Deborah jean warner (45 resultados)
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Editorial: Smithsonian Institution Press
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Editorial: University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia 1999
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Softcover. Condición: VG. Glossy color-illustrated softcover. xiii, 178 pp. BW and color illustrations. Published to accompany an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution in 1999. The exhibit highlighted the 18th century fascination with science and men of science.
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Más imágenesEditorial: David & Yola Coffeen and Raymond V. Giordano, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY and MA 1996
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Librería: Kuenzig Books ( ABAA / ILAB ), Topsfield, MA, Estados Unidos de AmericaKuenzig Books ( ABAA / ILAB )
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Staplebound wraps. Condición: Fine. First Edition. First Edition. Pgs 33-64 . 8vo. Wraps. A bright clean copy. Staplebound wraps. ISSUE CONTENTS: Where did X-Ray Astronomy Come From? by DAVID DEVORKIN. That Magnetic Moment: The Birth of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Absorption by BRANDON SHACKELFORD. Precise Levels in Surveys of No…rth America by RANDALL C. BROOKS and HEATHER BAJDIK. Keith's American Heliostat by DEBORAH JEAN WARNER. The Rittenhouse Journal of the Scientific Enterprise was a scholarly journal focused on increasing and distributing knowledge about scientific instruments made and/or sold in the US and the Americas. Throughout its 23 years of publication (and a total of 70 issues), the journal covered areas including mathematical, optical and philosophical instruments, chemical, physical and electrical apparatus, sundials and globes; and time periods from the 17th to the mid-20th century. Authors of the various articles in the journal are well known scholars from major institutions, collectors, and dealers in the field of scientific instruments.
Más imágenesEditorial: David & Yola Coffeen and Raymond V. Giordano, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY and MA 1992
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Librería: Kuenzig Books ( ABAA / ILAB ), Topsfield, MA, Estados Unidos de AmericaKuenzig Books ( ABAA / ILAB )
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Staplebound wraps. Condición: Near Fine. First Edition. First Edition. Pgs 33-64. 8vo. Wraps. Illustrated. A bright clean copy. Staplebound wraps. ISSUE CONTENTS: Laurence Charles Francis, Philadelphia Instrument Maker by BRUCE R. FORMAN. The Oersted Apparatus at The Smithsonian: Perkins, Oersted, and the Piezometer as an Exampl…e of the Transatlantic Exchange by JOEL HODSON. The American Railroad Goniometer by DALE R. BEEKS. The Microscopical Soirde of 1884 by BUDD J. LARUE. Richard Patten (1792-1865) by DEBORAH JEAN WARNER. The Rittenhouse Journal of the Scientific Enterprise was a scholarly journal focused on increasing and distributing knowledge about scientific instruments made and/or sold in the US and the Americas. Throughout its 23 years of publication (and a total of 70 issues), the journal covered areas including mathematical, optical and philosophical instruments, chemical, physical and electrical apparatus, sundials and globes; and time periods from the 17th to the mid-20th century. Authors of the various articles in the journal are well known scholars from major institutions, collectors, and dealers in the field of scientific instruments.
Más imágenesEditorial: David & Yola Coffeen and Raymond V. Giordano, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY and MA 1993
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Staplebound wraps. Condición: Fine. First Edition. First Edition. Pgs 1-32. 8vo. Wraps. Illustrated. A bright clean copy. Staplebound wraps. ISSUE CONTENTS: French Instruments in the United States by DEBORAH JEAN WARNER. The Rittenhouse Journal of the Scientific Enterprise was a scholarly journal focused on increasing and distri…buting knowledge about scientific instruments made and/or sold in the US and the Americas. Throughout its 23 years of publication (and a total of 70 issues), the journal covered areas including mathematical, optical and philosophical instruments, chemical, physical and electrical apparatus, sundials and globes; and time periods from the 17th to the mid-20th century. Authors of the various articles in the journal are well known scholars from major institutions, collectors, and dealers in the field of scientific instruments.
Más imágenesEditorial: David & Yola Coffeen and Raymond V. Giordano, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY and MA 1991
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Staplebound wraps. Condición: Near Fine. First Edition. First Edition. Pgs 65-96. 8vo. Wraps. Illustrated. A bright clean copy. Staplebound wraps. ISSUE CONTENTS: Baird Associates's Commercial Three-Meter Grating Spectrograph and the Transformation of Analytical Chemistry by DAVIS BAIRD. Everything from Watch to Locomotive by DE…BORAH JEAN WARNER. The Rittenhouse Journal of the Scientific Enterprise was a scholarly journal focused on increasing and distributing knowledge about scientific instruments made and/or sold in the US and the Americas. Throughout its 23 years of publication (and a total of 70 issues), the journal covered areas including mathematical, optical and philosophical instruments, chemical, physical and electrical apparatus, sundials and globes; and time periods from the 17th to the mid-20th century. Authors of the various articles in the journal are well known scholars from major institutions, collectors, and dealers in the field of scientific instruments.
