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- Title
THE LIFE AND WORK OF DAVID PINGREE WHEATLAND (1898-1993).
- Authors
ANDREWES, WILLIAM J. H.
- Abstract
David Pingree Wheatland was one of this century's foremost collectors of scientific instruments. In addition to building a substantial private collection, he was responsible for preserving a large amount of the scientific apparatus that had been purchased by Harvard University for teaching and research since the middle of the eighteenth century. These instruments formed the core of Harvard's Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, to which Wheatland, who served as one of its principal founders, its main benefactor, and its first curator, later donated the majority of his own collection.
- Subjects
CAMBRIDGE (Mass.); MASSACHUSETTS; WHEATLAND, David Pingree; COLLECTORS &; collecting; SCIENTIFIC apparatus collections; RESEARCH equipment; HARVARD University
- Publication
Journal of the History of Collections, 1995, Vol 7, Issue 2, p261
- ISSN
0954-6650
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jhc/7.2.261