Cabinets of experimental philosophy in eighteenth-century Europe / edited by Jim Bennett and Sofia Talas.

• Superior document: Scientific instruments and collections ; v. 3
• TeilnehmendeR: Bennett, J. A.; Talas, Sofia.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: History of science and medicine library, v. 40; History of science and medicine library. Scientific instruments and collections ; v. 3.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (292 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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....

Table of Contents

• 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 and 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 and 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.