Más imágenesEditorial: David & Yola Coffeen and Raymond V. Giordano, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY and MA 1996
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Librería: Kuenzig Books ( ABAA / ILAB ), Topsfield, MA, Estados Unidos de AmericaKuenzig Books ( ABAA / ILAB )
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Staplebound wraps. Condición: Fine. First Edition. First Edition. Pgs 97-126. 8vo. Wraps. Illustrated. A bright clean copy. Staplebound wraps. ISSUE CONTENTS: Tools of Teaching and Research: John Prince, the Deerfield Academy, and Educational Reform in the Early Republic by SARA SCHECHNER GENUTH. William Wales; An Anglo-American… Microscope, Optician by DEBORAH JEAN WARNER. The Rittenhouse Journal of the Scientific Enterprise was a scholarly journal focused on increasing and distributing knowledge about scientific instruments made and/or sold in the US and the Americas. Throughout its 23 years of publication (and a total of 70 issues), the journal covered areas including mathematical, optical and philosophical instruments, chemical, physical and electrical apparatus, sundials and globes; and time periods from the 17th to the mid-20th century. Authors of the various articles in the journal are well known scholars from major institutions, collectors, and dealers in the field of scientific instruments.
Más imágenesEditorial: David & Yola Coffeen and Raymond V. Giordano, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY and MA 1993
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Staplebound wraps. Condición: Fine. First Edition. First Edition. Pgs 65-96. 8vo. Wraps. Illustrated. A bright clean copy. Staplebound wraps. ISSUE CONTENTS: Cathetometers and Precision Measurement: The History of an Upright Ruler by DEBORAH JEAN WARNER. Tempest in a Milk Pail: The Lactometer and 19th Century Dairy Disputes by M…ARJORIE BERRY. The Reflecting Goniometer by STEVEN TURNER. The Zealous Marketing of Rain-Band Spectroscopes by THOMAS F. PETERSON, JR. The Rittenhouse Journal of the Scientific Enterprise was a scholarly journal focused on increasing and distributing knowledge about scientific instruments made and/or sold in the US and the Americas. Throughout its 23 years of publication (and a total of 70 issues), the journal covered areas including mathematical, optical and philosophical instruments, chemical, physical and electrical apparatus, sundials and globes; and time periods from the 17th to the mid-20th century. Authors of the various articles in the journal are well known scholars from major institutions, collectors, and dealers in the field of scientific instruments.
Más imágenesEditorial: David & Yola Coffeen and Raymond V. Giordano, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY and Acton, MA 1998
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Wraps. Condición: Near Fine. First Edition. First Edition. 97-128 pages.Publisher's printed wraps. Illustrated. A bright clean copy. Wraps. ISSUE CONTENTS: Joseph Henry's Contributions to the Electromagnet and the Electric Motor by ROGER SHERMAN. Andrew Ellicott's Determination of Latitude and Longitude at the Confluence of the…Ohio and Mississippi Rivers by JOSEPH H. SENNE. Thomas Hill: Minister, Intellectual and Inventor by PEGGY A (Aldrich) KIDWELL. Hassler's Instruments at NIST by LISA GREENHOUSE. The Rittenhouse Journal of the Scientific Enterprise was a scholarly journal focused on increasing and distributing knowledge about scientific instruments made and/or sold in the US and the Americas. Throughout its 23 years of publication (and a total of 70 issues), the journal covered areas including mathematical, optical and philosophical instruments, chemical, physical and electrical apparatus, sundials and globes; and time periods from the 17th to the mid-20th century. Authors of the various articles in the journal are well known scholars from major institutions, collectors, and dealers in the field of scientific instruments.
Más imágenesEditorial: David & Yola Coffeen and Raymond V. Giordano, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY and Acton, MA 1998
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Wraps. Condición: Near Fine. First Edition. First Edition. 32 pages.Publisher's printed wraps. Illustrated. A bright clean copy. Wraps. ISSUE CONTENTS: John Bird and the Origin of the Sextant by DEBORAH JEAN WARNER. Circular Dividing Engines in the United States before 1900 by ROBERT C. MILLER. Thomas Alva Edison's Gift to Milan… High School by THOMAS B. GREENSLADE, Jr. A Constant Deviation Wavelength Spectrometer Made by Adam Hilger, Ltd. by NOAH RINDOS. The Beckman DU Spectrophotometer by JON EKLUND. The Rittenhouse Journal of the Scientific Enterprise was a scholarly journal focused on increasing and distributing knowledge about scientific instruments made and/or sold in the US and the Americas. Throughout its 23 years of publication (and a total of 70 issues), the journal covered areas including mathematical, optical and philosophical instruments, chemical, physical and electrical apparatus, sundials and globes; and time periods from the 17th to the mid-20th century. Authors of the various articles in the journal are well known scholars from major institutions, collectors, and dealers in the field of scientific instruments.
