HISTORIC INSTRUMENTS 
FOR THE 
ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE 
A Handbook to the Oxjord Collections prepared 
Lewis Evans Collection 
on May y, ip2j 
BY 
R. T. GUNTHER 
A PREFACE to a Guide, except as a raison d'etre , seems almost 
unnecessary; but we venture to express a hope that a handbook 
to the historical Scientific Instruments in Oxford will prove generally 
acceptable. No other place in the world can boast the possession of 
so many ancient instruments in contemporary buildings as can our 
University. 
Scientific instruments are the chief means employed by civilized 
man to improve and to broadcast his civilization. 
The account of them is in some respects a brief abstract of the 
author’s four larger volumes on Early Science in Oxford, supple¬ 
mented by notes on the more interesting instruments recently pre¬ 
sented to the University by Dr. Lewis Evans, and now installed in 
the old Musaeum Ashtnoleanunt. We trust that occasional references 
to kindred objects in our University, even though they are not on 
exhibition with the Evans Collection, may be of real service to those 
for whose use and convenience this little book is intended. 
Fcap 8 vo (6| x 4J), pp. 90, price 2s. 6 d. net 
HUMPHREY MILFORD 
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 
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