“…A relatively important corpus of socio-historical studies dedicated to the local conception and realization of new instrument devices, which, at a point or another of their developments, are led to mention calibration, fall within this second perspective. In this vein, we can mention, for instance, Bourget, Licoppe and Sibum (2002), Chang (2004), Chang and Yi (2005), Heering (2005), Licoppe (1996), Livengood (2009), Schickore (2007), Sibum (1995. In many of the studies of this corpus, however, calibration is not the central topic: it is considered incidentally, or among other, equally or most important issues (for example, the theoretical principles on which the explanation of the instrument rests).…”