European collections of scientific instruments, 1550-1750
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European collections of scientific instruments, 1550-1750
（History of science and medicine library, v. 10 . Scientific instruments and collections ; v. 1）
Brill, c2009
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Collections of scientific instruments originated as part of Renaissance collections of 'naturalia' and 'artificialia'. Surveying and astronomical instruments were common in such collections, their role being to impress visitors by displaying the power that a ruler acquired through the control of nature. This book offers selected studies of notable European collections of scientific instruments from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. These studies also present the work of important instrument makers of the time, and their relations with patrons and rulers. A final section focuses on the role of modern museums and collectors in saving this scientific heritage from dispersal. The result is a contemporary perspective on the formation of the most important museums of the history of science.
Contributors include: Paolo Brenni, Filippo Camerota, Gloria Clifton, Wolfram Dolz, Sven Dupre, Karsten Gaulke, Sven Hauschke, Michael Korey, Mara Miniati, Tatiana M. Moisseeva, Peter Plassmeyer, Klaus Schillinger, Giorgio Strano, Koenraad Van Cleempoel, and Ewa Wyka.
Scientific Instruments and Collections, 1
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Presentation, Paolo Brenni
Introduction, Giorgio Strano
1. The Mathematical Instruments of Wenzel Jamnitzer (1508-1585), Sven Hauschke
2. Christoph Schissler: The Elector's Dealer, Peter Plassmeyer
3. Some Lesser-Known Dresden Instrument Makers of the Seventeenth Century, Klaus Schillinger
4. The Waywisers of Elector August of Saxony and their New Use in the Survey of Saxon Postal Roads, Wolfram Dolz
5. Optical Objects in the Dresden Kunstkammer: Lucas Brunn and the Courtly Display of Knowledge, Sven Dupre and Michael Korey
6. "The First European Observatory of the Sixteenth Century, as Founded by Landgrave Wilhelm IV of Hessen-Kassel": A Serious Historiographic Category or a Misleading Marketing Device?, Karsten Gaulke
7. Philip II's Escorial and its Collection of Scientific Instruments, Koenraad Van Cleempoel
8. The Medici Collection of Mathematical Instruments: History and Museography, Filippo Camerota
9. Scientific Instruments and the Legacy of Johannes Broscius, Professor of the Krakow Academy, Ewa Wyka
10. Scientifica of the Petersburg Kunstkamera as the Instruments for the Introduction of New European Knowledge in Russia, Tatiana M. Moisseeva
12. The Central European Instruments 1500-1800 in the Collections of the National Maritime Museum and Royal Observatory Greenwich: A Study in the History of Collecting, Gloria Clifton
13. The Collecting Taste: Italian Case-Studies between the Nineteeth and TwentiethCenturies, Mara Miniati
Index
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