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«	Wolaston-type Reflecting Goniometer	SCU Collection at Smithsonian Institution	»

Chemical Balance This instrument is an example of the increasingly precise balances that were being created in the 18th century. "I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science." - Lord Kelvin Item#: RB.35 Photograph courtesy of SCU Archaeology Department Quotation from "Nineteenth Century Scientific Instruments" p.47.
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