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Gerard L'Estrange Turner

1926 - 2012

Gerard L'E. Turner was a Senior Research Associate at the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford. He iwas an authority on the history of the microscope and other scientific instruments.

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Gerard L'Estrange Turner, Elizabethan Instrument Makers, http://www.amazon.com/Elizabethan-Instrument-Makers-Origins-Precision/dp/0198565666 (accessed 07/20/2015)

"Professor Gerard Turner," The Telegraph, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/science-obituaries/9500927/Professor-Gerard-Turner.html (accessed 07/20/2015)

The Astrolabe Presented by Regiomontanus to Cardinal Bessarion in 1462
Scientific Instruments and Experimental Philosophy, 1550-1850
Elizabethan Instrument Makers: The Origins of the London Trade in Precision Instrument Making
Van Marum's Scientific Instruments in Teyler's Museum, Descriptive Catalogue Part II
The Rise and Fall of the Jewel Microscope, 1824-1837
Gerard L'Estrange Turner, Papers
Collecting Microscopes
The Auction Sales of The Earl of Bute's Instruments, 1793
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Scientific Instrument Symposium: Bologna University, Italy, 9-14 September 1991
Antique Scientific Instruments
Renaissance Astrolabes and their Makers
The Great Age of the Microscope: The Collection of the Royal Microscopical Society through 150 years
God Bless the Microscope!: A History of the Royal Microscopical Society Over 150 Years
The Practice of Science in the Nineteenth Century
Annals of Science: An Astrolabe attributed to Gerard Mercator c.1570
Historical Aspects of Microscopy
Review of Barbara Hughes' Catalog of the Scientific Apparatus at the College of Charleston, 1800-1940
The Auction of Larcum Kendall's Workshop, 1790
The Contributions to science of Friedrich Adolph Nobert
Essays on the History of the Microscope
Nineteenth Century Scientific Instruments
Nineteenth Century Scientific Instruments
Nineteenth Century Scientific Instruments
Antique Scientific Instruments
Storia delle scienze: Le scienze fisiche e astronomiche
Catalogue of Microscopes

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