Brian Gee, edited McConnell by Anita

Francis Watkins and the Dollond Telescope Patent Controversy (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Working from original documents consulted for the first time, Brian Gee has uncovered the life and times of an eighteenth-century mathematical and optical instrument maker, Francis Watkins, who played an important role in one of the most significant legal cases to touch this profession, the patenting of the achromatic lens in telescopes. The book explains Watkins' origins and his partnership with the Dollond firm, who are shown to have been hard-headed and ruthless, before accounting for Watkins' successors and their ultimate decline.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317133308
• Artikelnr.: 49366024

Autorenporträt

Brian Gee was a member of the Scientific Instrument Society from its foundation in 1983. He published numerous key works on scientific instruments and had almost completed this monograph on the Dollond patent controversy before he died in 2009. Anita McConnell is an independent historian of science, living near Cambridge. A.D. Morrison-Low won the 2008 Paul Bunge Prize for her bookMaking Scientific Instruments in the Industrial Revolution (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007). She is Principal Curator, Science, at National Museums Scotland. The completion of the book was made possible by the generous funding of the Scientific Instrument Society.