登入選單
返回Google圖書搜尋
European Collections of Scientific Instruments, 1550-1750
出版BRILL, 2009-02-28
主題History / Europe / GeneralHistory / Europe / RenaissanceBusiness & Economics / Museum Administration & MuseologySocial Science / Anthropology / PhysicalSocial Science / Popular CultureScience / Experiments & ProjectsScience / Scientific InstrumentsScience / HistoryArt / Museum StudiesSocial Science / General
ISBN90474261779789047426172
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=oxSwCQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
EBookSAMPLE
註釋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 Dupré, 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