Author: Baxandall, D.
Title: Catalogue of the Collections in the Science Museum, South Kensington, with Descriptive and Historical Notes and Illustrations. Mathematics I: Calculating Machines and Instruments
Description: HMSO 1926 85, 13 b/w plates. . PB. Orig. printed wrappers. From an institutional library with book-plate tipped in. Good.. Covers calculating machines and instruments from the seventeenth-century to the early twentieth-century. Includes chapters on different types of slide rules, instruments solving equations, linear integrators, planimeters, integrometers, integraphs, list of donors and contributors, etc..

Keywords: Science history


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