Classification of early modern instruments

In this video Doina-Cristina Rusu exposes a classification of scientific instruments from the early modern period.

Instruments are mathematical and scientific. The former are used especially for drawing and calculations, while the latter serve different purposes:

1. they improve the senses
2. they provide information when senses are not reliable
3. they are used as models or analogies of natural phenomena
4. they create conditions which do not occur naturally