables for the Ease of the Surveyor in Reducing the Measures of Land. Moreover a more Facile and Sure Way of Surveying by the Chain, than has hitherto been taught. As also to lay out New Lands in America, or elsewhere: And how to make a Perfect Map of a River's Mouth or Harbour; with several other Things ...
The Eighth Edition, corrected and Improved by Samuel Clark. London: Printed for J. Rivington, and others. 8vo. 1768.
[Unknown]
1768
U (Stack)Ludlam, [William]
Directions for the use of Hadley's Quadrant, with Remarks on the Construction of that Instrument. With considerable Corrections and Additions
By the Reverend Mr. Ludlam, Late Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. London, 1790. Printed for [Thos.] Blunt, Mathematical and Optical Instrument-Maker to His Majesty, [no. 22] opposite the Royal-Exchange, and J. Sewell. Bookseller, Cornhill. 8vo. R. S. Clay's copy (purchase)
[1949- ]
1790
U (Stack)Machabey, Armand
La Metrologie dans les Musees de Province et sa contribution a l'histoire des poids et mesures en France depuis le treizieme siecle
Paris: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, n.d. [c.1959]. These pour le doctorat de l'universite soutenue{?} en Sorbonne le 19 juin 1959. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1979-332]
1959
U (Stack)Machabey, Armand
Memoire sur l'Histoire de la Balance et de la Balancerie
Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1949. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1977-41]
1949
U (Stack)Marshack, Alexander
"Polesini: A Reexamination of the Engraved Upper Palaeolithic Mobilary Materials of Italy by a New Methodology"
offprint from Rivista di Scienze Preistoriche, XXIV:2, 1969, pp. 219-281. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1971-10]
1969
U (Stack)Marshack, Alexander
"Exploring the Mind of Ice Age Man"
in National Geographic 147(1), January 1975, pp. 62-89.
[Unknown]
1975
U (Stack)Martin, B.
The Astronomy and Geography of Transits, and the Principles of Calculation, illustrated and applied to the ensuing Transit of Venus in 1769; with the Construction and Use of a Transit Globe for that purpose. Embellished with Three large Copper Plates, and a Map of the Great South Sea
London: Printed for and sold by the Author in Fleet-Street, (no. 171) and by all Booksellers in City and Country. n.d. [c.1746]. 8vo. R. S. Clay's copy (purchase)
[1949- ]
1746?
U (Stack)Martin, B.
Optical Essays, ...
London: Printed for, and sold by the Author in Fleet-Street, n.d. Bound with Martin, Air-Pump, and other works.
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
U (Stack)Martin, B.
Institutions of Astronomical Calculations
See "The Astronomy and Geography of Transits" (Part II of the above work).
[1949- ]
[n.d.]
U (Stack)Martin, Benjamin
"Instruments Invented or Improved by Mr. B. Martin, and sold at the Sign of the Globe in Fleet-Street"
in An Essay on the Nature and Superior Use of Globes, ... (London: for the Author, 1758), pp. 43-44. (Price list of one and a half pages). Bound with Martin, Air-Pump, and other works. Also photocopy in file CATA.
[Unknown]
1758
U (Stack)Martin, Benjamin
The Young Trigonometer's New Guide; containing the Elements of Plain and Spherical Trigonometry, deduced from the Principles of the Sphere in a Method entirely new; with the Analogies for solving all Cases, and Varieties of Triangles in every Way hitherto invented; with their Application to Practice. Together with the Principles of Fluxionary Trigonometry fully explained and exemplified in many useful Problems. Also the Laws and Rules of the Stereographic Projection of the Sphere explained, and applied to the Delineation and Solution of Spherical Triangles, and the Construction of Maps and Dials
Illustrated by Four Copper-Plates. London. Printed for, and sold by the Author, no. 171, Fleet-Street. 8vo. (Forms vol. (Part IV) 4 of "The Mariner's Mirror"). R. S. Clay's copy (purchased)
[1949- ]
[n.d.]
U (Stack)Martin, Benjamin
An Essay on a New Construction, of the Reflecting Telescope, which by means of a Scale of Magnifying Powers, is made an Universal Perspective. Performing the Office of I. Of a common Reflecting Telescope. II. Engyscope, for shewing all near Objects. III. A Megalascope, for all the larger Sort of small Objects. IV. A Microscope, for small Objects. V. A Helioscope for making the Sun's Image by Reflection only. VI. A Helioscope by Reflection and Refraction. VII. A Solar-Disk Microscope. VIII. A Catadioptric Microscope
London. Printed for, and sold by B. Martin, no. 171, Fleet Street, n.d. [c.1772]. 8vo. Bound with "Grand Standard Thermometer".
[Unknown]
1772?
U (Stack)Martin, Benjamin
An Essay on the Nature and Superior Use of Globes. In conveying the First Principles of Geography and Astronomy To the Minds of Youth; Also A Candid Examination of the Construction and Use of Planispheres, wherein The Erroneous Nature, and many bad Consequences, attending the Use of the Vulgar Projection are pointed out: And The Nature and Use of the Globular Projection, With many New Improvements, Illustrated by a Solution of Several Problems, Explaining the general Principles of Geography and Astronomy, by Way of Introduction to the more ready Use of the Globes
London: Printed for the Author, 1758. Bound with Martin, Air-Pump, & other works. (Includes price list at end, pp. 43-44 [see separate entry]).
[Unknown]
1758
U (Stack)Martin, Benjamin
The Description and Use of a New, Portable, Table Air-Pump and Condensing Engine. With a Select Variety of Capital Experiments, Which, together with the different Parts of the Apparatus and Glasses, Are Illustrated by upwards of Forty Copper-Plate Figures
London: Printed and Sold by the Author in Fleet-Street, 1766. (Bound with it are two other pamphlets by Martin, and four by other authors.)
[Unknown]
1766
U (Stack)Martin, Benjamin
Thermometrum Magnum: or, Grand Standard Thermometer. Expressing All Degrees of Heat and Cold, from that with which Mercury boils, to that which congeals it into solid Metal. To which are adjusted the celebrated Scales of Sir Isaac Newton, Fahrenheit, De L'Isle, and Reamur, for comparing Observations made in every Part of the Globe, and in all Degrees of Temperature in the Air, or any other Bodies. The Whole delineated on, and illustrated by, a Large Copper-Plate
London: Printed for, and sold by the Author, in Fleet Street, no. 171, and by the Booksellers. A. D. 1772. 8vo. R. S. Clay's copy (purchase)
[1949- ]
1772
U (Stack)Martin, Benjamin
A Catalogue of Philosophical, Optical, and Mathematical Instruments Made and Sold by Benjamin Martin, At his Shop, the Sign of Hadley's Quadrant and Visual-Glasses, near Crane-Court, in Fleet-Street
n.p., n.d. 5 pages. Bound with Martin, Air-Pump (1766), at the end of Optical Essays (n.d.).
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
U (Stack)Martin, Benjamin
The Mariner's Mirror
Part II. "A Method of finding the Longitude of a Ship at Sea". Part IV. "The Young Trigonometer's New Guide, etc." See individual record cards. 8vo. R. S. Clay's copy (purchase)
[1949- ]
[n.d.]
U (Stack)Martin, Benjamin
The Description and Use of the Pocket Case of Mathematical Instruments: wherein are particularly explained the Nature and Use of all the Lines contained on the Plain Scale, the Sector, the Gunter, and Proportional Compasses. Also, Their Practical Application, exemplified in a variety of Mathematical Problems
The whole illustrated by Copper Plate Figures. By the late Mr. B. ... Revised and augmented by William Jones, ... London: Printed for and sold by W. and S. Jones. 1793. 8vo. R. S. Clay's copy (purchase)
[1949- ]
1793
U (Stack)Martin, Benjamin
A Description of the Nature, Construction, and Use of the Torricellian, or Simple Barometer. With a Scale of Rectification for estimating the True Altitude of the Column of Mercury (equal to the Weight of the Atmosphere) to the Hundredth Part of an Inch. Also the Theory and Construction of the Compound Barometer; the Nature and Use of the Thermometer, and Hygrometer. With an Appendix. Containing an Analytical Solution of a Barometrical Problem
The whole illustrated by Copper-Plate Figures ... London: Printed for, and Sold by the Author, in Fleet-Street, and by the Booksellers in City and Country. 1778. 8vo. R. S. Clay's copy (purchase)
[1949- ]
1778
U (Stack)Martin, Benjamin
A New and Genuine Method of finding the Longitude of a Ship at Sea. As also, the Place and Latitude of the Moon, by the Method of Interpolation
The whole illustrated with Copper-plate Figures, adapted to every Part of the Work. (Forms Part II of "The Mariner's Mirror"). London: Printed for and sold by the Author in Fleet-Street, (no. 171.) and by all Booksellers in City and Country. 1769. 8vo. R. S. Clay's copy (purchase)
[1949- ]
1769
U (Stack)Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782
The description and use of an universal sliding rule
London : printed for, and sold by the author, at no. 171 in Fleet-street, and by all booksellers in city and country., [1770?]. Millburn bequest.
[2007-298]
1770?
U (Stack)Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782
The description and use of both the globes, the armillary sphere, and orrery
London : printed for, and sold by the author in Fleetstreet, [1758]. 2 copies. Millburn bequest.
[2007-372] and [2007-373]
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U (Stack)Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782
The description and use of both the globes, the armillary sphere, and orrery
The second edition corrected, and enlarged. London : printed for, and sold by the author, [1773?] Millburn bequest.
[2007-374]
1773?
U (Stack)Martin, Carolyn, 1939- ; Fearnley, Tessa (illustrator)
A celebration of Cornish sundials
[Redruth] : Dyllansow Truran, 1994. Millburn bequest.
[2007-257]
1994
U (Stack)Martin-Artajo G., Javier; Perez, Jacinto del Buey
Relojes de Sol de Guadalajara
Madrid : Diputacion de Guadalajara, 2003. Part of donation from Christopher Daniel, July 2013. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2014-140/15]
2003
U (Stack)Martinez-Hidalgo y Teran, Jose Maria
Historia y Leyenda de la Aguja Magnetica
contribucion de los Espanoles al progreso de la nautica. Barcelona: Editorial Gustavo Gili, S. A., 1946.
