Scientific Instruments in the History of Science:
Studies in transfer, use and preservation
Edited by:
Marcus Granato
Marta C. Lourenço
Museu de Astronomia e Ciências Afins
Rio de Janeiro, 2014
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TITLE: Scientific instruments in the history of science: Studies in transfer, use
and preservation
Selection of papers from the XXXI Symposium of the Scientific Instruments
Commission
Edited by: Marcus Granato and Marta C. Lourenço
Scientific Committee: David Pantalony, Jim Bennett, Louise Devoy, Marcus Granato,
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SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
STUDIES IN TRANSFER, USE AND PRESERVATION
Table of Contents
Introduction
Marcus Granato and Marta C. Lourenço
7
Transfer of Scientific Instruments between Europe and the Americas
Uses and circulation of historical scientific instruments
Silvia F. de M. Figueirôa
15
America's earliest (European-style) Astronomical Observatory, founded and used
by Georg Marggrafe in Dutch colonial Brazil, 1638-1643
Oscar T. Matsuura and Huib J. Zuidervaart
33
The use of useless instruments: The gnomonic inventions by V. Estancel (S. J.)
in transit through the Portuguese empire (1650-1680)
Samuel Gessner
53
How telescopes came to New England, 1620-1740
Sara J. Schechner
69
Heaving a little ballast: Seaborne astronomy in the late-eighteenth century
Richard Dunn
79
Instruments in transit: The Santo Ildefonso Treaty and the Brazilian border
demarcations
Isabel Malaquias
101
Talk, tariffs and trade: Restricting the global circulation of scientific instruments
in Britain after the First World War
Richard L. Kremer
117
The development of the Laussedat phototheodolite and its use on the BrazilArgentina Border
Bruno Capilé and Moema de Resende Vergara
143
Recent Heritage of Science
The trajectory of chromatography in Brazil: The case of the gas chromatograph
Valeria Freitas and Marcio Rangel
161
Instituto Butantan's first electron microscope
Adriana Mortara Almeida
173
Shaping 'good neighbor' practices in science: Mobility of physics instruments
between the United States and Mexico, 1932-1951
Adriana Minor
185
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Scientific heritage in Brazil: Surveying collections and groups of artefacts from
the 'exact' sciences and engineering
Marcus Granato, Marta C. Lourenço, Elias da Silva Maia, Fernanda Pires
Santos, Gloria Gelmini de Castro and Mariana S. Damasceno
207
The Scientific Heritage of Education
The Physics teaching instruments at Colégio Pedro II, Rio de Janeiro: Study
and preliminary results
Marcus Granato and Liliane Bispo dos Santos
231
Tools for teaching Physics and Chemistry in secondary schools: The case of
the Colégio Culto à Ciência, Brazil, 1899-1902
Reginaldo Alberto Meloni
247
Scientific instruments for physics teaching in Brazilian secondary schools,
1931-1961
Maria Cristina de Senzi Zancul and Elton de Oliveira Barreto
259
The collection of scientific instruments of the Colégio Marista Arquidiocesano
Museum, São Paulo: Origins, context and significance
Katya Mitsuko Zuquim Braghini
277
The Use of Scientific Instruments for Teaching, Research and
Innovation
Photographing microscopic preparations in the nineteenth century: Techniques
and instrumentation
Maria Estela Jardim and Marília Peres
299
Scientific instruments, booksellers and engineers in Imperial Brazil: Building
bridges and roads in Minas Gerais, 1835-1889
Télio Cravo
319
Health collections in museums: The case of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
Pedro Paulo Soares and Inês Santos Nogueira
345
Resumos
355
Notes on Authors
387
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