Whipple Museum of the History of Science

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The Whipple Museum of the History of Science is a University of Cambridge museum that houses historic scientific instruments, models, and related artifacts illustrating the development of science from the medieval period to the present.

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Label	Occurrences
Whipple Museum of the History of Science canonical	4
Robert Stewart Whipple collection of scientific instruments	1

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	museum of the history of science ⓘ science museum ⓘ university museum ⓘ
affiliation	Cambridge University Department of History and Philosophy of Science ⓘ surface form: Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
buildingUsed	former Perse School building on Free School Lane ⓘ
city	Cambridge, England ⓘ surface form: Cambridge
collectionType	apparatus for teaching science ⓘ related scientific artifacts ⓘ scientific instruments ⓘ scientific models ⓘ
country	United Kingdom ⓘ
focusesOn	development of science from the medieval period to the present ⓘ history of science ⓘ
foundedBy	Robert Stewart Whipple ⓘ
hasCollection	Renaissance scientific instruments ⓘ Whipple Museum of the History of Science self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Robert Stewart Whipple collection of scientific instruments astronomical instruments ⓘ early laboratory apparatus ⓘ early modern scientific instruments ⓘ globes ⓘ historical scientific books and ephemera ⓘ mathematical instruments ⓘ medieval scientific instruments ⓘ microscopes ⓘ models of scientific instruments ⓘ modern scientific instruments ⓘ philosophical instruments ⓘ scientific demonstration apparatus ⓘ teaching models ⓘ telescopes ⓘ
hasWebsite	https://www.whipplemuseum.cam.ac.uk/ ⓘ
inception	1944 ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
locatedIn	Cambridge, England ⓘ surface form: Cambridge Cambridge city centre ⓘ England ⓘ Free School Lane ⓘ Cambridge University ⓘ surface form: University of Cambridge
namedAfter	Robert Stewart Whipple ⓘ
opened	1944 ⓘ
operatedBy	Cambridge University ⓘ surface form: University of Cambridge
ownedBy	Cambridge University ⓘ surface form: University of Cambridge
partOf	University of Cambridge Museums ⓘ
publicAccess	yes ⓘ
region	Cambridgeshire, England ⓘ surface form: Cambridgeshire
subjectOf	research in history of science ⓘ

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Free School Lane, Cambridge → hasBuilding → Whipple Museum of the History of Science ⓘ

Free School Lane, Cambridge → hasTouristAttraction → Whipple Museum of the History of Science ⓘ

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this entity surface form: Robert Stewart Whipple collection of scientific instruments

Downing Site, Cambridge → hosts → Whipple Museum of the History of Science ⓘ

New Museums Site → hasPart → Whipple Museum of the History of Science ⓘ