Editorial: Smithsonian 1968
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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good +. First Edition. Hardcover. Page 69-72 has a minor stain, slight yellowing to edge of pages but otherwise sharp, attractive copy with clean, unmarked pages throughout with good black and white photography and illustrations. Binding is solid. Minor edgwear but still presentable.
Más imágenesEditorial: David & Yola Coffeen and Raymond V. Giordano, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY and MA 1989
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Staplebound wraps. Condición: Near Fine. First Edition. First Edition. Pgs 1-32. 8vo. Wraps. Illustrated. A bright clean copy. Staplebound wraps. ISSUE CONTENTS: Elizur Wright's Arithmeter. An Early American Spiral Slide Rule by PEGGY A (Aldrich) KIDWELL. The Microscopes of Charles Fasoldt by PAUL L. FERRAGLIO. The Straight-Line… / Nadir Instrument of the Dorchester Bay Tunnel Project by DALE R. BEEKS and A. JAMES HILL. Microscopes and Medicine in the U.S., 1840-1860 by DEBORAH JEAN WARNER. Squire Whipple's Protracting Trigonometer by FRANCIS E. GRIGGS, JR. The Rittenhouse Journal of the Scientific Enterprise was a scholarly journal focused on increasing and distributing knowledge about scientific instruments made and/or sold in the US and the Americas. Throughout its 23 years of publication (and a total of 70 issues), the journal covered areas including mathematical, optical and philosophical instruments, chemical, physical and electrical apparatus, sundials and globes; and time periods from the 17th to the mid-20th century. Authors of the various articles in the journal are well known scholars from major institutions, collectors, and dealers in the field of scientific instruments.
Más imágenesEditorial: David & Yola Coffeen and Raymond V. Giordano, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY and MA 1994
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Staplebound wraps. Condición: Fine. First Edition. First Edition. Pgs 33-64. 8vo. Wraps. Illustrated. Minor scuffing to rear cover. A bright clean copy. Staplebound wraps. ISSUE CONTENTS: The Holyoke Instruments at Harvard by RAYMOND V. GIORDANO. Alvan Clarks' Customers by DEBORAH JEAN WARNER. Applying a New Science to a New Ind…ustry: The Promise of Spectrum Analysis and the Reality of the Bessemer Process of Making Steel by STEVEN TURNER. The Rittenhouse Journal of the Scientific Enterprise was a scholarly journal focused on increasing and distributing knowledge about scientific instruments made and/or sold in the US and the Americas. Throughout its 23 years of publication (and a total of 70 issues), the journal covered areas including mathematical, optical and philosophical instruments, chemical, physical and electrical apparatus, sundials and globes; and time periods from the 17th to the mid-20th century. Authors of the various articles in the journal are well known scholars from major institutions, collectors, and dealers in the field of scientific instruments.
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hardcover. Condición: Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used textbooks may not include companion materials such as access codes, etc. May have some wear or writing/highlighting. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.
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hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.
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Hardcover. Condición: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Editorial: Smithsonian Institution Press
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Librería: Pacific Rim Used Books LLC, Anacortes, WA, Estados Unidos de AmericaPacific Rim Used Books LLC
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Hardback. 1968. There are b&w illustrations and a list of Clark's paintings. 120 Good. Owner's name in ink. Light staining on both the front and rear free end papers. No dust wrapper.
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Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. PAPERBACK 1999. 25x17cm. 379 pages with index. Black & white illustrations. Flat spine. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref o30.
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Librería: Forgotten Books, London, Reino UnidoForgotten Books
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Paperback. Condición: New. Print on Demand. This book delves into the remarkable story of a 19th-century American family who revolutionized astronomical observation. It chronicles the lives and work of Alvan Clark and his sons, George Bassett and Alvan Graham, who together formed the renowned firm Alvan Clark & Sons. The narrati…ve unfolds against the backdrop of a burgeoning public fascination with astronomy, fueled by scientific advancements and the desire to explore the cosmos. The Clarks rose to prominence by crafting exquisite lenses for some of the world's most powerful telescopes, including the still-unmatched 40-inch lens at Yerkes Observatory. Beyond their technical mastery, the book explores the Clarks' dedication to scientific inquiry and their contributions to practical astronomy. It details their meticulous methods, their pursuit of perfection, and their own astronomical observations, including the discovery of double stars and participation in solar eclipse expeditions. Ultimately, this book illuminates the legacy of the Clark family, not only as skilled artisans but as pioneers who helped shape the course of astronomical discovery and pushed the boundaries of our understanding of the universe. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.
Editorial: The Antiquarian Scientist / Jeremy Norman 1984
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hardcover. Condición: Used-Very Good. Cloth, no dj. Ex-library, with usual markings, but otherwise bright and clean. Facsimile reprint with new intro. Two volumes in 1. Over 600 pp. in all. Illus.
Idioma: Inglés
Editorial: Richmond: Willmann-Bell/ Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, 1995. 1995
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Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Second Edition (1st ed., 1968). 298 pp; 121 illus. Original laminated boards. Near Fine, without dust jacket (as issued).
