DESCRIPTION OF A NEW HYGROMETER
The Royal Society, 1771. Octavo, 197-212 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Section of larger work bound in brown paper with paper title label on front cover. Covers have bending to edges and mild edge and shelf wear. Textblock has slight uneven toning. Horology Binder, Room A Ephemera.
1380005
Special Collections - Upstairs
Price: $135
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From the collection of Silvio Bedini. Bedini spent twenty five years at the Smithsonian Institution, serving as curator in the Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering in the new Museum of History and Technology (now the National Museum of American History) before serving as first Assistant Director then Deputy Director of the National Museum of History and Technology. He then served as Keeper of Rare Books at the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, a branch of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, before becoming a Historian Emeritus. He specialized in early scientific instruments.