| Description |
xxiii, 253 p., xiii p. of plates : ill. (some col.). |
| Series |
History of science and medicine library, 1872-0684 ; v. 40
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Scientific instruments and collections ; v. 3 |
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History of science and medicine library. Scientific instruments and collections ; v. 3.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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 Soderlund -- 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 Jose and Joao of Portugal (1777-1808) / Marta C. Lourenco 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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Scientific apparatus and instruments -- Collectors and collecting -- Europe -- History -- 18th century.
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Cabinets of curiosities -- Europe -- History -- 18th century.
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Science -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History -- 18th century.
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Physics -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History -- 18th century.
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Europe -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
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Europe -- Social conditions -- 18th century.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Bennett, J. A. (James A.)
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Talas, Sofia.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9789004252967 (hardback : acid-free paper) |
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9789004252974 (electronic bk.) |
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