Annals of Science, Volume 81, Issue 1-2 (2024)

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Promises of Precision: Questioning Precision in ‘Precision’ Instruments

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Promises of precision: questioning precision in ‘precision’ instruments
Sibylle Gluch
Pages: 1-9
Published online: 02 Feb 2024
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Quantification and precision: a brief look at some ancient accounts
Arthur Harris & Liba Taub
Pages: 10-29
Published online: 28 Dec 2023
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‘Si te omnimoda delectat precisio’: early astronomical instruments with scales and the multiple meanings of precision in the sixteenth century
Samuel Gessner
Pages: 30-59
Published online: 15 Dec 2023
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Searching for precision: Lorenz Eichstadt’s Tabulae harmonicae coelestium motuum (Stetin 1644) and astronomical prediction after Kepler
Richard L. Kremer
Pages: 60-78
Published online: 23 Nov 2023
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Francis Bacon and the practices of measurement
Dana Jalobeanu
Pages: 79-99
Published online: 17 Nov 2023
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The social life of precision instruments: artisans’ trials in early-modern England, 1550–1700
Boris Jardine
Pages: 100-123
Published online: 15 Dec 2023
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Directions of precision: George Graham’s instructions for his pendulum astronomical clocks
Luís Tirapicos
Pages: 124-138
Published online: 20 Nov 2023
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Popularizing precision: cultures of exactness at the Paris observatory, 1667–1742
David Aubin
Pages: 139-159
Published online: 04 Dec 2023
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Time troubles: clocks and practices of precision in early eighteenth-century observatories
Sibylle Gluch
Pages: 160-188
Published online: 22 Jan 2024
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How to ensure a chronometer’s accuracy. Josiah Emery timekeepers and their users
Rossella Baldi
Pages: 189-207
Published online: 14 Dec 2023
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On being sufficiently exact: assessing navigational instruments in the eighteenth century
Richard Dunn
Pages: 208-234
Published online: 17 Nov 2023
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Managing precision: how to use chronometers accurately at sea
Emily Akkermans
Pages: 235-257
Published online: 18 Dec 2023
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The promises and pitfalls of precision: random and systematic error in physical geodesy, c. 1800–1910
Miguel Ohnesorge
Pages: 258-284
Published online: 23 Nov 2023
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