On Crookes, Plücker and Hittorf and the contrast between British and German interpretations of gaseous discharge phenomena in the late nineteenth century, see also MüllerFalk, Gasentladungsforschung im 19. Jahrhundert (Berlin, 2004), strangely enough missing from the bibliography but briefly mentioned in the introduction as a study complementary to the one under review.
2.
HentschelKlaus, “The interplay of instrumentation, experiment and theory”, Philosophy of science, lxiv (1998), S53–S64.
3.
In PinchTrevorSchafferSimon (eds), The uses of experiment (Cambridge, 1989), 225–74.
