Instruments of Science: An Historical Encyclopedia (Garland Encyclopedias in the History of Science)

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This authoritative reference covers 325 scientific instruments ranging from antiquity to the present and from the mundane to the highly sophisticated. Entries explain how they work and trace their invention development distribution and use. Fully illustrated and complete with bibliographies it will be particularly useful to students and scholars of modern science and technology. Reflecting contemporary practice it examines instruments used for testing and monitoring as well as those used for research and even considers a number of widely used laboratory organisms (such as drosophila and e.coli) as instruments.