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Scientific Instruments on Display [electronic resource]

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: History of science and medicine library. Scientific instruments and collections ; ; volume 46.Publication details: Leiden : BRILL, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (265 p.)ISBN:
  • 9789004264403
  • 900426440X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Scientific Instruments on Display.DDC classification:
  • 507.4 22
LOC classification:
  • Q185 .S39 2014
Online resources:
Contents:
List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Chapter 1 Andrea Corsini and the Creation of the Museum of the History of Science in Florence (1930-1961); Chapter 2 "Not for their Beauty": Instruments and Narratives at the Science Museum, London; Chapter 3 "More Artistic than Scientific": Exhibiting Instruments as Decorative Arts in the Victoria and Albert Museum; Chapter 4 "Of Sufficient Interest . . ., but not of Such Value . . .": 260 Years of Displaying Scientific Instruments in the British Museum; Chapter 5 Instruments on Display at the Paris Observatory
Chapter 6 Looking at Scientific Instruments on Display at the United States Centennial Exhibition of 1876Chapter 7 Permanent Demonstrations: The Science Teaching Museum at the University of Chicago; Chapter 8 The Display of Twentieth-Century Instruments at Humboldt State University; Chapter 9 Slide Rules on Display in the United States, 1840-2010; Chapter 10 "Exceedingly Ridiculous": Telescopes on Display on the Seventeenth-Century Stage; Chapter 11 Instruments on Movie Sets: A Case Study; Chapter 12 Display of Instruments on Seventeenth-Century Astronomical Frontispieces; Index
Summary: This study examines the display of scientific instruments in venues beyond the laboratory or the classroom, in museums, fairs, universal exhibitions, theatres, movies, book frontispieces, and patent offices.
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List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Chapter 1 Andrea Corsini and the Creation of the Museum of the History of Science in Florence (1930-1961); Chapter 2 "Not for their Beauty": Instruments and Narratives at the Science Museum, London; Chapter 3 "More Artistic than Scientific": Exhibiting Instruments as Decorative Arts in the Victoria and Albert Museum; Chapter 4 "Of Sufficient Interest . . ., but not of Such Value . . .": 260 Years of Displaying Scientific Instruments in the British Museum; Chapter 5 Instruments on Display at the Paris Observatory

Chapter 6 Looking at Scientific Instruments on Display at the United States Centennial Exhibition of 1876Chapter 7 Permanent Demonstrations: The Science Teaching Museum at the University of Chicago; Chapter 8 The Display of Twentieth-Century Instruments at Humboldt State University; Chapter 9 Slide Rules on Display in the United States, 1840-2010; Chapter 10 "Exceedingly Ridiculous": Telescopes on Display on the Seventeenth-Century Stage; Chapter 11 Instruments on Movie Sets: A Case Study; Chapter 12 Display of Instruments on Seventeenth-Century Astronomical Frontispieces; Index

This study examines the display of scientific instruments in venues beyond the laboratory or the classroom, in museums, fairs, universal exhibitions, theatres, movies, book frontispieces, and patent offices.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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