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Scientific Instrument Commission

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SIC PUBLICATIONS

The Scientific Instrument Commission publications include an annual Newsletter, a cumulative bibliography database, and Papers and Proceedings from past symposia. Each of these is described below.

In addition to these publications, the Commission will have a distinct and identifiable section within an annual issue of journal Nuncius (see the Nuncius web site for more information about this journal). The four SIC sections that have appeared are:

the 2001 section presented papers read at the 19th Scientific Instrument Symposium (Oxford, 2000) in the session: Archives of Instrument Dealers and Collectors.
in the 2002 and 2003 sections, Nuncius offered papers from the The Making of the Spectroscope workshop held in Munich in 2001.
the 2004 section contains a series of papers titled "SIC Instrument Case Studies 1850-1950" from the XXIth (Athens, 2002) and XXIIth (Newport News 2003) Symposia of the SIC (edited with an introduction by Jim Bennett).

The Scientific Instrument Commission has two annual publications:

a Newsletter, of which Number 23 appeared in May 2002.
the SIC Cumulative Bibliography of books, pamphlets, catalogues and
articles on or connected with historical studies on scientific instruments.

Two accumulated bibliographies have been published in printed form by the Commission:

A Classified Bibliography on the History of Scientific Instruments,
by G.L'E. Turner and D.J. Bryden,
(Oxford: Scientific Instrument Commission, 1997).
A Supplement to a Classified Bibliography on the History of Scientific Instruments,
A.V. Simcock,
(Oxford: Scientific Instrument Commission, 1998).

They may be ordered from:

The Museum of the History of Science
Broad Street
Oxford OX1 3AZ
United Kingdom

The cost, including surface postage, is £5 for the Classified Bibliography, and £2 for the Supplement. Payment should be in sterling, and cheques made payable to 'University of Oxford'.

Publication from a Workshop of the Scientific Instrument Commission:

The restoration of scientific instruments. Proceedings of
the workshop held in Florence, December 14-15, 1998.
Le Lettere, Florence, 2000. 113 pages. ISBN 88 7166 501 5.
Price 35.000 Italian Lire = 18,08 Euro.

This publication may be ordered from:

LICOSA
Fax: +39 055 641257
E-mail: licosa@licosa.com
Website: www.licosa.com

Publications from the Symposia of the Scientific Instrument Commission:

Proceedings of the XXV Scientific Instrument Symposium held in Krakow in September 2006. Title: "Proceedings of the XXV Scientific Instrument Symposium "East and West The Common European Heritage," Jagiellonian University Museum, Kracow, 2006, 335 pages, (ISBN 978-83-88659-51-5).
Proceedings of the 11th International Scientific Instrument Symposium: Bologna University, Italy, 9-14 September 1991, ed. Giorgio Dragoni, Anita McConnell and Gerard L'E Turner (Bologna: Grafis, 1994).

Other proceedings material from SIC Symposia:

Proceedings of the "Scientific Instruments and Museums" section of the XXth International Congress of History of Science in Liège, 20-26 July 1997. Title: "Scientific Instruments and Museums," ed. Maurice Dorikens (Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, Belgium, 2002). ISBN 2-503-51369-7.
An Apparatus of Instruments: the Role of the Scientific Instrument Commission, ed. R.G.W. Anderson and G.L'E Turner (London, 1993) is a booklet containing articles based on a few of the papers presented to the XIIth Scientific Instrument Symposium held in Edinburgh in 1992.
Studies in the History of Scientific Instruments: Papers Presented at the 7th Symposium of the Scientific Instruments Commission of the Union Internationale d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences. Paris 15-19 September 1987, ed. Christine Blondel, Françoise Parot, Anthony Turner and Mari Williams (London: Rogers Turner Books Ltd, 1989).
Nineteenth-century scientific instruments and their makers: Papers Presented at the Fourth Scientific Instrument Symposium, Amsterdam 23-26 October 1984, ed. P.R. de Clercq (Leiden: Museum Boerhaave; Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1985).