Tony Freeth, 2008, 36pp

A brief history of research on the Antikythera Mechanism, written to accompany the exhibition which ran from July 31st - December 19th 2008 in the Whipple Museum. Tony Freeth, one of the team known as the Antikythera Mechanism Research Project [http://www.antikythera-mechanism.gr] (AMRP), gives a participant's account of conducting research into this extraordinary ancient Greek astronomical calculating machine.

The Mechanism was designed to calculate complex cycles of mathematical astronomy, including the movements of the sun, moon and planets. However, latest research by the AMRP reveals that it also contained a sporting calendar, with a dial showing the four-year cycle of ancient Greek athletic games, including the Olympic Games.

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The Whipple Museum of the History of Science: Instruments and interpretations, to celebrate the 60th anniversary of R.S. Whipple's gift to the University of Cambridge

Liba Taub and Frances Willmoth (eds.), 2006, 512pp

The Whipple Museum in Cambridge contains one of the most important existing collections in the history and philosophy of science and has played a key role in teaching and research within those subjects. Founded in 1944 with funding from Robert Stewart Whipple, formerly of the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company, the Museum aims to preserve the material culture of science through its collections, to document and provide access to those collections, and to interpret and research the material culture and associated practices of past science.

This volume brings together 23 essays and 85 illustrations which chart the Museum's history; examine its role and influence within the University of Cambridge and the study of the subject more widely; and focus on a range of particular scientific instruments in the collection, drawing out their broader historical significance and associations.

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Nick Hopwood, 2002, 216pp, including 32pp colour and 100 halftones

Embryos in Wax highlights the role of 3-D models in creating the images of embryos that we see today on our computer and television screens. It is about the extraordinary objects that in the 19th and early 20th centuries Adolf and Friedrich Ziegler cast for universities and museums around the world. A lavishly illustrated history, this is also a comprehensive guide to the finest embryological models.

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David J. Bryden, 1988, 108pp

A comprehensive guide to the sundials and related instruments housed within the Whipple Museum.

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J.A. Bennett, 1989, 35pp

A gallery full of French instruments, demonstrating the shift that took place between the 18th and 19th centuries, with Lenoir at the pivotal epoch of the French Revolution. A record of an exhibition in the Whipple Museum.

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Penelope Gouk, 1988, 144pp

A comprehensive and inter-disciplinary study of the ivory diptych dials produced in Nuremburg in the period 1500-1700. This book places the dials in the cultural context in which they were manufactured and marketed. This extensively illustrated publication includes a catalogue of the exhibition of the same name.

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D. Bryden, 1978, 17pp

Selected highlights of instruments on display in the Whipple Museum, chosen and described by David Bryden, curator of the Whipple Museum from 1970 to 1978.

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A 50th Anniversary Exhibition at the Whipple Museum of the History of Science
J.A. Bennett and D. Bertoloni Meli, 1994, 148pp

An illustrated catalogue produced to coincide with the Museum's 50th anniversary exhibition. Utilising books from the Whipple collection, it deals not only with bibliographical issues and with practical and technical aspects of the astronomy of the time, but also with such things as dedicatory letters, as a reminder of the importance of patronage in astronomical careers of the period.

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J.A. Bennett, 1983, 22pp

This illustrated booklet, published to accompany an exhibition of the same name, provides an account of the medals awarded to 'Class X: Philosophical Instruments' at the Great Exhibition, Crystal Palace, 1851.

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