Instruments and the imagination

Instruments and images: subjects for the historiography of science

Athanasius Kircher's sunflower clock

The magic lantern and the art of demonstration

The ocular harpsichord of Louis-Bertrand Castel; or, The instrument that wasn't

The aeloian harp and the romantic quest of nature

Science since Babel: graphs, automatic recording divices, and the universal language of intstruments

The giant eyes of science: the stereoscope and photgrahpic depiction in the nineteenth century

Vox mechanica: the history of speaking machines

Conclusion.