Knowing and doing in the sixteenth century : what were instruments for? / Jim Bennett.
Abstract:
'The meeting ground between historians and curators of collections has been disappointingly narrow. This study [includes] a characterization of sixteenth-century mathematical instruments, drawing on the work of curators [and reexamines] the position of William Gilbert on the motion of the Earth.' (from the abstract)
British journal for the history of science Vol. 36 (2003), p. 129-150