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Partes Pré-Textuais

Introduction
Marcus Granato and Marta C. Lourenço

Uses and circulation of historical scientific instruments
Silvia F. de M. Figueirôa

America's earliest (European-style) Astronomical Observatory, founded and used by Georg Marggrafe in Dutch colonial Brazil, 1638-1643
Oscar T. Matsuura and Huib J. Zuidervaart

The use of useless instruments: The gnomonic inventions by V. Estancel (S. J.) in transit through the Portuguese empire (1650-1680)
Samuel Gessner

How telescopes came to New England, 1620-1740
Sara J. Schechner

Heaving a little ballast: Seaborne astronomy in the late-eighteenth century
Richard Dunn

Instruments in transit: The Santo Ildefonso Treaty and the Brazilian border demarcations
Isabel Malaquias

Talk, tariffs and trade: Restricting the global circulation of scientific instruments in Britain after the First World War
Richard L. Kremer

The development of the Laussedat phototheodolite and its use on the Brazil-Argentina Border
Bruno Capilé and Moema de Resende Vergara

The trajectory of chromatography in Brazil: The case of the gas chromatograph
Valeria Freitas and Marcio Rangel

Instituto Butantan's first electron microscope
Adriana Mortara Almeida

Shaping 'good neighbor' practices in science: Mobility of physics instruments between the United States and Mexico, 1932-1951
Adriana Minor

Scientific heritage in Brazil: Surveying collections and groups of artefacts from the 'exact' sciences and engineering
Marcus Granato, Marta C. Lourenço, Elias da Silva Maia, Fernanda Pires Santos, Gloria Gelmini de Castro and Mariana S. Damasceno

The Physics teaching instruments at Colégio Pedro II, Rio de Janeiro: Study and preliminary results
Marcus Granato and Liliane Bispo dos Santos

Tools for teaching Physics and Chemistry in secondary schools: The case of the Colégio Culto à Ciência, Brazil, 1899-1902
Reginaldo Alberto Meloni

Scientific instruments for physics teaching in Brazilian secondary schools, 1931-1961
Maria Cristina de Senzi Zancul and Elton de Oliveira Barreto

The collection of scientific instruments of the Colégio Marista Arquidiocesano Museum, São Paulo: Origins, context and significance
Katya Mitsuko Zuquim Braghini

Photographing microscopic preparations in the nineteenth century: Techniques and instrumentation
Maria Estela Jardim and Marília Peres

Scientific instruments, booksellers and engineers in Imperial Brazil: Building bridges and roads in Minas Gerais, 1835-1889
Télio Cravo

Health collections in museums: The case of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
Pedro Paulo Soares and Inês Santos Nogueira

Resumos

Notes on Authors