Cabinets of Experimental Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Europe

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-04-25296-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Reihe: Scientific Instruments and Collections

Cabinets of Experimental Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Europe is an ambitious contribution to the growing interest in how science came to engage the attention of a public outside the academic and professional spheres and how collections of instruments played a formative role in this development.

Collections of physical instruments for research and demonstration appeared throughout Europe in the eighteenth century and the coverage of the book is correspondingly broad. While collections in different cultural and geographical locations had much in common, there were significant local modifications. The essays in this book illustrate how science, sometimes thought to be monolithic and universal, can maintain core intellectual characteristics and practical techniques while adapting to particular sites and circumstances.



Contributors include: Jim Bennett, Sofia Talas, Huib J. Zuidervaart, Hans Hooijmaijers, Ad Maas, Tiemen Cocquyt, Inga Elmqvist Söderlund, Paola Bertucci, Marta C. Lourenço, David Felismino, Ivano Dal Prete, Ewa Wyka, Martin Weiss, and Paolo Brenni.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Strano, Giorgio

Bennett, Jim

Talas, Sofia

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Jim Bennett, Sofia Talas

Colour Plates I-XIII

Cabinets for Experimental Philosophy in the Netherlands

Huib J. Zuidervaart

Entrepreneurs in Experiments: The Leiden Cabinet of Physics and the Motives of its Founders (1675-1742)

Hans Hooijmaijers, Ad Maas

New Light on the Cabinet of Physics of Padua

Sofia Talas

The Lost Cabinet of Experimental Philosophy of the University of Oxford

Jim Bennett

Failure, Fraud, and Instrument Cabinets: Academic Involvement in the Eighteenth-Century Dutch Water Crisis

Tiemen Cocquyt
The Cabinet of Physics at Riddarhuset in Stockholm in the Eighteenth Century

Inga Elmqvist Söderlund

Designing the House of Knowledge in Eighteenth-century Naples: The Ephemeral Museum of Ferdinando Spinelli, Prince of Tarsia

Paola Bertucci

Between Teaching and Collecting: The lost Cabinet of Physics of Princes José and João of Portugal (1777-1808)

Marta C. Lourenço, David Felismino

The Gazola Family’s Scientific Cabinet: Politics, Society and Scientific Collecting in the Twilight of the Republic of Venice

Ivano Dal Prete

Collections of Experimental Natural Philosophy in Eighteenth-century Poland

Ewa Wyka

“Monuments of Science”: How the Teyler Museum’s Instrument Collection Became Historical

Martin Weiss

The Physics Cabinet of the Istituto Tecnico Toscano

Paolo Brenni

General Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jim Bennett is Visiting Keeper at the Science Museum, London. He was formerly Director of the Museum of the History of Science and Professor of the History of Science in the University of Oxford. He is a previous President of the Scientific Instrument Commission.


Sofia Talas is Curator of the Museum of the History of Physics at the University of Padua. Her main research interests are in the history of scientific instruments and the history of physics. She is President of “Universeum” (European Network for University Heritage) and a board member of the History of Physics Group of the European Physical Society.