Elizabethan Instrument Makers: The Origins of the London Trade in Precision Instrument Making

by Gerard L'E. Turner

Europe in the sixteenth century experienced a period of unprecedented vitality and innovation in the spheres of science and commerce. The Americas had been discovered and the colonizing nations had an urgent need for mathematical instruments for navigation and surveying. In 1540 the
Elizabethan age saw the establishment of the precision instrument-making trade in London, a trade that would become world-famous in the succeeding two centuries. The...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198565666
• ISBN13: 9780198565666
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.5" x 7.4"