Abstract
All too often the instruments and instrument makers are totally ignored in accounts of historical science, but they, too, played a major role in the study of asteroids. “Throughout the eighteenth century, instrument making continued to provide a route to status as a natural philosopher for its most elite practitioners. Instrument makers such as John Dollond, celebrated for his optical instruments, or his son-in-law Jesse Ramsden, equally celebrated for his astronomical instruments, were both Fellows of the Royal Society.” (Morus 2016:100)
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