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Instrument manufacture

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Scientific apparatus and instruments
Measuring instruments
Engineering instruments

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  • A maker of geometrical and surveying instruments talks to a customer standing outside his shop, while an assistant works at a window beyond. Woodcut by J. Amman.

Works from the collections

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    • Books

    Renaissance astrolabes and their makers / Gerard L'E. Turner.

    Turner, Gerard L'Estrange. | Date: [2003], ©2003
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    'The Scientific' : the story of the Cambridge Instrument Company, manufacturers of scientific instruments with a worldwide reputation for precision / Donald J. Unwin ; with foreword by E.D. Barlow.

    Unwin, Donald J. | Date: 2001
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    Nineteenth-century scientific instruments and their makers : papers presented at the Fourth Scientific Instrument Symposium, Amsterdam, 23-26 October 1984 / edited by P.R. de Clercq.

    Scientific Instrument Symposium 1984 : Amsterdam, Netherlands) | Date: 1985
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    A maker of geometrical and surveying instruments talks to a customer standing outside his shop, while an assistant works at a window beyond. Woodcut by J. Amman.

    Amman, Jost, 1539-1591. | Date: [1568] | Reference: 34920i
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    Jesse Ramsden (1735-1800) : London's leading scientific instrument maker / Anita McConnell.

    McConnell, Anita. | Date: 2007

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Scientific apparatus and instruments

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