1. For extensive recent bibliographies on the growing studies of scientific instrumentation see David Gooding, Trevor Pinch, and Simon Schaffer, eds., The Uses of Experiment: Studies in the Natural Sciences (Cambridge, New York, New Rochelle: Cambridge University Press, 1989), 461–7, and passim
2. Adele E. Clarke and Joan H. Fujimura, eds., The Right Tools for the Job: At Work in Twentieth-Century Life Sciences (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1992), 31–44, and passim
3. Albert Van Helden and Thomas L. Hankins, eds., Instruments (= Osiris, second ser. 9 [1994], on 237–42)
4. On optical instrumentation in particular see Gerard L’E Turner, “The History of Optical Instruments: A Brief Survey of Sources and Modern Studies”, History of Science 8 (1969):53–93
5. reprinted with supplement in Gerard L’E Turner, Essays on the History of the Microscope (Oxford: Senecio, 1980), chapter 2.