[Unknown]
1946
U (Stack)Marzio, Peter C.
The Art Crusade - an analysis of American drawing manuals, 1820-1860
Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology. no. 34. Washington: Smithsonian Institute Press, 1976. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1977-21]
1976
U (Stack)McConnell, Anita
Barometers
Shire album ; 220 Princes Risborough : Shire, 1988. Millburn bequest.
[2007-276]
1988
U (Stack)Meadows, Cecil A. (Cecil Austen)
Trade signs and their origin
London : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1957. Millburn bequest.
[2007-85]
1957
U (Stack)Menninger, K.
Zahlwort und Ziffer
Gottingen, 1958.
[1965-336]
1958
U (Stack)Menzel, Brigitte
Goldgewichte aus Ghana
Veroffentlichungen des Museums fur Volkerkunde Berlin, neue folge 12, abteilung Afrika III. Berlin: Museum fur Volkerkunde, 1968.
[1980-231]
1968
U (Stack)Messadie, Gerald
The Wordsworth dictionary of inventions
Ware : Wordsworth Editions, 1995. Millburn bequest. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2007-280]
1995
U (Stack)Meucci, F.
Il Globo Celeste Arabico del secolo XI
esistente nel Gabinetto degli Strumenti Antichi di Astronomia, di Fisica e di Matematica del R. Istituto di Studi Superiori illustrato da ... ; Pubblicazioni del R. Istituto di Studi Superiori pratici e di Perfezionamento in Firenze. Tipografia dei Successori le Monnier, Firenze. 1878. Formerly the property of Robert. Eisler.
[1950- ]
1878
U (Stack)Michel, Henri
Les Douze Joies du Collectionneur
Bruxelles: Librairie Encyclopeedique, 1941. Photocopy. Presented by Mr. & Mrs. R. Webster
[1979-306]
1941
U (Stack)Michel, Henri
Catalogue des Cadrans Solaires du Musee de la Vie Wallonne
Second edition. Liege: Editions di Musee Wallon, 1974. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1980-185]
1974
U (Stack)Michel, Henri
Messer uber Zeit und Raum: Messinstrumente aus 5 Jahrhunderten
Stuttgart: Chr. Belser, 1965. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2005-4]
1965
U (Stack)Middleton, Reginald E.; Chadwick, Osbert; Bogle, J.du T.
A Treatise on Surveying
Second edition. Two volumes. London: E. & F. N. Spon, 1908 & 1906.
[1980-290]
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U (Stack)Millas Vallicrosa, Jose Ma.
"Tres instrumentos astronomicos arabes de los Museos de Tetuan y Madrid"
in Al-Andalus: Revista de las escuelas de estudios arabes de Madrid y Granada, vol. XII fasc. 1, 1947, pp. 49-64.
[1964-208]
1947
U (Stack)Millburn, John R.
"Gunnery Instruments and their Makers in the Eighteenth Century"
in Journal of the Ordnance Society, vol. 7, 1995, pp. 27-44. Presented by the author
[1995-82]
1995
U (Stack)Molineux, Thomas, 1759-1850
A concise introduction to the knowledge of the globes
The ninth edition. London : Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green; Whittaker, Treacher, and Co.; Baldwin and Cradock; J. Duncan; Hamilton and Co.; Simpkin and Marshall; J. Souter; W. Darton; and Holdsworth and Ball, 1829. Millburn bequest.
[2007-348]
1829
U (Stack)Moody, Ernest A.; Clagett, Marshall. (eds.)
The Medieval Science of Weights (Scientia de Ponderibus)
Treatises Ascribed to Euclid, Archimedes, Thabit b. Qurra, Jordanus de Nemore and Blasius of Parma. Edited with Introductions, English Translations, and Notes, by ... The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison. 1952.
[1953- ]
1952
U (Stack)Morgan, Augustus De
The Globes, Celestial and Terrestial
Second Edition; Malby & Co., London 1845
[1974-124]
1845
U (Stack)Morland, Samuel
The Description and Use of Two Arithmetick Instruments Together with a Short Treatise, explaining and Demonstrating the Ordinary Operations of Arithmetick. As likewise, a Perpetual Almanack, and several Useful Tables
Presented to His Most Excellent Majesty Charles II. King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, etc. London, Printed, and are to be Sold by Moses Pitt at the White-Hart in Little-Britain, 1673. 8vo. On permanent loan from University College, Oxford (R.4.10)
[1962-65/ ]
1673
U (Stack)Morland, Samuel
The Description and Use of Two Arithmetick Instruments Together with a Short Treatise, explaining and Demonstrating the Ordinary Operations of Arithmetick. As likewise, a Perpetual Almanack, and several Useful Tables
Presented to His Most Excellent Majesty Charles II. King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, etc. London, Printed, and are to be Sold by Moses Pitt at the White-Hart in Little-Britain, 1673. 8vo.
[Unknown]
1673
U (Stack)Morris, I. H. (I. Hammond)
Geometrical drawing for art students
9th ed. London : Longmans, Green and Co., 1902. First published 1890. Millburn bequest. Missing, December 2018.
[2007-127]
1902
U (Stack)Motzo, B. R. (ed.)
Il compasso di navigare. Opera italiana della meta del secolo XIII
Annali della Facolta di Lettere e Filosofia della Universita di Cagliari, vol. VIII; Rei Nauticae Monumenta Italica. I. Prefazione e testo del codice Hamilton 396 a cura di Bacchisio R. Motzo. Cagliari-Universita 1947.
[1965-64]
1947
U (Stack)Moxon, Joseph
A Tutor to Astronomie and Geographie. Or an Easie and speedy way to know the Use of both the Globes, Caelestial and Terrestrial
(Another copy, the second Edition). The second Edition, Corrected and enlarged. ... London, Printed by Joseph Moxon: and sold at his Shop in Russel street, at the signe of Atlas. 1670. 4to. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
1670
U (Stack)Moxon, Joseph
A Tutor to Astronomy and Geography. Or an easie and speedy way to know the Use of both the Globes, Coelestial and Terrestrial
In Six Books. 1. Teaching the Rudiments of Astronomy and Geography. 2. Shewing by the Globes the solution of Astronomical and Geographical Problemes. Problemes in Navigation. Astrological Problemes. Gnomonical Problemes. Trigonometrical Problemes. [3.-6.] More fully and amply than hath yet been set forth, either by Gemma Frisius, Metius, Hues, Wright, Blaew, or any others that have taught the Use of the Globes: And that so Plainly and Methodically, that the meanest Capacity may at first reading apprehend it, and with a little practice grow expert in these Divine Sciences. With an Appendix shewing the Use of the Ptolomaick Sphere. The Third Edition Corrected and Enlarged. (1674). By Joseph Moxon, Hydrographer to the King's most Excellent Majesty. Whereunto is added the Antient Poetical stories of the Stars: shewing Reasons why the several shapes and forms are pictured on the Caelestial Globe. As also a Discourse of the Antiquity, Progress and Augmentation of Astronomy. London, printed by Tho. Roycroft, for Joseph Moxon: and Sold at his Shop on Ludgate Hill, at the sign of Atlas. 4to. Formerly the property of Jno: Monk and W. T. Adrian
[Unknown]
1674
U (Stack)Moxon, Joseph
A Tutor To Astronomy and Geography. Or an easie and speedy way to know the Use of both the Globes, Coelestial and Terrestrial
In Six Books. The 1. Teaching the Rudiments of Astronomy and Geography. 2. Shewing by the Globes the solution of Astronomical and Geographical Problemes. 3. Problemes in Navigation. 4. Astrological Problemes. 5. Gnomonical Problemes. 6. Trigonometrical Problemes. More fully and amply than hath yet been set forth, either by Gemma Frisius, Metius, Hues, Wright, Blaew, or any others that have taught the Use of the Globes: And that so Plainly and Methodically, that the meanest Capacity may at first reading apprehend it, and with a little practice grow expert in these Divine Sciences. With an Appendix shewing the Use of the Ptolomaick Sphere. The Third Edition Corrected and Enlarged. By Joseph Moxon, Hydrographer to the King's most Excellent Majesty. Whereunto is added the Antient Poetical stories of the Stars: shewing Reasons why the several shapes and forms are pictured on the Coelestial Globe. As also a Discourse of the Antiquity, Progress and Augmentation of Astronomy. London, Printed by Tho. Roycroft, for Joseph Moxon: and Sold at his Shop on Ludgate-Hill, at the sign of Atlas. MDCLXXIV. University Observatory Collection
[1982-112]
1674
U (Stack)Moxon, Joseph
Mathematicks made Easie: or, a Mathematical Dictionary, explaining the Terms of Art, and Difficult Phrases used in Arithmetick, Geometry, Astronomy, Astrology, and other Mathematical Sciences. Wherein the true Meaning of the word is Rendred, the Nature of Things signified Discussed, and (where Need requires) Illustrated with Figures and Diagrams. With an Appendix, exactly containing the Quantities ...
The Second Edition, Corrected and much Enlarged by Hen. Coley. London, Printed for J. Moxon, at the Sign of Atlas in Warwick Lane. 1692. 8vo. 2 copies (one with portrait). 1st and 2nd editions.
[Unknown]
1692
U (Stack)Moxon, Joseph
Mathematicks made easie or a Mathematical Dictionary etc.
Third edition. London, 1700. University Observatory Collection
[1968-171]
1700
U (Stack)Moxon, Joseph
"A Catalogue of Books, Mapps, and Instruments, Made and Sold by Joseph Moxon, at his Shop on Ludgate-Hill at the Sign of the Atlas"
in Joseph Moxon, A Tutor to Astronomy and Geography ... (3rd edition, 1674), p. [272].
[Unknown]
1674
U (Stack)Moxon, Joseph, 1627-1691
A tutor to astronomy and geography : or an easie and speedy way to know the use of both the globes, coelestial and terrestrial
London : printed by S. Roycroft, for Joseph Moxon: and sold at his shop in Ludgate Street, at the sign of Atlas, 1686. Millburn bequest.
[2007-321]
1686
U (Stack)Mulder, W. J.
