Jesse Ramsden (1735-1800): London's Leading Scientific Instrument Maker

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2007 - 318 pagine
The life and work of the 18th-century scientific instrument maker Jesse Ramsden, who was acknowledged by his European scientific contemporaries as a consummate artist. In 1786, he was elected to the Royal Society, a rare honour among instrument makers.
 

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Introduction
1
Entering Trade
25
The Dividing Engines
39
The Piccadilly Workshop
53
Observatory Instruments and Expeditions before 1786
77
Observatories and Expeditions after 1786
113
A Miscellany of Instruments
157
Surveying and the Great Geodetic Theodolites
191
Dispute Over his Standard of Work
223
Ramsdens Will and Probate
247
Tales of a Great Man
275
Appendices
297
Index
313
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