Robert Stewart Whipple
Encyclopedia
Robert Stewart Whipple was an author and collector of science books and scientific instruments. He amassed a unique collection of antique scientific instruments that he later donated to found the Whipple Museum of the History of Science
in 1944.
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
The Whipple Museum of the History of Science holds an extensive collection of scientific instruments, apparatus, models, pictures, prints, photographs, books and other material related to the history of science. It was founded in 1944, when Robert Whipple presented his collection of scientific...
in 1944.
Publications
- De* Renzi, Silvia Between the market and the academy: Robert S. Whipple (1871-1953) as a collector of science books. In: Medicine, mortality and the book trade.. Myers, Robin (Ed.); Harris, Michael (Ed.) Published: Winchester: St. Paul's Bibliographies; New Castle (DE): Oak Knoll Press, 1998, p. 87-108
- Robert S Whipple (1930) Some scientific instrument makers of the eighteenth century. J. Sci. Instrum. 7 241-253