"Enkele Aspecten uit de Ontwikkeling van het Verloskundig Instrumentarium"
in Marian Fournier & Bert Theunissen (eds.), Het Instrument in de Wetenschap (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1988), pp. 229-247.
[1989-150]
1988
U (Stack)Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris
Exposition des Instruments et Outils d'Autrefois
March-April, 1936. Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Palais du Louvre - Pavillon de Marsan, Paris. France. 3 copies + 1 (bound). Gunther Loan Collection (1) Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
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1936
U (Stack)Museo Nazionale della scienza e della Tecnica
Le Gallerie di Leonardo da Vinci nel Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnica
Milan: 1956. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1956-117]
1956
U (Stack)Morzer Bruyns, W. F. J.
"Navigatie-Instrumenten van de Zeebodem 16e tot 19e Eeuw"
in Marian Fournier & Bert Theunissen (eds.), Het Instrument in de Wetenschap (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1988), pp. 263-282.
[1989-150]
1988
U (Stack)Nachet Collection
Collection Nachet. Instruments Scientifiques et Livres Anciens
Notice sur l'Invention du Microscope et son evolution par Albert Nachet. Liste de Savants, Constructeurs & Amateurs du XVIe au milieu du XIXe siecle. Paris: Imprimerie Georges Petit, 1929. Gunther Loan Collection.
[1940-6/ ]
1929
U (Stack)National Maritime Museum (Great Britain)
Catalogue
"Under revision". Greenwich: printed for the Trustees, 1937.
[Unknown]
1937
U (Stack)Negretti & Zambra
A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments: explanatory of their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility
London: Published and Sold at Negretti & Zambra's Establishments: 1 Hatton Garden, E.C., 59 Cornhill, E.C., 122 Regent Street, W., and 153 Fleet Street, E.C. 1864. Formerly the property of Edward Chapman; presented by R. T. Gunther
[1925- ]
1864
U (Stack)Negretti; Zambra
A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments
London, 1864
[1966-180]
1864
U (Stack)Negretti; Zambra
Negretti and Zambra's Catalogue
London, n.d. [after 1878].
[1966-255]
1878?
U (Stack)Nelson, Edward Milles
On British Stone Circles
London: Robert Atkinson, 1907. (Contains autograph letter from Nelson to Gunther, dated January 16, 1907.)
[Unknown]
1907
U (Stack)Nelson, Edward Milles
The Cult of the Circle-Builders
Robert Atkinson (London) Limited, 1909. (With two supplements, the second being published in 1911. All bound in one volume). 1911 on cover. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
1909
U (Stack)Nesbit, A.
A Complete Treatise on Practical Land-surveying in All its Departments: Designed Chiefly for the Use of Schools and Private Students. ...
The Ninth Edition, ... to which are now added, Plane Trigonometry, ... Railway Engineering, ... by T. Baker. London, 1847.
[1972-190]
1847
U (Stack)Nicholson, R. T.
Mechanical Devices of the Typewriter: A Handbook Dealing with the Use and Adjustment of the various Typewriter Devices
London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., [1920?]
[1974-53]
1920?
U (Stack)Nicholson, R. T.
Mechanical Devices of the Typewriter: A handbook dealing with the use and adjustment of the various typewriter devices
London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, [1920?]
[1982-13]
1920?
U (Stack)Norie, J. W.
A Complete Epitome of Practical Navigation, and Nautical Astronomy, containing all necessary instructions for keeping a ship's reckoning at sea: with the most improved methods of ascertaining the Latitude and Longitude, and every requisite to form The Complete Navigator; the whole being rendered perfectly easy, and illustrated by numerous examples, diagrams and charts. Together with a correct and extensive Set of Tables, preceded by a copious explanation of each table
New edition, revised by W. H. Rosser. London: Norie & Wilson, at the Navigation Warehouse & Naval Academy, 1889.
[1981-27]
1889
U (Stack)Norie, John
The Description and Use of Hadley's Quadrant and Sextant. In which are contained the Best Methods of Adjusting these Instruments, and of Ascertaining the Latitude of a Ship at Sea, by the Meridional Altitude of the Sun, Moon, a Planet, or Fixed Star
Also, an Improved Method of Taking a Lunar Observation; ... to which are added, Complete and Correct Tables of the Sun's Declination, calculated to the Year 1804 Tables of the Right Ascension of the Sun and Fixed Stars, and all Others necessary to be used in Finding the Latitude by a Meridional Altitude. London: Published by Heather and Williams, at the Navigation Warehouse, Leadenhall Street. 1796. 8vo. R. S. Clay's copy (purchase)
[1949- ]
1796
U (Stack)Norman, Robert
The Newe Attractive, shewing the Nature, Propertie, and manifold Vertues of the Loadstone; with the Declination of the Needle, touched therewith, under the Plaine of the Horizon
Found out and Discovered by Robert Norman. London: Re-{?}printed in the Year 1720. 8vo (4to page notation). From the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford
[Unknown]
1720
U (Stack)Orsini, Latino
Trattato del Radio Latino: Istrumento Giustissimo & facile piu d'ogn'altro per prendere qual si voglia misura, & positione di luogo tanto in Cielo, come in Terra. Il Quale Oltre Alle Operationi Proprie sue fa anco tutte quelle della Gran Regola di C. Tolomeo, & dell' antico Radio Astronomico
Inventato dall' III.mo et Eccell.mo Signor Latino Orsini; In Roma, Con Licentia de i Superiori. Appresso Vincentio Accolti. M. D. LXXXIII; (Preface by Egnatio Danti) (Presentation copy from Danti); Purchased in 1953-54
[Unknown]
1583
U (Stack)Oughtred, W.
The Circles of Proportion and The Horizontall Instrument etc.
Both invented, and the uses of both written in Latine by W. Oughtred AEtonens. Translated into English and set forth for the publique benefit by W. F. [orster] And now by the Authors consent, Revised, Corrected, and Freed from all mistakes in the former editition: and also much Amplifyed and Explained, by A. H. Gent. Oxford, printed by W. Hall for R. Davis. Anno Dom. 1660. 8vo. MS notes on this edition by S. P. Rigaud. From the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford
[Unknown]
1660
U (Stack)Paris Exhibition (1900)
Musee Retrospectif de la Classe 15 Instruments de precision
a l'Exposition Universelle Internationale de 1900, a Paris. Rapport du Comite d'Installation. Paris. (Saint-Cloud). ?1900.
[1957-103]
1900
U (Stack)Parkinson, A. C.
Engineering Inspection: An Introduction to Inspection Work Including Special Reference to Aero Requirements
Second edition, revised and extended. (First edition, 1940.); London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1943.
[1982-74]
1943
U (Stack)Parsons, Charles A.
The Steam Turbine
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1911. The Rede Lecture, 1911. Formerly the property of R. T. Gunther; Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
1911
U (Stack)Pasley, C. W.
Rules, chiefly deduced from experiment, for conducting the Practical Operations of a Siege
originally composed for the use of the Royal Engineer Establishment at Chatham, by C. W. Pasley Director. Part I. Containing the Preparation of the Necessary Materials. ... Second Edition (1841). Part II Containing an Essay on the Construction of Batteries in the Field. Second Edition (1843). Bound together. London: John Weale, 1841; and London: John Weale & others, 1843. NB: section on Field Level (Part II, Appendix pp. 228/31).
[Unknown]
1841-1843
U (Stack)Pattenden, Philip
The Pelican Sundial: Description of the tables
Oxford: Corpus Christi College, 1980. Missing, December 2018.
[1981-163]
1980
U (Stack)Peacock Productions.
The Mercator globes, 1541-1994.
Luxembourg : Peacock Management Services, [1994?] Prospectus for globes to be recreated in facsimile by Peacock Productions. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2014-83]
1994?
U (Stack)Perry, John
Spinning Tops
The "Operative's Lecture" of the British Association Meeting at Leeds, 6th September, 1890. With numerous illustrations. In the series "The Romance of Science". Published under the direction of the Committee of General Literature and Education appointed by the Society for Promoting Christain Knowledge, Northumberland Avenue, Charing Cross, W. C.; 1890.
[Unknown]
1890
U (Stack)Physical Society
Catalogue of the Twenty-Third Annual Exhibition of Scientific Instruments and Apparatus
Held at the Imperial College of Science & Technology South Kensington: London. S.W.7 ... January 3, 4 and 5 1933. The Physical Society, London Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[Unknown]
1933
U (Stack)Picard, M. L'Abbe
Degre Du Meridien Entre Paris Et Amiens, Determine Par la Mesure de M. Picard, Et Par les Observations de Mrs De Maupertuis, Clairaut, Camus, Le Monnier, de l'Academie Royale des Sciences. D'Ou L'On Deduit La Figure de la Terre, par la comparaison de ce Degre avec celui qui a ete mesure au Cercle Polaire
A Paris, Chez G. Martin, J. B. Coignard, & H. L. Guerin. MDCCXL. (In two sections: "Mesure Du Degre Du Meridien En France", pp. i-lvj + plates; and "Mesure De La Terre, Par M. L'Abbe Picard, De L'Academie Royale Des Sciences", pp. 1-116 + plates). University Observatory Collection.
[1982-114]
1740
U (Stack)Pickworth, Charles N.
Instructions for the Use of A. W. Faber's Improved Calculating Rules
London: A. W. Faber, n.d. Together with two leaflets: Instructions for the Use of A. W. Faber's Improved Calculating Rule; and Instructions for the Use of A. W. Faber's Calculating Rule no. 378 for Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (both London: A. W. Faber, n.d.). (Includes a price list of A. W. Faber calculating rules, pp. 55-58, and (following on from that, but unpaginated) an 8-page catalogue of A. W. Faber pencils and rubbers). Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1985-126]
[n.d.]
U (Stack)Pigeon, Jean
Description d'une Sphere Mouvante par le Moyen d'une Pendule, d'un Globe monte d'une facon particuliere, & d'un nouveau Planishpere pour les distances & grosseurs des Planetes
Le tout selon l'hypothese de Copernic. Expliquee & demontree par Jean Pigeon, Mathematicien: Ou par G. le Roy, son beau-fils. Dediee a Son Altesse Royale Monseigneur le Duc d'Orleans. A Paris, Chez Jacques Quillau, Imprimeur-Jure. Libraire de l'Universite, rue Galande, proche la rue du Fouare. M.DCCXIV. Avec approbation et privilege du Roy.
