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James A. Bennett

born 1947

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James Arthur Bennett PhD (born 1947) is a retired museum curator and historian of science. Jim Bennett was Director of the Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford. He retired in 2012.
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"Jim Bennett (historian)," Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bennett_%28historian%29 (accessed 08/26/2014)
"Staff," Museum of the History of Science, http://web.archive.org/web/20110707052031/http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/about/staff/ (accessed 08/24/2014)
Sphaera Mundi: Astronomy Books, 1478-1600
Empires of Physics: A Guide to the Exhibition
The Compleat Surveyor
The Divided Circle: A History of Instruments for Astronomy Navigation and Surveying
The Grounde of Artes: Mathematical books of 16th-century England
Le Citoyen Lenoir: Scientific instrument making in revolutionary France
1900: The New Age: A Guide to the Exhibition
University of Cambridge: Whipple Museum of the History of Science
Science at the Great Exhibition
Catalogue 5: Spectroscopes, Prisms & Gratings
The Celebrated Phaenomena of Colours: the early history of the spectroscope
The Divided Circle, A History of Instruments for Astronomy, Navigation anf Surveying
Making Instruments Count: Essays on Historical Scientific instruments presented to Gerard L'Estrange Turner

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