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Jesse Ramsden (1735-1800) - London's Leading Scientific Instrument Maker (Paperback)
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Jesse Ramsden (1735-1800) - London's Leading Scientific Instrument Maker (Paperback)
Series: Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945
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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 career and presents us with a
detailed account of the instrument trade in this period. By
studying the life of one prominent instrument maker, the entire
practice of the trade is illuminated, from the initial commission,
the intricate planning and design, through the practicalities of
production, delivery and, crucially, payment for the work. The book
will naturally be of immeasurable interest to historians of science
and scientific instruments but, as it also sheds light on the
increasing commercialisation of the scientific trade on the cusp of
the Industrial Revolution, should also interest social and economic
historians of the eighteenth century.
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