[1959-101]
1714
U (Stack)Pouls, H. C.
De landmeter Jan Pietersz. Dou en de Hollandse Cirkel
Delft: Nederlandse Commissie voor Geodesie, 2004. Presented by the publisher. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2004-102]
2004
U (Stack)Price, Derek J. de Solla
"The Little Ship of Venice"
in Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (The Bruno Kisch Issue), vol. XV no. 4, October 1960, pp. 399-407. Published by Department of the History of Science and Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
[1961-139]
1960
U (Stack)Price, Derek J. de Solla
"Piecing Together an Ancient Puzzle: The Tower of the Winds"
in National Geographic, vol. 131 no. 4, April 1967, pp. 586-596. Presented by the author
[1967-118]
1967
U (Stack)Rabinovic, I. M.; Sklennik, C. F.
"Zamecatel'nyj Vil'njusskij Astronom XVIII Veka Martin Pocobut-Odljanickij"
in Iz Istorii Estestvoznanija i Tehniki Pribaltiki, Tom II (VIII), 1970, pp. 53-64. (Martin Pocobut-Odljanickij (1728-1810), telescopes, globes.)
[1970-82]
1970
U (Stack)Rabone, John, & Son
Instructions for the Use of the Practical Engineers' & Mechanics' Improved Slide Rule, as Arranged by J. Routledge, Engineer, ...
Latest edition, with alterations and corrections. Birmingham: John Rabone & Son, n.d. [c.1867]. Facsimile reprint, with historical note by Kenneth D. Roberts. Fitzwilliam: Ken Roberts Publishing Co., April 1983. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1984-70]
1983
U (Stack)Ramskou, Thorkild
Solstenen: Primitiv Navigation i Norden for Kompasset
Copenhagen: Rhodos, 1969. (English summary pp. 83-96.)
[1972-50]
1969
U (Stack)Rawlings, Alfred; Hogg, Warrington; Cross, Launcelot
The Book of Old Sundials & their Mottoes with eight illustrations in colour by Alfred Rawlings and thirty-six drawings of some famous sundials by Warrington Hogg
London, Edinburgh, & Boston: T. N. Foulis, Publisher, October 1914. (Introductory essay "Old Sundials" by Launcelot Cross, pp. 3-24).
[1982-176]
1914
U (Stack)Raznoexport USSR Moscow
Visual Study Aids
Trade catalogue. Moscow: Raznoexport, [195- ?] Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[Unknown]
195-?
U (Stack)Rhind, W. G.
The Magnet - The Life of the Mariner's Compass
London: Samuel Bagster and Sons, 15, Paternoster Row; James Nisbet & Co., Berner's Street. 1853. Formerly in the Patent Office Library (removed 21st May, 1919)
[Unknown]
1853
U (Stack)Rhodius, J.
De Acia Dissertatio ad Cornelii Celsi mentem qua simul universa Fibulae ratio explicatur, Secundis Curis ex autographo Autoris auctior & emendatior, cum Judiciis Doctorum edita a Th. Bartholino. Accedit de Ponderibus et Mensuris eiusdem Authoris Dissertatio, & Vita Celsi
Hafniae, typis Matthiae Godicchenii, sumptibus Petri Hauboldi, Reg. Acad. Bibl. Anno 1672. 4to. On permanent loan from University College, Oxford (R.15.18)
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1672
U (Stack)Rhodius, John
De Ponderibus et Mensuris Veterum Medicorum Inprimis Cornelii Celsi Dissertatio Posthuma In Lucem protracta a Th. Bartholino
Accedit Vita Celsi, & Judicia Doctorum de Acia Rhodiana. Hafniae: Literis Matthiae Godicchenii, Sumptibus Petri Hauboldi, 1672. Bound with: RHODIUS, John, De Acia Dissertatio ...
[Unknown]
1672
U (Stack)Richards, G. Tilghman
The History and Development of Typewriters
Science Museum, London. (Handbook & catalogue.) Second edition. (Revised by W. E. Church.) London: HMSO., 1964. 2 copies; Shelved under Science Museum.
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1964
U (Stack)Richards, G. Tilghman (George Tilghman), 1883-
Handbook of the collection illustrating typewriters : a brief outline of the history and development of the correspondence typewriter with reference to the national collection, and descriptions of the exhibits
London : H.M.S.O., 1948. Millburn bequest. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
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1948
U (Stack)Robertson, J.
A Treatise of such Mathematical Instruments, as are usually put into a Portable Case: containing their various Uses in Arithmetic, Geometry, Trigonometry, Architecture, Surveying, etc. etc. Designed for the Benefit of Engineers, Architects, Surveyors, and for Young Students in the Mathematics. To which is prefixed, a Short Account of the Authors who have treated on the Proportional Compasses and Sector
London: Printed for T. Heath, Mathematical Instrumentmaker, ... J. Hodges, ... and J. Fuller ... 1747. 8vo.
[1947- ]
1747
U (Stack)Robins, Benjamin, 1707-1751
New principles of gunnery
1st ed. [1742] reprinted; [with a] new introduction by W. S. Curtis. Richmond [Surrey] : Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd, 1972. Millburn bequest.
[2007-107]
1972
U (Stack)Romano, Bartolomeo
Proteo Militare, diviso in tre Libri; nel primo si descrive la Fabrica di detto Proteo ... nel secondo e terzo si tratta dell'Uso di detto Istrumento ... S'insegna ancora l'Arte del Navigare
Naples, G. J. Carlino & A. Pace, 1595. 4to. Title page missing. ?1595 edition. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
1595?
U (Stack)Rosinska, Grazyna
Instrumenty Astronomiczne na Uniwersytecie Krakowskim W XV Wieku
Studia Copernicana XI. Polish Acadamy of Science - Zaklad Historii Nauki I Techniki. 1974.
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1974
U (Stack)Rossi, Giovanni
Groma e squadro: ovvero Storia dell'agrimensura italiana
Turin, 1877. 220 pp.
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1877
U (Stack)Sarma, Sreeramula R.
Sanskrit astronomical instruments in the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
Vadodara : Oriental Institute, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, 2009. M.S. University Oriental Series no. 24 Presented by the author.
[2014-90]
2009
U (Stack)Saul, Edward
An Historical and Philosophical Account of the Barometer, or Weather-Glass. Wherein the Reason and Use of that Instrument, the Theory of the Atmosphere, and the Causes of its different Gravitation, are Assign'd and Explain'd. And a Modest Attempt from thence made towards a rational Account and probable Judgment of the Weather
The Second Edition, Corrected. London: Printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, at the Red-Lyon in Pater-Noster-Row. 1735. 8vo. 2 copies (one paper bound, other bound in boards).
[1960-13]
1735
U (Stack)Saul, Edward
An Historical and Philosophical Account of the Barometer, or Weather-Glass. ... Are Assigned and Explained ...
The Third Edition, Corrected. London: Printed for L. Hawes, W. Clarke, and R. Collins, at the Red-Lion, in Pater-noster-row; and sold by S. Johnson, Optician, in Ludgate-street. 1766. 8vo. (Bound in boards).
[Unknown]
1766
U (Stack)Scheiner, C.
Pantographice, sev ars Delineandi res Quaslibet per Parallelogrammum Lineare sev Cavum, Mechanicum, Mobile; Libellis duobus explicata, & Demonstrationibus Geometricis illustrata: quorum Prior Epipedographicen, sive Planorum, Posterior Stereographicen, sev Solidorum aspectabilium viuam imitationem atque projectionem edocet
Romae, Ex Typographia Ludovici Grignani. 1631. 4to. From the Radcliffe Observatory
[Unknown]
1631
U (Stack)Schott, Gaspar
Technica Curiosa, sive Mirabilia Artis ...
Herbipol: Wolfgangi Mauritii Endteri, 1687; (Slightly repaired leather binding); S. P. Rigaud's copy, from the library of the Radcliffe Observatory
[Unknown]
1687
U (Stack)Schott, Gaspar
Mechanica Hydraulico-Pneumatica ...
Herbipoli: Joannis Godefridi Schonwetteri, 1657; Bound with Schola Steganographica ... (1665); (Vellum binding)
[Unknown]
1657
U (Stack)Schott, Gaspar
Magia Universalis Naturae et Artis, Sive Recondita naturalium & artificialium rerum scientia, cujus ope per variam applicationem activorum cum passivis, admirandorum effectuum spectacula, abditarumq' inventionum miracula, ad varios humanae vitae usus, eruuntur
Herbipoli: Joannis Godefridi Schonwetteri, 1657; Half-title preceding engraved title dated 1658 [date of issue of Parts III and IV]; all four Parts bound together, in three pagination sequences (Parts III and IV continuously paginated); (Vellum binding, with extensive MS on spine)
[Unknown]
1657
U (Stack)Schott, Gaspar
Magiae Universalis Naturae et Artis, Pars III. & IV. ...
Herbipoli: Joannis Godefridi Schonwetteri, 1658; Includes instructions to the binder and other preliminaries; continuous pagination; (Repaired leather binding); Presented by John Johnson Esq.
[Unknown]
1658
U (Stack)Schott, Gaspar
Schola Steganographica ...
Norimbergae / Herbipol: Johannis Andreae Endteri, & Wolfgangi, 1665; Bound with it: Mechanica Hydraulico-Pneumatica ... (1657); (Vellum binding)
[Unknown]
1665
U (Stack)Schramm, Helmut (ed.)
Astronomische Instrumente: Katalog
Staatlicher Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon Dresden Zwinger. Dresden: Staatlicher Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon, n.d. [?1989]. Presented by Dr Joachim Schardin Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1990-145]
1989?
U (Stack)Schumacher, Heinz; Peitz, Heinz
Sonnenuhren: 303 Beispiele aus 12 Laendern
Volume 3. Munich : Callwey, 1981. Part of donation from Christopher Daniel, July 2013.
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1981
U (Stack)Science Museum
Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections in the Science Museum South Kensington with Descriptive and Historical Notes: Machine Tools
Board of Education. London: HMSO., 1920. Shelved under Science Museum.
