| #6761165 in Books | 2007-12-28 | Original language:English | 9.50 x6.50 x1.25l,1.91 | File type: PDF | 344 pages|||Combining a wealth of technical detail with information on arguably the most important person in the history of angular measurement, this thoroughly researched volume is most welcome... McConnell's wide use of archival material will assist historians in severa
Jesse Ramsden was one of the most prominent manufacturers of scientific instruments in the latter half of the eighteenth century. To own a Ramsden instrument, be it one of his great theodolites or one of the many sextants and barometers produced at his London workshop, was to own not only an instrument of incredible accuracy and great practical use, but also a thing of beauty. In this, the first biography of Jesse Ramsden, Dr Anita McConnell reconstructs his life and ca...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Jesse Ramsden (1735-1800) (Science, Technology and Culture, 1700–1945) | Anita McConnell. Just read it with an open mind because none of us really know.
