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This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. A significant although little known figure in the history of early American science is Anthony Lamb, a maker of mathematical instruments who was active in NY from 1730 to 1784. He had been trained in a skill which was rare in his time even in England, and it was one which was virtually unknown in the American colonies in the early 18th cent. English-born and transported to Maryland as a convicted felon, Lamb emerged as the first professionally trained maker of scientific instruments in the American colonies, and the first to be established in NY. Contents of this study: The Apprentice and the Sorcerer; The Fate of Felons; The Brave New World; The Invention of the Octant; The Mid-Century Years; Then the Revolution. Illustrations.
Price: $40.00
Pages: 84
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Imprint: The American Philosophical Society Press
Series: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
Publication Date:
January 1, 1984
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781422381953
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
SCIENCE / Scientific Instruments
"Bedini has shown us what can be achieved through real determination to pursue the traces left by the working life of an individual maker…He has had to draw on a remarkable collection of scattered and ephemeral sources, and the story he tells is very clearly the result of a considerable and sustained piece of research."
— J. A. Bennett
"Bedini presents, in his customarily engaging manner, what surely must be the last word on the first (and only colonial) American with formal European training as a mathematical instrument maker."
— Deborah Jean Warner
"This biography is a very useful addition to the library of anyone interested in scientific instruments and I hope that it will encourage the study, in depth, of other instrument makers."
— Peter Delehar
— J. A. Bennett
"Bedini presents, in his customarily engaging manner, what surely must be the last word on the first (and only colonial) American with formal European training as a mathematical instrument maker."
— Deborah Jean Warner
"This biography is a very useful addition to the library of anyone interested in scientific instruments and I hope that it will encourage the study, in depth, of other instrument makers."
— Peter Delehar