[Unknown]
1920
U (Stack)Science Museum
Catalogue of the Collections in the Science Museum South Kensington with Descriptive and Historical Notes and Illustrations: Meteorology
Board of Education. London: HMSO., 1922. 2 copies Shelved under Science Museum.
[Unknown]
1922
U (Stack)Science Museum
Catalogue of the Collections for Teaching and Research in the Science Museum, South Kensington. Part II. Physics
Board of Education. Second edition. London: HMSO., 1905. 2 copies Shelved under Science Museum. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[Unknown]
1905
U (Stack)Science Museum
Catalogue of the Collections in the Science Museum South Kensington, with descriptive and historical notes and illustrations: Meteorology
London, 1922
[Unknown]
1922
U (Stack)Science Museum
Various titles
Small leaflets (shelved in folder of A4-size leaflets): "Henry Maudslay: bicentenary exhibition" 1971; "Scientific Toys: special exhibition" December 1971 - Easter 1972; "Telecommunications Gallery (Gallery 66 Third Floor)" 1971
[Unknown]
1971
U (Stack)Scott, Benjamin
The Description and Use of an Universal and Perpetual Mathematical Instrument. Shewing the most Expeditious and Exact Method of solving all practical Questions in Arithmetick, Trigonometry, Navigation, Dyalling, Astronomy, etc.
London: H. Whitridge, 1733.
[Unknown]
1733
U (Stack)Sedley, Charles
Bellamira, or the Mistress, A Comedy: as it is Acted by Their Majesties Servants
Written by the Honourable Charles Sedley Baronet. London: Printed by D. Mallet, for L.C. and Timothy Goodwin, at the Maiden-Head over against St. Dunstans Church in Fleet-Street. 1687. 4to. Bound with and filed under Robert Hooke, "A Description of Helioscopes".
[Unknown]
1687
U (Stack)Sedley, Sir Charles
Bellamira, or the Mistress, A comedy: As it is acted by their Majesties Servants
London: Printed by D. Mallet, for L.C. and Timothy Goodwin, at the Maiden-Head over against St Dunstans Church in Fleet-Street, 1687. Bound with and shelved under Hooke, A Description of Helioscopes. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6]
1687
U (Stack)Seleshnikov, S. I.
Istoriya kalendarya i ego Predstoyshchaya reforma
(Leningrad, 1962) Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1962-140]
1962
U (Stack)Seller, John
Practical Navigation or an Introduction to the whole Art, containing many useful Geometrical Definitions and Problems; ... The Use of Instruments: The Azimuth-Compass and Ring-Dial. The Fore-Staff, Quadrant, and Nocturnal; The Plain - Scale, Gunter's - Scale, Plain - Chart, Mercator's - Chart, both Globes, and Virtues of the Loadstone ... All carefully Corrected with many useful Additions
By John Seller, Hydrographer to the King. London: Printed for William Mount, and Thomas Page, in Postern-Row, on Tower-Hill, 1739. 4to. Formerly the property of Richard Goldfinch
[Unknown]
1739
U (Stack)Seymour, Henry
The Reproduction of Sound: Being a description of the mechanical appliances and technical processes employed in the art
London: W.B. Tattersel Ltd., n.d.
[1976-43]
[n.d.]
U (Stack)Siebert, Han
Zahnrader
Wiesbaden, 1962 Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1969-156]
1962
U (Stack)Sikes, Bartholomew
Sikes' Tables of the Concentrated Strength of Spirits with Directions for the Use of his Hydrometer: Established throughout the United Kingdom for Estimating the Duties on Spirtuous Liquors by Act of Parliament, 58 Geo. III., cap. 28: To Which is Added Tables of Specific Gravity Adapted to the Use of the Hydrometer
[s.l.]: [s.n.]: [1817?].
[Unknown]
1817?
U (Stack)Sikes, Bartholomew
Sikes' Tables of the Concentrated Strength of Spirits with Directions for Using his Hydrometer: Established throughout the United Kingdom for Estimating the Duties on Spirtuous Liquors by Act of Parliament, 58 Geo. III., cap. 28.
18th ed. London: Thomas O'Dempsey Buss, 1883.
[1969-46/2]
1883
U (Stack)Simms, Frederick W.
A Treatise on the Principal Mathematical Instruments employed in Surveying, Levelling, and Astronomy: explaining their Construction, Adjustments, and Use: with an Appendix, and Tables
Sixth Edition. Messrs. Troughton and Simms, 138 Fleet Street, London. 1844. Inscribed "Leut. W. A. Brown, R. N."
[1945- ]
1844
U (Stack)Simms, Frederick W.
Simms's Instruments and Levelling
Three works bound together under the title Simms's Instruments and Levelling: (1) A treatise on the principal mathematical instruments employed in Surveying, Levelling, and Astronomy ... (London, 1844); (2) Catalogue of Instruments made by Troughton and Simms ... (London, n.d.); (3) A treatise on the principles and practice of Levelling ... (London, 1843).
[1967-247]
1843-1844?
U (Stack)Simms, Frederick W.
A treatise on the principal mathematical instruments employed in Surveying, Levelling, and Astronomy ...
London: 1844. Bound with two other works under the title Simms's Instruments and Levelling: (1) this work; (2) Catalogue of Instruments made by Troughton and Simms ... (London, n.d.); (3) A treatise on the principles and practice of Levelling ... (London, 1843).
[1967-247]
1843
U (Stack)Simms, Frederick W.
A treatise on the principles and practice of Levelling ...
London: 1843. Bound with two other works under the title Simms's Instruments and Levelling: (1) A treatise on the principal mathematical instruments employed in Surveying, Levelling, and Astronomy ... (London, 1844); (2) Catalogue of Instruments made by Troughton and Simms ... (London, n.d.); (3) this work.
[1967-247]
1843
U (Stack)Simms, W. H.
The Sextant and its Applications; Including the Correction of Observations for Instrumental Errors, and the Determination of Latitude, Time, and Longitude by Various Methods on Land and at Sea, with Examples and Tables
London: Troughton and Simms, ... and Taylor and Francis, 1858.
[1984-171]
1858
U (Stack)Six, James
The Construction and Use of a Thermometer, for shewing the extremes of Temperature in the Atmosphere, during the Observer's Absence. Together with Experiments on the Variations of Local Heat; and other Meteorological Observations.
Maidstone: printed and Sold by J. Blake; and Messrs. G.&T. Wilkie, London. n.d. [1794]. 8vo.
[Unknown]
1794?
U (Stack)Six, James
The Construction and Use of a Thermometer, for shewing the extremes of Temperature in the Atmosphere, During the Observer's Absence. (1794)
Prefaced by an Account of his Life & Works and the Use of his Thermometer over Two Hundred Years by Jill Austin & Anita McConnell. London: Nimbus Books, 1980.
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U (Stack)Skentelbery, Norman, 1896-
A history of the Ordnance Board
[London : Ordnance Board Press, 1965-1967]. 2 v. in 1; no title page. Millburn bequest.
[2007-288]
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U (Stack)South Kensington Museum [Science Museum]
Catalogue of the Special Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus at the South Kensington Museum. MDCCCLXXVI
Science and Art Department of the Committee of Council on Education. Third Edition. (Presentation copy. November, 1877). London: Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, for H. M. Stationery Office, 1877. Formerly the property of Radcliffe Observatory
[Unknown]
1877
U (Stack)South Kensington Museum [Science Museum]
Conferences held in connection with the Special Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus. 1876. Physics and Mechanics
Published for the Lords of the Committee of Council on Education by Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly. (Presentation Copy. December, 1877). From the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford
[Unknown]
1877
U (Stack)South Kensington Museum [Science Museum]
Conferences held in connection with the Special Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus. 1876. Chemistry, Biology, Physical Geography, Geology, Mineralogy, and Meteorology
Published for the Lords of the Committee of Council on Education by Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly. (Presentation Copy. December, 1877). Formerly the property of the Radcliffe Observatory
[Unknown]
1877
U (Stack)Special Catalogue of the Joint Exhibition of German Mechanicians and Opticians
Special Catalogue of the Joint Exhibition of German Mechanicians and Opticians
International Exposition Paris 1900. Berlin: Reichsdruckerei, 1900. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
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1900
U (Stack)Spencer Jones, Sir Harold
"Orreries and Planetariums"
in Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, vol. 36 part 3 no. 164, 1957, pp. 685-701.
[1967- ]
1957
U (Stack)Stanley, William Ford
Mathematical Drawing and Measuring Instruments, their Construction, Uses, Qualities, Selection, Preservation, and Suggestions for Improvements, with Hints upon Drawing, Colouring, Lettering, Etc.
Sixth edition (first, 1866). London: E. & F. N. Spon & the Author, 1888. Contains pp. 337-346: Price List of the Instruments Described, made by the author, And Sold at 4 & 5, Great Turnstile, Holborn, London, W.C.
[Unknown]
1888
U (Stack)Stanley, William Ford
Mathematical Drawing and Measuring Instruments, their Construction, Uses, Qualities, Selection, Preservation, and Suggestions for Improvements, with Hints upon Drawing, Colouring, Calculating, Sun Printing, Lettering, &c.
7th edition. London: E. & F. N. Spon; New York: Spon & Chamberlain; & the Author, 1900. Includes 'Price List of the Instruments Described, made by the author, And Sold at 4 & 5 Great Turnstile, Holborn, London, W.C.', pp. 359-370. Formerly the property of Richard Inwards (*)
[Unknown]
1900
U (Stack)Steele, Richard, Sir, 1672-1729
The Englishman: Being the Sequel of the Guardian.
Anonymous. London: Printed by Sam Buckley in Amen-Corner, 1714.
[1940-6/ ]
1714
U (Stack)Steele, Richard, Sir, 1672-1729
The Englishman : being the sequel of the Guardian
London : Printed by Sam. Buckley in Amen-Corner, 1714. Millburn bequest.
[2007-315]
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U (Stack)Stevenson, Edward Luther, 1858-1944
Terrestrial and celestial globes : their history and construction, including a consideration of their value as aids in the study of geography and astronomy
2 vols. Publications of the Hispanic Society of America ; no. 86 New York ; London : Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1971. Photolitho reprint of 1921 edition, published for the Hispanic Society of America by the Yale U.P., New Haven. Millburn bequest. Missing, December 2018.
