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Instruments and the Imagination - Princeton Legacy Library Thomas L. Hankins
Instruments and the Imagination - Princeton Legacy Library
Thomas L. Hankins
Thomas Hankins and Robert Silverman investigate an array of instruments from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century that seem at first to be marginal to science--magnetic clocks that were said to operate by the movements of sunflower seeds, magic lanterns, ocular harpsichords (machines that played different colored lights in harmonious mixt
352 pages, 90 halftones
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | April 19, 2016 |
| ISBN13 | 9780691635200 |
| Publishers | Princeton University Press |
| Pages | 352 |
| Dimensions | 292 × 227 × 26 mm · 1.14 kg |
| Language | English |