Instruments of mystery
By: the Cambridge Latin Therapy Group ; editors: Patrick Boner and Catherine Eagleton
Contributors: Cambridge Latin Therapy Group; Whipple Museum of the History of Science
Publisher: Whipple Museum in association with the Cambridge Latin Therapy Group, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 65
ISBN-13: 9780906271223
Subjects: Machinery; History; Agricultural implements; Folklore; Mandrakes; Scientific apparatus and instruments; Early works to 1800; Latin language; Translating into English; Medieval and modern Latin literature; Translations into English; Natural Science Disciplines; Equipment and Supplies; Appareils et instruments scientifiques; Littérature; Latin (langue); Moyen âge; Traduction; Science; Sciences naturelles; Histoire
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: How the Latin Therapy Group got interested in instruments that might never have existed / Patrick Boner and Catherine Eagleton; title: Darkness visible : obscurity and openness in three mysterious instrument texts / Nick Jardine [and others]; title: Tycho Brahe, Erasmus Oswald Schreckenfuchs and the mysterious planetary motion machine / Adam Mosley; title: Of dogs, mousetraps and magical plants how (not) to dig up a mandrake / Laurence Totelin [and others]; title: Sending secret messages : Henry Reynolds' Macrolexis / Will Poole, Katherine Harloe and Nick Jardine.