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1971
U (Stack)Stimson, Alan ; Daniel, Christopher St. J. H.
The cross staff : historical development and modern use
London : Harriet Wynter, 1977. Millburn bequest.
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U (Stack)Stofler, Joannis
Cosmographicae Aliquot Descriptiones
Ioannis Stofleri Iustingen Mathematici insignis. Omnia recens data per Io. Dryandrum; Marpurgi. 1537. Apud Lucharium Ceruicoznum.
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1537
U (Stack)Stokley, James
"The Rittenhouse Exhibition"
in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, vol. LVI no. 223, July 1932, pp. 236-248. (Held in the rooms of The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, April 4-23, 1932, in connection with the Rittenhouse Bicentenary Celebration, April 8-9.) Shelved under Babb.
[Unknown]
1932
U (Stack)Stretch, Carolyn Wood
"Early Colonial Clockmakers in Philadelphia"
in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, vol. LVI no. 223, July 1932, pp. 225-235. An address delivered at the Rittenhouse Bicentenary Dinner ... April 8, 1932, in the hall of The Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Shelved under Babb.
[Unknown]
1932
U (Stack)Svensson, Sigfrid
Bondens ar: Kalender och markesdagar, hushallsregler och vaderleksmarken
(1st edition, 1945). Stockholm: LTs forlag, 1972. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
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1972
U (Stack)Swammerdam, Jan; Tyson, Edward.
Ephemeri Vita: or the Natual History and Anatomy of the Ephemeron, a fly that lives but five hours
Written originally in Low-Dutch by Jo. Swammerdam, M.D. of Amsterdam. London: Printed for Henry Faithorne, and John Kersey, at the Rose in St Paul's Church-yard, 1681. Bound with and shelved under Hooke, A Description of Helioscopes. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6]
1681
U (Stack)Sweeny, James O.
Three hundred years of British calendar medals : 1650 to 1960 : based on holdings of the American Numismatic Society, listings in the Whitmore Catalogs, listings in the Fuld Catalog, and various private collections
[S.l. : s.n.], 2003.
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2003
U (Stack)Swinden, J. H. Van
Beschrijving van het Rijks-Planetarum te Franeker, van 1773 tot 1780 uitgedacht en vervaardigd door Eise Eisinga
Derde, met Bijvoegsels en Afbeeldingen Vermeerderde, druk, voorafgegaan door het Leven van Eisinga en eene Geschiedenis van zijn Planetarium, door W. Eekhoff. Te Schoonhoven, bij S. E. van Nooten. 1851.
[Unknown]
1851
U (Stack)Szaszdi Nagy, Adam
Un Mundo que Descubrio Colon: Las rustas del comercio prehispanico de los metales
Cuadernos Colombinos XII. Valladolid, Espana: Casa-Museo de Colon: Seminario Americanista de la Universidad de Valladolid, 1984. Presented by Professor Gerard L'E. Turner.
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U (Stack)Tadic, Milutin
Sundials
In Cyrillic. Beograd : Zevodza udzbenoke : nastavna sredstva, 2002. Part of donation from Christopher Daniel, July 2013. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
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2002
U (Stack)Talbot, Stuart
Culpeper's 'Slyding Heads' of c. 1710. His optical legacy in shutter-cap and lens-cell design
Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society : 108 (2011).
[2014-50]
2011
U (Stack)Tartaglia, Niccolo
"Primo Libro di Archimede de Insidentibus Aquae Dechiarata in Volgare"
(also headed "Primo Ragionamento ..."); in Tartaglia's Regola Generale ... (Venice, 1562), beginning signature E2v. (Preface dated Venice, 1562; forms the first 'Ragionamento' appended to the work cited, which is actually (part of) Travagliata Inventione).
[Unknown]
1562
U (Stack)Tartaglia, Niccolo
Regola Generale di Solevare Ognifondata Nave & navilii con Ragione
(No title page or prelims). [Colophon:] ... In Vinegia, Per Curtio Troiano de i Navo, 1562. 4o. Signatures A-H (colophon on H4r), no page/folio numbers, missing preliminary signature; this work is actually (part of) Travagliata Inventione; bound with Quesiti et Inventioni Diverse. R. T. Gunther Collection
[Unknown]
1562
U (Stack)Tartaglia, Niccolo
[Travagliata Inventione]
(No title page or prelims.; first page headed "Regola Generale di Solevare Ognifondata Nave & navilii con Ragione"). [Colophon:] ... In Vinegia, Per Curtio Troiano de i Navo, 1562. [See entry for Regola Generale ...].
[Unknown]
1562
U (Stack)Tartaglia, Niccolo
La Nova Scientia de Nicolo Tartaglia con una gionta al terzo Libro
(Preface dated Venice, 1537). [No imprint on title page; colophon:] In Vinegia, 1558. 4to. Preliminary signature + sigs. A-H, 4 preliminary folios + ff. 1-32v, probably complete; bound with Quesiti et Inventioni Diverse, the prelims. being misbound between sigs. A and B of Quesiti. R. T. Gunther Collection
[Unknown]
1558
U (Stack)Tartaglia, Niccolo
Quesiti et Inventioni Diverse de Nicolo Tartaglia, di novo restampati con una gionta al sesto libro, ...
[Title page:] Appresso de l'Auttore, 1554; [Colophon:] In Venetia per Nicolo de Bascarini, ad instantia & requisitione, & a proprie spese de Nicolo Tartaglia Autore ..., 1554. 4o. Signatures A-II, folios 1-128v + 1 folding illustration, complete; bound with it are La Nova Scientia and Regola Generale ..., the prelims. of the former being misbound between sigs. A and B of Quesiti. R. T. Gunther Collection
[Unknown]
1554
U (Stack)Tartaglia, Niccolo
"Secondo Ragionamento ..."
in Tartaglia's Regola Generale ... (Venice, 1562), beginning signature G3r. (Preface dated 1551; forms the second 'Ragionamento' appended to the work cited, which is actually (part of) Travagliata Inventione).
[Unknown]
1562
U (Stack)Tartaglia, Niccolo
"Primo Ragionamento ..."
in Tartaglia's Regola Generale ... (Venice, 1562). [See entry for "Primo Libro di Archimede ..."].
[Unknown]
1562
U (Stack)Taylor, Brook
New Principles of Linear Perspective: or the Art of Designing On a Plane, the Representations of all sorts of objects, in a more General and Simple Method than has been hitherto done
Third edition. Revised and corrected by John Colson. London: for John Ward, 1749. Bound with Martin, Air-Pump, and other works.
[Unknown]
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U (Stack)Taylor, Frank A.
Catalog of the Mechanical Collections of the Division of Engineering, United States National Museum
Bulletin 173 of the United States National Museum. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. 1939.
[Unknown]
1939
U (Stack)Taylor, J.
Thesaurarium Mathematicae: or the Treasury of the Mathematicks. Containing variety of useful Practices in Arithmetick, Geometry, Trigonometry, Astronomy, Geography, Navigation and Surveying. As also the Mensuration of Board, Glass, Tiling, Paving, Timber, Stone and Irregular Solids. Likewise it teacheth the Art of Gauging, Dialling, Fortification, Military-Orders and Gunnery: Explains the Logarithms, Sines, Tangents, and Secants: Shewith their use in Arithmetick, etc. To which is annex'd a Table of 10000 Logarithms, Log-Sines and Log-Tangents
Originally Compos'd by J. Taylor, Gent. And now carefully Revis'd and Corrected. To which is added, ... by W. Alingham, Teacher of the Mathematicks. Printed by J. L. for W. Freeman, at the Bible against the Middle-Temple-Gate in Fleetstreet. 1707. 8vo. Formerly the property of G. Fellows, Henry Hewitt, William Coats, E. Graham-Harrison, E. Luce; Gunther Loan Collection
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U (Stack)Tekeli, Sevim
"Mechul bir yazarin Istanbul Rasathanesinin aletlerinin tasvirini veren Alat-l Rasadiye li Zic-i Sehinsahiye adli makalesi"
in Arastirma [Ankara Universitesi] Dil ve Tarih-Cografya Fakultesi Felsefe Arastirmalari Enstitusu dergisi, vol. 1, 1963.
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U (Stack)Thom, A.
Megalithic Sites in Britain
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967.
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U (Stack)Thom, A.
Megalithic Lunar Observatories
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971.
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U (Stack)Thom, A.; Thom, A. S.
Megalithic Remains in Britain and Brittany
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978.
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U (Stack)Titius, I. D.
Thermometri metallici
Leipzig, 1765.
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U (Stack)Tomlinson, Charles
Illustrations of the Useful Arts. II. The Manufacture of a Pin
Third Edition. London: A. N. Myers & Co., 1868. Presented by A. E. Gunther Esq.
[1980-58]
1868
U (Stack)Tomlinson, H. C.
Guns and government : the Ordnance Office under the later Stuarts
Royal Historical Society studies in history ; no. 15 London : Royal Historical Society, 1979. A revision of the author's thesis. Millburn bequest.
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1979
U (Stack)Turner, Gerard L'E.
Antique Scientific Instruments
Poole, Dorset: Blandford Press, 1980. (Paperback edition). Blandford Colour Series. Presented by the author
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U (Stack)Universita di Padua
Curiosity and Ingenuity: Scientific Collections and Experimental Method in Eighteenth-Century Padova
[Padova: Universita degli Studi di Padova, Centro Musei scientifici, 1995?]. Gift of Universita di Padua. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
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U (Stack)Van Riemsdijk, John; Sharp, Paul
In the Science Museum
London: HMSO., 1968.
