Presidential address - Knowing and doing in the sixteenth century: What were instruments for?

British Journal for the History of Science

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 129-150

  Bennett, Jim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0242298093     PISSN: 00070874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S000708740300503X     Document Type: Review

References (36)

1. M. Miniati (ed.), Museo di Storia della Scienza: Catalogo, Florence, 1991, 132-47. For seventeenth-century instruments in general, see M. Daumas, Scientific Instruments of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries and their Makers (tr. M. Holbrook), London, 1972.
2. M. Miniati (ed.), Museo di Storia della Scienza: Catalogo, Florence, 1991, 132-47. For seventeenth-century instruments in general, see M. Daumas, Scientific Instruments of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries and their Makers (tr. M. Holbrook), London, 1972.
3. Available via the internet at www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/epact.
4. For an early illustration of such a globe, see Gemma Frisius, De principiis astronomiae & cosmographiae, Antwerp, 1530.
5. J. Bennett, 'Epact unpacked: the sundials of Miniato Pitti', Sphaera (1998), no. 8, 2-3.
6. E. Danti and L. Orsini, Trattato del Radio Latino, Rome, 1583.
7. Miniati, op. cit. (1), 16; B. Romano, Proteo Militare, Naples, 1595.
8. Miniati, op. cit. (1), 16; B. Romano, Proteo Militare, Naples, 1595.
9. See, for example, L. Zubler, Novium instrumentum geometricum, Basel, 1607; B. Bramer, Bericht zu Jobsten Burgi seligen geometrischen triangular Instruments, Kassel, 1648.
10. See, for example, L. Zubler, Novium instrumentum geometricum, Basel, 1607; B. Bramer, Bericht zu Jobsten Burgi seligen geometrischen triangular Instruments, Kassel, 1648.
11. Johann Stöffler, Elucidatio fabricae ususque aslrolabii, Oppenhein, 1513, and subsequent editions.
12. Gemma Frisius, De astrolabo catholico liber, Antwerp, 1556, f. 4v.
13. Gemma Frisius, op. cit. (9), f. 7.
14. For paper instruments, see A. J. Turner, 'Paper, print and mathematics: Philippe Danfrie and the making of mathematical instruments in late 16th century Paris' in Studies in the History of Scientific Instruments (ed. C. Blodel, F. Parot, A. Turner and M. Williams), London, 1989, 22-51; O. Gingerich, 'Astronomical paper instruments with moving parts', in Making Instruments Count (ed. R. G. W. Anderson, J. A. Bennett and W. F. Ryan), Aldershot, 1993, 63-74.
15. For paper instruments, see A. J. Turner, 'Paper, print and mathematics: Philippe Danfrie and the making of mathematical instruments in late 16th century Paris' in Studies in the History of Scientific Instruments (ed. C. Blodel, F. Parot, A. Turner and M. Williams), London, 1989, 22-51; O. Gingerich, 'Astronomical paper instruments with moving parts', in Making Instruments Count (ed. R. G. W. Anderson, J. A. Bennett and W. F. Ryan), Aldershot, 1993, 63-74.
16. O. Gingerich, 'Apian's Astronomicum Caesareum and its Leipzig facsimile', Journal for the History of Astronomy (1971), 2, 168-77.
17. W. Borough, A Discours of the Variation of the Cumpas, or Magneticall Needle, London, 1581, preface.
18. E. Rosen (ed.) Three Copernican Treatises, New York, 1959.
19. Rosen, op. cit. (14), 99-100.
20. L. Bagrow, History of Cartography (ed. R. A. Skelton), London, 1960, 130.
21. Rosen, op. cit. (14), 9, 109.
22. J. A. Bennett, 'The challenge of practical mathematics', in Science, Culture and Popular Belief in Renaissance Europe (ed. S. Pumfrey, P. L. Rossi and M. Slawinski), Manchester, 1991, 176-90.
23. A. Koyré, From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe, Baltimore, 1968, 55-6.
24. W. Gilbert, De Magnete (tr. P. Fleury Mottelay), New York, 1958, 275.
25. S. P. Pumfrey, 'William Gilbert's magnetic philosophy, 1580-1684: the creation and dissolution of a discipline', Ph.D. dissertation, Warburg Institute, University of London, 1987.
26. Gilbert, op. cit. (20), 304.
27. Gilbert, op. cit. (20), 305.
28. Gilbert, op. cit. (20), 304.
29. Gilbert, op. cit. (20), 306-7.
30. Gilbert, op. cit. (20), 330, 333.
31. Gilbert, op. cit. (20), 333.
32. Gilbert, op. cit. (20), 334.
33. Gilbert, op. cit. (20), 327.
34. G. Freudenthal, 'Theory of matter and cosmology in William Gilbert's De magnets', Isis (1983), 74, 22-37.
35. W.Gilbert, De mundo nostro sublunari philosophia nova, Amsterdam, 1651; S. Kelly, The De Mundo of William Gilbert, Amsterdam, 1965.
36. W.Gilbert, De mundo nostro sublunari philosophia nova, Amsterdam, 1651; S. Kelly, The De Mundo of William Gilbert, Amsterdam, 1965.