What is a scientific instrument, when did it become one, and why? | Semantic Scholar

This essay addresses the historiographical question of how to study scientific instruments and the connections between them without rigidly determining the boundaries of the object under historical scrutiny beforehand, and an alternative is developed to an understanding of instruments as univocally functioning material means.

History, Physics

The British and foreign medical review

• 1838

edly possible, and restrain the indiscriminate mixture of elements,?remain to be discovered."f Since the researches of Faraday have proved the identity of chemical and electrical attraction, it would…

S. Ross

History

• 1962

The appellation scientist is considered a title of honor, hotly contended for by economists, engineers, physicians, psychologists, and others. The word itself is widely believed to have been…