Theatrum Scientiarum - English Edition. / Volume 2, : Instruments in Art and Science ; On the Architectonics of Cultural Boundaries in the 17th Century / / ed. by Helmar Schramm.

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• MitwirkendeR: Bachimont, Bruno,; Berns, Jörg Jochen,; Breidbach, Olaf,; Burckhardt, Martin,; Daston, Lorraine,; Didi-Huberman, Georges,; Ditzen, Stefan,; Fehrenbach, Frank,; Galison, Peter,; Gieryn, Thomas F.,; Hartung, Gerald,; Hennig, Jochen,; Ihde, Don,; Krämer, Sybille,; Lazardzig, Jan,; Mayer-Deutsch, Angela,; Mersch, Dieter,; Meyer, Andreas,; Nelle, Florian,; Restle, Conny,; Rheinberger, Hans-Jörg,; Schramm, Helmar,; Schwarte, Ludger,; Sibum, H. Otto,; Stafford, Barbara Maria,; Suthor, Nicola,; Wiesenfeldt, Gerhard,
• HerausgeberIn: Schramm, Helmar,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2014]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Theatrum Scientiarum - English Edition ; Volume 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (575 p.)

Dieser Band versammelt originäre Beiträge am Schnittpunkt von Philosophie, Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Kultur- und Theaterwissenschaft. Auf der Grundlage von Falluntersuchungen zum 17. Jahrhundert trägt er zum Verständnis der Rolle bei, die Instrumente im Schnittfeld von Wissenschaft und Kunst spielen....

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Editors’ Preface
• Contents
• Introduction: The Hand as “instrumentum instrumentorum”
• Intersections: Some Thoughts on Instruments and Objects in the Experimental Context of the Life Sciences
• Representation and Distortion: On the Construction of Rationality and Irrationality in Early Modern Modes of Representation
• World Orders and Corporal Worlds: Robert Fludd’s Tableau of Knowing and its Representation
• Telescope, Theater, and the Instrumental Revelation of New Worlds
• The Pathos of Function: Leonardo’s Technical Drawings
• “Il pennello artificioso”: On the Intelligence of the Brushstroke
• The Enlightenment “Catholization” of Projective Technology: Theurgy and the Media Origins of Art
• The Machine as Spectacle: Function and Admiration in Seventeenth-Century Perspectives on Machines
• The Anatomy of the Brain as Instrumentalization of Reason
• The “Chymistry Laboratory”: On the Function of the Experiment in Seventeenth-Century Scientific Discourse
• The Order of Knowledge, of Instruments, and of Leiden University, ca. 1700
• The Ideal Musaeum Kircherianum and the Ignatian Exercitia spiritualia
• Organology: The Study of Musical Instruments in the 17th Century
• In Sound Similar to the Harps: Early Descriptions of African Musical Instruments
• Machines, Bats, and Scholars: Experimental Knowledge in the Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
• Scientific Coordination as Ethos and Epistemology
• Breaking, Grinding, Burning: Instrumental Aspects in Early Microscopical Pictures
• The Instrument in the Image: Revealing and Concealing the Condition of the Probing Tip in Scanning Tunneling Microscopic Image Design
• Formal Signs and Numerical Computation: Between Intuitionism and Formalism. Critique of Computational Reason
• Art Precedes Science: or Did the Camera Obscura Invent Modern Science?
• Instrumentalities of Place in Science and Art
• The Eye Opens, the Lamp Goes Out: Remarks on Bergson and Cinematography
• The Illusion of Power: Central Bank Money
• The Productivity of Blanks: On the Mathematical Zero and the Vanishing Point in Central Perspective. Remarks on the Convergences between Science and Art in the Early Modern Period
• Instrumental Sound and Ruling Spaces of Resonance in the Early Modern Period: On the Acoustic Setting of the Princely potestas Claims within a Ceremonial Frame
• About the Authors
• Image Credits
• Bibliography
• Index of Names
• Index of Subjects