[Unknown]
1968
U (Stack)Vanecek, Jan
Pocatky paroplavby a vyznam Resslovy vrtule pro jeji vyvoj
Prague, 1938
[1966-262]
1938
U (Stack)Various authors
Various titles [auction sale catalogues]
Photocopies (bound in 2 volumes) of a collection of auction sale catalogues of collections and stock-in-trades of scientific instruments, 1769-1795 (the originals belonging to the Royal Microscopical Society), as follows: James Short - Langford & Son, 1769; John Uring - T. Aldersey & S. Martin, 1773; Benjamin Martin - Herring, 1782; Mr L. [William Ludlam (d. 1788)]; John Latimer Morton - Graham, 1789; William Russell; Michael Taylor; John Lewis Petit - Leigh & Sotheby, 1790; General Roy - Christie, 1790; Larcum Kendall - Christie, 1790; Edward Ellicott - Skinner & Dyke (at Merton, Surrey), 1791; Henry Pyefinch - Chapman, 1791; Nicholas Meredith - Graham, 1793; John Smeaton - Herring, 1793; A gentleman - Graham, 1793; The Earl of Bute - Skinner & Dyke, 1793; John Earl of Bute (chemical laboratory) - Skinner & Dyke, 1793; Samuel Dunn - Leigh & Sotheby, 1794; William Boyse - Griffith & Co., 1794; Two scientific & mechanical gentlemen - Christie, 1794; John Field - Fletcher, 1795; Hurter & Haas - Christie, 1795. Transcription of some of these catalogues at http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/library/auctions.htm
[1966-132]
1769-1795
U (Stack)Vasil'eva, V. N.; Glinki, V. M. (eds.)
Pamjatniki Russkoj Kul'tury: Pervoj Cetverti XVIII Veka: v Sobranii Gosudarstvennogo Ordena Lenina Ermitaza
Katalog. Leningrad & Moskva: Nzdatel'stvo "Sovetskij Hudoznik", 1966.
[1966-163]
1966
U (Stack)Venetsianos, Panagiotis
Pocketbook of the gauge marks : a guide to the numerous special marks found on slide rules
Pleasanton, Calif. : Oughtred Society, c2006.
[2007-6]
2006?
U (Stack)Victoria and Albert Museum
Catalogue of the Science Collections for Teaching and Research in the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington. Physiography, Part II. Meteorology, including Terrestrial Magnetism
Board of Education, South Kensington. London: HMSO, 1900. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[Unknown]
1900
U (Stack)Voch, Lukas
Die Kunst Sonnenuhren auf das Papier oder eine Mauer
Augsburg: Matthaus Rieger, 1778. Callwey Reprint, 1978. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1978-689]
1978
U (Stack)Wakely, Andrew
The Mariner's Compass Rectified. Containing Tables, shewing the true Hour of the Day, the Sun being upon any Point of the Compass: With the true Time of the Rising and Setting of the Sun and Stars, and the Points of the Compass upon which they rise and set: With Tables of Amplitudes. Which Tables of Sun-Dials, Semidiurnal Arches and Amplitudes are calculated from the Equator to 60 Degrees of Latitude, either North or South. With the Description and Use of those Instruments most in Practice in the Art of Navigation. Also a Table of Latitudes and Longitudes of Places
By Andrew Wakely, Mathematician. Enlarged with many useful Additions, by J. Atkinson. The Whole revised, and carefully corrected, with accurate Tables of the Sun's Declination, adjusted to the N.S. By W. Mountaine, Mathematical Examiner to the Hon. Corporation of Trinity-House of Deptford Strond, and F.R.S London: Printed for J. Mount, T. Page, and W. Mount on Tower-hill; Where may be had all Sorts of Sea-Books, 1779. 8vo.
[Unknown]
1779
U (Stack)Walton, Steven A.
Instrumental in war : science, research, and instruments : between knowledge and the world
Leiden : Brill, 2005. Presented by the editor.
[2007-416]
2005
U (Stack)Ward, F. A. B.
Handbook of the Collections Illustrating Time Measurement: Part I. - Historical Review
Board of Education, Science Museum. London: HMSO., 1936.
[Unknown]
1936
U (Stack)Ward, F. A. B.
Descriptive Catalogue of the Collection Illustrating Time Measurement
Science Museum. London: HMSO, 1966.
[1981-121]
1966
U (Stack)Webster, William
The Description and Use Of a Complete Sett or Case of Pocket-Instruments: containing the Construction of the several Lines laid down on the Plain-Scale, and Sector; with their Applicatio Application, in variety of Mathematical Problems
The Fourth Edition, Corrected. London: for H. Woodfall, J. Rivington, L. Hawes & Co. R. Horsfield, S. Crowder, T. Caslon, T. Longman, J. Pritchard, C. and R. Ware, and W. Nicol, 1768.
[Unknown]
1768
U (Stack)Westcott, G. F.
Handbook of the Collections Illustrating Pumping Machinery: Part I.-Historical Notes
Science Museum, South Kensington. London: HMSO., 1932. Shelved under Science Museum.
[Unknown]
1932
U (Stack)Wheldon, H. J.
Business Statistics and Statistical Method
4th ed. Completely revised by G. L. Thirkettle. London: Macdonald and Evans, 1957. N.B. "Mechanical Aids to Computation": pp. 25-36.
[2005-172]
1957
U (Stack)Whiston, William, 1667-1752
The longitude and latitude found by the inclinatory or dipping needle; wherein the laws of magnetism are also disover'd. To which is prefix'd, an historical preface; and to which is subjoin'd, Mr. Robert Norman's New attractive, or account of the first invention of the dipping needle.
London: printed for J. Senex, at the Globe in Salisbury Court; and W. Taylor, at the Ship in Pater-Noster-Row, MDCCXXI (1721).
[Unknown]
1721
U (Stack)Whittell, Thomas; Duncombe, John
A Treatise upon the Dendrometer, a New-invented Instrument for the more certain and ready Measurement of Standing Timber, by Inspection only: for facilitating the practical Operations of Engineering, Land-surveying, Levelling, Mineing, etc. and for performing mechanically the various Cases of Plane Trigonometry, by a short and familiar Process, without Calculation
By the King's Patent. London, Printed for the Patentees: and sold by F. Newbery, and others. ... 1766 or 1767. 8vo.
[Unknown]
1766?
U (Stack)Wilkins, J.
Mathematical Magick: or, the Wonders that may be performed by Mechanical Geometry
In Two Books. Concerning Mechanical Powers. Motions. Being one of the most easie, pleasant, useful (and yet most neglected) part of Mathematicks. Not before treated of in this Language. London: Printed for Edw. Gellibrand at the Golden Ball in St. Pauls Church-yard. 1680. 8vo. Inscribed 'E Libris Edvardi Barker CCCC'.
[Unknown]
1680
U (Stack)Wilkins, John (J. W.)
Mathematicall Magick. Or, the Wonders that may be performed by Mechanicall Geometry
In two Books. Concerning Mechanicall Powers. Motions. Being one of the most easie, pleasant, usefull, and yet most neglected) part of Mathematicks. Not before treated of in this language by J. W. M.A. London, printed by M. F. for Sa. Gellibrand at the brasen Serpent in Pauls Church-yard. 1648. 8vo. (First edition). Inscribed "John Elias his Book". Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
1648
U (Stack)Wissner, Adolf
"Astronomische und matematische Instrumente im Deutschen Museum zu Munchen"
in Sudhoffs Archiv fur Geschichte der Medizin und der Naturwissenschaften 42(3), 1958, pp. 227-236
[1961-45]
1958
U (Stack)Wright, G.
The Description and Use of a new constructed Sextant and Quintant, by His Majesty's Patent; being an Improvement on the Hadley's Quadrant. By which Angular Distances are measured to the greatest Precision, from 0'. to 150o. without inverting the Instrument in measuring to the Right or Left, and with double the Space of Illumination, or Field of View: also a correct Method of Adjusting the Glasses, and applying the Instrument for the Purposes of finding the Latitude and Longitude at Sea. ...
A New Edition. London: Printed for Messrs. Gregory and Wright, Opticians, no. 148, Leaden-Hall-Street, 1787. 8vo. R. S. Clay's copy (purchase)
[1949- ]
1787
U (Stack)Wright, G.
The Description and Use of both the Globes and the Armillary Sphere and Orrery ...
London: [manuscript imprint of] William Watkins Optician ..., 1783.
[1993-14]
1783
U (Stack)Wu Ta-Ch'eng
[Ku Yu T'u K'Ao]: A Study Of Ancient Jades
Lithop. 4 Ts'e. Shanghai, 1889.
[1976-92]
1889
U (Stack)Wunderlich, Herbert, 1905-
Das Dresdner "Quadratum geometricum" aus dem Jahre 1569 von Christoph Schissler d.A., Augsburg, mit einem Anhang : Schisslers Oxforder und Florentiner "Ouadratum geometricum" von 1579/1599
Berlin : VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, 1960. Veroffentlichungen des Staatlichen Mathematisch-Physikalischen Salons, Forschungsstelle, Dresden-Zwinger ; Bd. 1 Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1961-65]
1960
U (Stack)Young, Andrew
History of Burntisland: Scottish Burgh Life more Particularly in the Time of the Stuarts
Second Edition (1924) with Additional Illustrations, Numerous Corrections, and Considerable Additional Matter. Printed by the Fifeshire Advertiser Ltd., Kirkcaldy. NB: illustrations of navigational instruments in the panels of the East Sailors' Gallery. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
1924
U (Stack)Zevenboom, K. M.; Koning, D. A. Wittop
Nederlandse Gewichten: stelsels, ijkwezen, vormen, makers en merken
1953. Mededeling no. 86 uit het Rijksmuseum voor de Geschiedenis der Natuurwetenschappen te Leiden. Uitgegeven met steun van het Genootschap voor de Geschiedenis der Geneeskunde, Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1954- ]
1953
U (Stack)Zinner, Ernst
Alte Sonnenuhren an Europaischen Gebauden
Boethius. Texte und Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der exakten Wissenschaften, vol. III; Wiesbaden, 1964
[1964-52]
1964
U (Stack)Zubler, Leonhard
Nova Geometrica Pyrobolia: Neuwe Geometrische Buchsenmeisterern: Das ist: Grundtlicher Bericht, wie man durch ein neuw Geometrisch Instrument, mit sonderer behendigkeit, jedes Geschuz klein oder gross, ben tag oder nacht nit allein richten, sonder zugleich auch desselben hoche unnd weite massen soll: ...
Basel: 1614. (Bound with Zubler, Novum Instrumentum Geometricum).
[Unknown]
1614
U (Stack)Zubler, Leonhard
Fabrica et Usus Instrumenti Chorographici: Das ist, Newe Planimetrische Beschzeibung: Wie man mit einem leichten vn geringen Instrument alle Statt, Carten, Wenher und Landschafften, jedes in seingewisse Lagerstatt und Proportion auffreissen und verjungen soll.
