Elizabethan Instrument Makers - Turner, Gerard L'E. (Senior Research Associate at the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, and Visiting Professor in the History of Scientific Instruments, Senior Research Associate at the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, and Visiting Profes

The first part of this book describes the development of the trade in scientific instruments in Elizabethan London. In the second part, the author describes in detail the provenance and context of all the existing scientific instruments from this period. Highly illustrated throughout, this book is a fascinating and scholarly study of a neglected period.