Scientific instruments on display / / edited by Silke Ackermann, Richard L. Kremer, Mara Miniati.
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 sel...
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| Superior document: | Scientific instruments and collections ; Volume 4 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014. ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | History of science and medicine library. Scientific instruments and collections ;
Volume 4. History of science and medicine library ; Volume 46. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (265 p.) |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- 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 / Alison Boyle
- 3 “More Artistic than Scientific”: Exhibiting Instruments as Decorative Arts in the Victoria and 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 Débarbat
- 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 Display on 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 Söderlund
- Index.