Stories
- Article
The art of scientific glassblowing
Exciting things happen when art, craft, engineering and science collide. Glassblower Gayle Price is proof of that.
- Interview
Inside the mind of Ayurvedic Man’s curator, Bárbara Rodriguez Muñoz
The choices a curator makes – what goes in? what stays out? why? – are often as fascinating as the exhibition itself.
- Long read
The ambivalence of air
Daisy Lafarge investigates the effects of air quality and pressure on body and mind, exploring air as cure, but one with contradictions.
Catalogue
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Modern optical instruments and their construction / by Henry Orford.
Orford, Henry.Date: 1896- Books
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Directions for the use of Hadley's quadrant, with remarks on the construction of that instrument. With considerable corrections and additions. By the Reverend Mr. Ludlam, Late Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge.
Ludlam, William, 1717-1788.Date: [1790]- Books
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Geometrical optics / by Val H. Mackinney and Harry L. Taylor.
Mackinney, Val H., 1791-1868.Date: 1908- Books
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Description and use of the patent military and naval telescope, for measuring distances and the extension of objects at sight; by means of a new micrometrical adjustment. Dedicated BY Permission To His Royal Highness the Duke of York. Invented by C. Rand.
Rand, Cater.Date: [1799]- Books
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The perfected prismometer : its practical advantages, construction, and various applications / by C.F. Prentice.
Prentice, Charles F. (Charles Frederick), 1854-Date: [1891]