Abstract
SOME six or seven years ago Mr. Gunther began to examine the old instruments of various kinds, most of which had until then been utterly neglected or forgotten, preserved in the Colleges and Museums at Oxford. The present volume is the outcome of his studies of the astronomical instruments, not only of those found in Oxford, but also of the magnificent collection of portable instruments, chiefly astrolabes and sun-dials, formed by Mr. Lewis Evans during the past thirty years. This collection is at present exhibited in the portrait gallery of the Bodleian Library, and has been offered as a free gift to the University, on the sole condition that it shall be properly housed and exhibited. Owing to the rarity of examples of the work of many of the makers, it is a collection which it would be difficult or impossible to bring together again. It is very much to be hoped that the gift may be accepted, and that it may form the nucleus of a museum illustrating the progress of science since the Middle Ages. Early Science in Oxford. By R. T. Gunther. Vol. 2: Astronomy. Pp. xv + 408 + 66 plates. (Oxford: Printed for the Subscribers, 1923.) n.p.
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