Sara J. Schechner

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Sara J. Schechner

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According to Wikipedia, Sara J. Schechner is an American historian of science, the David P. Wheatland Curator of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments and a lecturer on the History of Science at Harvard University.

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Comets, Popular Culture, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology (1997) (35)
The Material Culture of Astronomy in Daily Life: Sundials, Science, and Social Change (2001) (15)
Between Knowing and Doing: Mirrors and Their Imperfections in the Renaissance (2005) (15)
Tangible Things: Making History through Objects (2015) (4)
The Scientific and Historical Value of Annotations on Astronomical Photographic Plates (2016) (3)
The Art of Making Leyden Jars and Batteries according to Benjamin Franklin (2015) (3)
Astronomy behind Enemy Lines: Colonial American Field Expeditions, 1761--1780 (2012) (1)
7 European Pocket Sundials for Colonial Use in American Territories (2016) (1)
Against the Hockney-Falco thesis: Glass and metal mirrors of the 15th century could not project undistorted images (2004) (1)
DIVISION IX / COMMISSION 41 / WORKING GROUP HISTORICAL INSTRUMENTS (2011) (1)
Time and Time Again: How Science and Culture Shape the Past, Present, and Future (2014) (1)
Tangible Things : Making History through Objects . By Laurel (2016) (0)
Astro2020 State of the Profession White Paper: Astronomy's Archival Materials (2019) (0)
Matteo Valleriani (Editor). The Structures of Practical Knowledge. xii + 491 pp., figs., illus., indexes. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2017. €119.59 (cloth). ISBN 9783319456706. (2018) (0)
These Are Not Your Mother’s Sundials: Or, Time and Astronomy’s Authority (2017) (0)
Telling time in Tokugawa Japan (2019) (0)
Book Review: The Many Facets of Halley: Edmond Halley: Charting the Heavens and Seas (2000) (0)
Tangible Things of American Astronomy (2018) (0)
“Girl-Hours” at the Harvard Observatory (2018) (0)
Observations on Niccolò Tornioli’s The Astronomers (2021) (0)
Eastern Astrolabes by David Pingree (2010) (0)
The IAU Historical Instruments Working Group. 1: progress report 2003-2004 (2004) (0)
Book Review: An American of Many Lives: Two Brides for Apollo: The Life of Samuel Williams, 1743–1817 (2012) (0)
History of Astronomy State of the Profession (2019) (0)
The IAU Historical Instruments Working Group. 2: Harvard's Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments and its astronomical treasures (2004) (0)
IAU HISTORICAL INSTRUMENTS WORKING GROUP: TRIENNIAL REPORT (2009-2011) (2011) (0)
Preservation of Our Astronomical Heritage State of the Profession White Paper for Astro2020 (2019) (0)
Boston Electric (2020) (0)
Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas, Charles Burnett, Silke Ackermann, Ryan Szpiech. Astrolabes in Medieval Cultures (2022) (0)
Did Tim Paint a Vermeer? (2021) (0)
Benjamin Franklin: A how-to guide (2007) (0)
Astrolabes and Medieval Travel (2017) (0)
DIVISION XII / COMMISSION 41 / WORKING GROUP HISTORICAL INSTRUMENTS (2007) (0)
Eastern Astrolabes by D. Pingree (2012) (0)
Preservation Challenges in North America: Recent Efforts by the American Astronomical Society (2012) (0)
Gerard L’E. Turner.Elizabethan Instrument Makers: The Origins of the London Trade in Precision Instrument Making. xiv + 305 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. (2006) (0)
DIVISION XII / COMMISSION 41 / WORKING GROUP HISTORICAL INSTRUMENTS (2007) (0)
Astronomy Behind Enemy Lines in Colonial North America: John Winthrop's Observations of the Transits of Venus (2005) (0)
Benjamin Franklin and a Tale of Two Electrical Machines (2006) (0)
Book Review: Comets: Sublunary or Celestial?: The Age of Two-Faced Janus: The Comets of 1577 and 1618 and the Decline of the Aristotelian World View in the Netherlands (2003) (0)
Benjamin Franklin: A How-To Guide, Catalog of the Exhibition (2006) (0)

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