Scientific instruments on display
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Scientific instruments on display
（History of science and medicine library, v. 46 . Scientific instruments and collections ; v. 4）
Brill, c2014
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Description
During their active lives, scientific instruments generally inhabit the laboratory, observatory, classroom or the field. But instruments have also lived in a wider set of venues, as objects on display. As such, they acquire new levels of meaning; their cultural functions expand.
This book offers selected studies of instruments on display in museums, national fairs, universal exhibitions, patent offices, book frontispieces, theatrical stages, movie sets, and on-line collections. The authors argue that these displays, as they have changed with time, reflect changing social attitudes towards the objects themselves and toward science and its heritage. By bringing display to the center of analysis, the collection offers a new and ambitious framework for the study of scientific instruments and the material culture of science.
Contributors are: Amy Ackerberg-Hastings, Silke Ackermann, Marco Beretta, Laurence Bobis, Alison Boyle, Fausto Casi, Ileana Chinnici, Suzanne Debarbat, Richard Dunn, Inga Elmqvist-Soederlund, Ingrid Jendrzejewski, Peggy A. Kidwell, Richard Kremer, Mara Miniati, Richard A. Paselk, Donata Randazzo, Steven Turner.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Silke Ackermann, Richard L. Kremer and Mara Miniati
Colour Plates
1. Andrea Corsini and the Creation of the Museum of the History of Science in Florence (1930-1961)
Marco Beretta
2. "Not for their beauty": Instruments and narratives at the Science Museum, London
Alyson Boyle
3. "More Artistic than Scientific": Exhibiting Instruments as Decorative Arts in the Victoria & Albert Museum
Richard Dunn
4. "Of sufficient interest ..., but not of such value ...": 260 Years of Displaying Scientific Instruments in the British Museum
Silke Ackermann
5. Instruments on Display at the Paris Observatory
Laurence Bobis and Suzanne Debarbat
6. Looking at Scientific Instruments on Display at the United States Centennial Exhibition of 1876
Richard L. Kremer
7. Permanent Demonstrations: The Science Teaching Museum at the University of Chicago
Steven C. Turner
8. The Display of Twentieth-Century Instruments at Humboldt State University
Richard A. Paselk
9. Slide Rules on Display in the United States, 1840-2010
Peggy Aldrich Kidwell and Amy Ackerberg-Hastings
10. "Exceedingly Ridiculous": Telescopes on Displayon the Seventeenth-Century Stage
Ingrid Jendrzejewski
11. Instruments on Movie Sets: A Case Study
Ileana Chinnici, Donatella Randazzo and Fausto Casi
12. Display of Instruments on Seventeenth Century Astronomical Frontispieces
Inga Elmqvist Soederlund
General Index
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