Scientific instruments, brass

Figure 6.8 Summary of the maximum zinc content of European brass scientific instruments (ca. AD 1400-1800), classified by country of origin. (Redrawn from Pollard, 1983b, and Mortimer, 1989 Figure 1 by permission of Elsevier Science and the author.)...

Table 6.2 Average analyses of post AD 1560 brass scientific instruments from France, Spain, and Flanders with more than 28% zinc.

Pollard, A.M. (1983b). An investigation of the brass used in Medieval and later European scientific instruments. Paper presented at The Preservation of Historical Scientific Materials, UKIC Meeting, Geological Museum, London, 14th November 1983. 

W. D. Hackmann, Scientific Instruments Models of Brass and Aids to Discovery, in The Uses of Experiment, ed. D. Gooding et al. (Cambridge University Press, 1989)... 

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