Scientific Instruments on DisplayDuring 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 selected studies of instruments on display in museums, national fairs, universal exhibitions, patent offices, book frontispieces, theatrical stages, movie sets, and on-line collections. The authors argue that these displays, as they have changed with time, reflect changing social attitudes towards the objects themselves and toward science and its heritage. By bringing display to the center of analysis, the collection offers a new and ambitious framework for the study of scientific instruments and the material culture of science. Contributors are: Amy Ackerberg-Hastings, Silke Ackermann, Marco Beretta, Laurence Bobis, Alison Boyle, Fausto Casi, Ileana Chinnici, Suzanne Débarbat, Richard Dunn, Inga Elmqvist-Söderlund, Ingrid Jendrzejewski, Peggy A. Kidwell, Richard Kremer, Mara Miniati, Richard A. Paselk, Donata Randazzo, Steven Turner. |
Contents
Chapter 1 Andrea Corsini and the Creation of the Museum of the History of Science in Florence 19301961
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Instruments and Narratives at the Science Museum London
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Exhibiting Instruments as Decorative Arts in the Victoria and Albert Museum
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260 Years of Displaying Scientific Instruments in the British Museum
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Chapter 5 Instruments on Display at the Paris Observatory
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Chapter 6 Looking at Scientific Instruments on Display at the United States Centennial Exhibition of 1876
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The Science Teaching Museum at the University of Chicago
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Chapter 8 The Display of TwentiethCentury Instruments at Humboldt State University
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Chapter 9 Slide Rules on Display in the United States 18402010
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Telescopes on Display on the SeventeenthCentury Stage
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A Case Study
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Chapter 12 Display of Instruments on SeventeenthCentury Astronomical Frontispieces
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Scientific Instruments on Display Silke Ackermann,Richard Lynn Kremer,Mara Miniati No preview available - 2014 |
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