ESHS/HSS Annual Meeting

Contributed Paper

Armel Cornu, Uppsala University

Measuring Plural Worlds: Collections, Commodities, and the Making of Colonial Metrology - J C Niala; Shankar Nair

Mapping the Royal Infirmary Surgical Instruments Collection at the National Museum of Scotland - Eeva Savolainen, University of Stirling; University of Glasgow

Revisiting Nineteenth-Century Visual Photometry: Instruments, Practices, and Reciprocal Influences - Kaori Watanabe, University of Tokyo

“An Instrument which Tells us what the Body Feels”: The Kata-Thermometer and the Measurement of Comfort - Sharad Pandian, Princeton University