Historic reconstructions have become a decisive tool in the history of science and technology. The book brings together key studies of recently completed reconstruction projects.

Contents

The Antikythera Mechanism: Reconstruction as a medium for research and publication by Michael Wright

Using experimental archaeology to answer the ‘unanswerable’: A case study using Roman dyeing by Heather Hopkins

The sound of Iron Age music: Reconstructing the Deskford Carnyx by Fraser Hunter

The Sea Stallion of Glendalough: Reconstructing a Viking-age longship by Søren Nielsen

Learning through replications: The Planet locomotive project by Michael R. Bailey

Reconstructions as experimental history: Historic computing machines by Doron D. Swade

The spiral conductor of Charles Grafton Page: Reconstructing experience with the body, more options, and ambiguity by Elizabeth Cavicchi

Experience and self-reflection: An electrostatic-historiographic-didactic experiment by Jan Frercks

Materialised skills: Instrumental development and practical experiences by Peter Heering

Aim at the starts, reach the Nicol: The Zöllner photometer by  Klaus Staubermann

Reconstructing the painting studio of Johannes Vermeer by Philip Steadman

Mid-nineteenth-century photographic studio technique: Why recreate nineteenth-century photographic technology? by Mark Osterman

Klaus Staubermann is Principal Curator of Technology, Department of Science and Technology, National Museums Scotland.