Nineteenth-Century Scientific Instruments

Berkeley, Calif. University of California Press, 1983. Hardcover. Brown cloth, gilt letters on spine, blue & decorated dust jacket, 320 pp., many BW & color illus. VG- (Ex-library, with few if any markings, dj has sunned, page edges have tanned slightly, otherwise quite nice.). Item #135743
ISBN: 0520051602

"This is the first book to deal with the vast range of instruments and apparatus made and used during the exciting years of the nineteenth century, when modern science came of age. The scientists of this age were explorers whose discoveries created a completely new environment for Western man." (dj) Interesting treatment.

Price: $100.00

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