These essays draw on recent and versatile work by museum staff, science educators, and teachers, showing what can be done with historical scientific instruments

The Museums and Collections of Higher Education provides an analysis of the historic connections between materiality and higher education, developed through div

In a bid to claim ‘scientific objects’ as requiring a significant amount of conceptual labor, this book looks sequentially at instruments, habits, and museu

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