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Silvio A. Bedini

1917 - 2007

Silvio Bedini (January 17, 1917 – November 14, 2007) historian and author, specialising in early scientific instruments. Worked at various institutions at the Smithsonian from 1961 - 1987.
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"SIA Acc. 05-115, Bedini, Silvio A, Silvio A. Bedini Papers, 1965-1985," Smithsonian Institution Archives, http://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_258962?back=%2Fsearch%2Fsia_search_collections%2Fsilvio%2520bedini (accessed 08/21/2014)
With Compass and Chain: Early Modern Surveyors and Their Instruments
Science and Instruments in Seventeenth-Century Italy
The Transit in the Tower: English Astronomical Instruments in Colonial America
The trail of time time measurement with incense in East Asia
Of 'Science and Liberty': The Scientific Instruments of King's College and Eighteenth Century Columbia College in New York
Christina of Sweden and the Sciences
'A Treatise on Optics' by Giovanni Christofor Bolantio
A Marine Quadrant by Bernardo Facini
The Evolution of Science Museums
In Pursuit of Provenance: The George Graham Proto-Orreries
Of 'Science and Liberty': The Scientific Instruments of King's College and Eighteenth Century Columbia College in New York
Historic Scientific Relic Hidden in the Palazzo Vecchio
The Christopher Columbus Encyclopedia
Early American Scientific Instruments and Their Makers
The Christopher Columbus Encyclopedia
The Fate of the Medici-Lorraine Scientific Instruments
Instrumentation
Christina of Sweden and the Sciences

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