Mit XV. verstendtlichen schonen Kupfferstucken gezieret und erklart: ... . Basel: Ludwig Konigs, 1607. (Bound with Zubler, Novum Instrumentum Geometricum).
[Unknown]
1607
U (Stack)Zubler, Leonhard
Novum Instrumentum Geometricum: Das ist, Kurtzer und grundtlicher Bericht, alle Weite, Breite, Hohe und Zieffe, mit sonderharem Vortheil, kunstlichen und gewiss, auch von der Arithmetic unerfahrnen abzumessen:
Mit XXII. schonen, kunstreichen und verstandtlichen Kupfferstucken geziert und erklart: Auch dem Kunstliebenden zugefallen, an jetzo erstlich an tag geben. Basel: Ludwig Konigs, 1607. (Bound with it are: Fabrica et Usus Instrumenti Chorographici, and Nova Geometrica Pyrobolia).
[Unknown]
1607
U (Stack)Zuidervaart, H. J.
"Een Zeeuws Planetarium uit de Tweede Helft van de 18e Eeuw"
offprint from Archief van het Koninklijk Zeeuwsch Genootschap der Wetenschappen, 1982, pp. 69-148 and plates. Met medewerking van H. Hoitsma. Presented by John R. Millburn Esq. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1989-116/1]
1982
U (Stack)Zuylen, J. van
"Jan en Harmanus van Deijl. Een Optische Werkplaats in de 18e Eeuw"
in Marian Fournier & Bert Theunissen (eds.), Het Instrument in de Wetenschap (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1988), pp. 208-228.
[1989-150]
1988
U (Stack)[Bitsakis, Yanis] (exhibition curator)
O me?anIsmos ton AntIku?eron = The Antikythera mechanism
Catalogue of the exhibition "The Antikythera mechanism within the astronomy and technology of its time" at the National Hellenic Research Foundation, from December 7, 2009 to January 25, 2010.
[2014-82]
2010
U (Stack)[Desaguliers, J. T.]
"The different refrangibility of colour'd Light confirmed by Dr. Desaguliers. No 374. p. 206"
extract from Eames & Martyn, The Philosophical Transactions ... Abridged, vol. VI, 1734, p. 145 (article VII). (Extract consists of articles IV-VIII, pp. 129-146, containing chiefly John Hadley, "An Account of a Reflecting Telescope ..." and "The Description of an Instrument for taking Angles, by Reflections ...").
[Unknown]
1734
U (Stack)[Hadley, John]
"An Account of a Reflecting Telescope, made by Mr. J. Hadley. V.P. No 376. p. 303"
extract from Eames & Martyn, The Philosophical Transactions ... Abridged, vol. VI, 1734, pp. 133-139 (article V). (Extract consists of articles IV-VIII, pp. 129-146, containing chiefly John Hadley, "An Account of a Reflecting Telescope ..." and "The Description of an Instrument for taking Angles, by Reflections ...").
[Unknown]
1734
U (Stack)[Hadley, John]
"The Description of an Instrument for taking Angles, by Reflections, invented by Mr. J. Hadley. V.P. No 420. p. 147"
extract from Eames & Martyn, The Philosophical Transactions ... Abridged, vol. VI, 1734, pp. 139-145 (article VI). (Extract consists of articles IV-VIII, pp. 129-146, containing chiefly John Hadley, "An Account of a Reflecting Telescope ..." and "The Description of an Instrument for taking Angles, by Reflections ...").
[Unknown]
1734
U (Stack- oversize)Vivielle, [Commandant]
"Les Sabliers horloges de mer"
offprint from Bulletin Officiel du Yacht Club de France, Christmas Number, 1934. Photocopy of Derek J. Price's copy.
[1961-121]
1934
U (Stack- oversize)Whipple Museum of the History of Science ; Brown, Olivia
Spheres, globes & orreries [The Whipple Museum of the History of Science catalogue 4]
The Whipple Museum of the History of Science. Cambridge: The Whipple Museum of the History of Science, 1983. Presented by the Whipple Museum.
[1984-37]
1983
U (Stack/pending)Hervey, Mary F. S.
Holbein's "Ambassadors": The Picture and the Men: A Historical Study
With Nineteen Illustrations and Two Facsimiles. London: George Bell and Sons, 1900. 2 copies. Formerly the property of E. T. Cook; ... L. Sanderson.
[1960-31] & [Unknown]
1900
U (Tom Telescope)Harris, W.
"A List of the Optical and Philosophical Instruments mentioned in this Book; with the Prices at which they are made and sold by W. Harris, no. 47, Holborn, London"
in 'Tom Telescope', The Newtonian System of Philosophy, ... (London, 1806), pp. 125-136. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
1806
U (Vernet)Ministerio de Cultura, Spain
Astronomical Instruments in Medieval Spain: Their Influence in Europe / Instrumentos Astronomicos en la Espana Medieval: Su Influencia en Europa
Junio-Julio, 1985 Santa Cruz de la Palma. N.p. (printed at Santa Cruz de Tenerife): Ministerio de Cultura, Direccion General de Bellas Artes y Archivos, 1985. Exhibition catalogue, with introductory essays by various authors, especially Julio Samso and Juan Vernet, and introduction by Vernet & Samso. Presented by the publisher Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1985-147]
1985
U (Vince)Bird, John
The Method of constructing Mural Quadrants. Exemplified by a Description of the Brass Mural Quadrant in the Royal Observatory at Greenwich
... 1768. Bound with S. Vince, A Treatise on Practical Astronomy; together with Bird's Method of dividing Astronomical Instruments. 4to.
[Unknown]
1768
U (Vince)Bird, John
The Method of dividing Astronomical Instruments
By Mr. John Bird, Mathematical Instrument-Maker, in the Strand. Published by Order of the Commissioners of Longitude. London, sold by John Nourse, in the Strand; and Mess. Mount and Page, Tower-Hill. 1767. 4to. Bound with S. Vince, A Treatise on Practical Astronomy.
[Unknown]
1767
U (Vince)Dollond, P. & J.
Description and Uses of the New Invented Universal Equatorial Instrument, or, Portable Observatory. With the Divided Object-Glass Micrometer
Made by P. & J. Dollond, Opticians to His Majesty, in St. Paul's Church-yard, London. 4to. Bound with S. Vince, A Treatise on Practical Astronomy.
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
U (Vince)Ludlam, W.
An Introduction and Notes, on Mr. Bird's method of Dividing Astronomical Instruments. To which is added, a Vocabulary of English and French Technical Terms
London: sold by John Sewell, no. 32, Cornhill. 1786. 4to. Bound with S. Vince, Treatise on Practical Astronomy, and works by John Bird.
[Unknown]
1786
U (Vince)Wollaston, Francis
A Description of a Transit Circle, for determining the place of celestial objects as they pass the meridian
From the Philosophical Transactions. 1793. 4to. Bound with S. Vince, Astronomy.
[Unknown]
1793
U (Vince)Wollaston, Francis
Directions for making an Universal Meridian Dial, capable of Being set to any Latitude; which shall give the Mean Solar Time of noon, by Inspection, without any calculation whatsoever
London: Printed for G. and T. Wilkie, no. 57, Pater-Noster Row. 1793. 4to. Bound with S. Vince, Astronomy.
[Unknown]
1793
U (Weld)Briggs, Henry
"The Development of Mine Surveying Methods"
A paper read before the Institute of Mine Surveyors; proof of an article contained in C ... G ... , January 31, February 2nd, 1925. Bound with C. R. Weld, "Report". Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
1925
U (Weld)Newton, E. W.
"The Evolution of the Mining Theodolite"
offprint from unknown, n.d., pp. 82-92. Bound with C. R. Weld, "Report". Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
[n.d.]
U (Weld)Newton, E. W.
"The Evolution of the Mining Theodolite"
offprint from unknown, n.d., pp. 82-92. Bound with C. R. Weld, "Report". Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
[n.d.]
U (Whittell)Anonymous [Whittell, T.; Duncombe, J.]
Tables of Solid Measure, for finding, by Inspection, the quantity of timber in any tree, from Six Inches to Eighty Feet in Length, and from Six Inches to Three Feet in Diameter. ...
London: Printed for the Patentees of the Dendrometer 1768. 8vo. Bound with Thomas Whittell & John Duncombe, A Treatise upon the Dendrometer.
[Unknown]
1768
U - archaeoastronomyParrot, Andre
Ziggurats et Tour de Babel
Paris: Editions Albin Michel, 1949.
[Unknown]
1949
U - metrologyAnonymous [Benton, W. A.]
"The Knife-Edge Pivot: A Few Notes on the History of its Evolution"
extracts from The Efficiency Magazine: An Avery Edition, no. 25, April 1928, pp. 193-199; [no. 26, 1928], pp. 243-246; and [presumably no. 27, 1928], three unnumbered pages. (In three parts). In volume 'Benton - Avery Balances'.
[Unknown]
1928
U - metrologyHaeberle, Karl Erich
10 000 Jahre Waage. Aus der Entwicklungsgeschichte der Wagenstechnik
Balingen: Bizerba-Werken, Wilhelm Kraut KG., aus Anlass des 100 jahrigen Jubilaums 1866-1966. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1980-196]
1966?
U - metrologyLelievre, Jean; Lelievre, Jean-Pierre
Collection de Monsieur de C.: 2000 Poids de l'Antiquite a nos jours: 180 Balances: ...
Galerie des Chartres, April 27-28, 1991. Chartres. (Auction sale catalogue).
[Unknown]
1991
U - metrologyRees, Abraham
"Measure"
photocopy from The Cyclopaedia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature, vol. XXIII, unpaginated. London: for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, 1819.
[1981-133]
1819
U - metrologySchenk-Behrens, Karla W.
II. Waagen Auktion Essen
November 24, 1982. Essen: Karla W. Schenk-Behrens, 1982. (Auction sale catalogue).
[Unknown]
1982
U altBird, John
The Method of Constructing Mural Quadrants
Exemplified by a description of the brass mural quadrant in the Royal Observatory at Greenwich. Published by Order of the Commissioners of Longitude. London. 1768.
[Unknown]
1768