Chapter ID: CBB142372268

The Maker and the Scientist: The Merz-Secchi Connection (2017)

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Chinnici, Ileana (Author)


Pages: 39-68
Publication date: 2017


The Merz Company is well known as one of the most successful of the 19th century instrument-makers, but their interaction with scientists who commissioned their instruments is still largely unexplored.

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Authors & Contributors
Brenni, Paolo
Anderson, Douglas R.
Andrietti, Francesco
Beretta, Marco
Bryden, D. J.
Dewey, Peter E.
Journals
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Journal for the History of Astronomy
Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza
Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society
Der Globusfreund: Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift für Globen- und Instrumentenkunde
History and Technology
Publishers
Bardwell Press
Carnegie
Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology
Concepts
Instrument makers
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Science and technology, relationships
Laboratories
Measuring instruments
Microscopes
People
Airy, George Biddell
Binet, Alfred
Divini, Eustachio
Duboscq, Jules
Herschel, John Frederick William
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
18th century
17th century
Modern
Places
France
Germany
United States
England
Chicago (Illinois, U.S.)
Europe
Institutions
Dutch East India Company
Royal Observatory Greenwich
A. H. Andrews & Co.
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