Patrons, artisans and instruments of science, 1600-1750
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Patrons, artisans and instruments of science, 1600-1750
（Variorum collected studies series, CS635）
Ashgate, c1999
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Includes index
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内容説明
This second volume by Silvio Bedini pursues themes set out in his previous collection; the main focus is, again, on Italy, but the scope is broadened to include other parts of Europe. Three elements combined in the evolution and production of scientific instruments: purpose or function, the patron, and the artisans. The first studies here look at the patrons of science, the collections they established and their evolution into museums, and then at some of the artisans who made fine instruments. The second section deals with techniques and instruments. With the adoption of mathematical techniques for measurement - of time, in navigation and surveying and weighing - came the development of tools which grew in precision to the degree that they became part of science. From the toys and curiosities of princes and wealthy prelates, instruments became more functional in response to the new requirements resulting from each new discovery.
目次
- Contents: Collections and Artisans: The evolution of science museums
- The fate of the Medici-Lorraine scientific instruments
- Christina of Sweden and the sciences
- The Dentzel brothers of Ulm
- Johann Wolfgang Gelb of Ulm, 17th-century lock and instrument maker
- Agent for the archduke: another chapter in the story of Johann Philipp Treffler, clockmaker of Augsburg
- In pursuit of provenance: the George Graham proto-orreries
- Instruments and Techniques: The role of automata in the history of technology
- 'A treatise on optics' by Giovanni Christoforo Bolantio
- A Renaissance lapidary lathe
- The compartmented cylindrical clepsydra
- The 17th-century table clepsydra
- 17th-century magnetic timepieces
- Addenda and corrigenda
- Index.
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