APPROACHES TO INSTRUMENT HISTORY; Some uses for catalogue s of old scientific instruments, J.L. Heilbron; Interpreting the history of scientific instruments, A.J. Turner; EARLY INSTRUMENTS; An unknown Latin version of an ancient Parapegma: The Weather-forecasting stars in the Iudicia of Pseudo-Ptolemy, Charles Burnett; Rewriting history through instruments: The secrets of a medieval astrolabe from Picardy, David A King; Astronomical paper instruments with moving parts, Owen Gingerich; INSTRUMENTS AND ART; Raphael's Astronomia: between art and science, Kristen Lippincott; Scientific instruments: an Iconographic Note, C.R. Hill; INSTRUMENTS AND SCIENCE; Christina of Sweden and the sciences, Silvio A Bedini; Joseph Black and his chemical furnace, R.G.W. Anderson; Wheatstone's wave machine: A Physical model of light, Howard A.L. Dawes; More than 'a mere gazing place': the special loan exhibition and the science conferences of 1876, Frank Greenaway; Electricity from steam: Armstrong's hydroelectric machine in the 1840s, Willem Hackmann; The pendulum as the British. length standard: a 19th-century legal aberration, A.D.C. Simpson; BRITISH INSTRUMENTS 'A very artificial workman': the altitude sundials of Humphrey Cole, Deny s Vaughan; An equatorial ring dial by Ralph Greatorex, A.V. Simcock; Francis Hall's sundial for the blind, Jan De Graeve; Early navigational instruments in Scotland: Icons and survivals, A. Morrison-Low; Equipping the Radcliffe Observatory: Thomas Hornsby and his Instrument-Makers, J.A. Bennett, William Prout and the urinometer: Some interpretations, John Burnett; INSTRUMENTS IN THE NETHERLANDS Brittle Glass: A fragile chapter in the history of experimental physics, Peter De Clerq; Frederik Kaiser and his 'steady boat compass with nightly illumination', Elly Dekker; Elisa van der Ven and the physical laboratory of the Teyler Foundation (Haarlem), 1878-1909, Marijn van Hoorn; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; A tale of two instruments, Roderick and Marjorie Webster; Seventeeth-century Simple Microscopes, Brian Bracegirdle; The True name of Selligue, Margarida Archinard; Utrecht University and its microscopes, J.C. Deiman; THE INSTRUMENT-MAKING; The Spectaclemakers' Company and the origins of the optical Instrument-Making Trade in London, Gloria Clifton; A 1701 dictionary of mathematical instruments, D.J. Bryden; Illustrations of scientific instruments in the Gentleman's magazine, 1746-1796, Peter Delehar; Some notes on Benjamin Ayres, J.H. Leopold; Jeppe Smith (1759-1821): a Danish instrument-maker, Hemming Andersen; Scientific instruments and industrial innovation: the achievement of Jesse Ramsden, Allen Chapman: Thomas Cooke's order book: analysis of an optical business, 1856-1868, Anita McConnell; INVENTORIES AND COLLECTIONS; The Irish national inventory and one of its 'discoveries', Charles Mollan; The astronomical clocks of Andreas Hohwu: a checklist, Willem F.J. Morzer Bruyns; Index.
