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245 0 0 _aScientific Instruments on Display
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300 _a1 online resource (265 p.)
490 1 _aScientific Instruments and Collections ;
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588 0 _aPrint version record.
505 0 _aList 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
505 8 _aChapter 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
520 _aThis 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.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
650 0 _aScientific apparatus and instruments.
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650 0 _aExhibitions
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700 1 _aAckermann, Silke.
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700 1 _aKremer, Richard.
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700 1 _aMiniati, Mara.
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830 0 _aHistory of science and medicine library.
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