European Collections of Scientific Instruments, 1550-1750
Published on 28. February 2009
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XXXVIII, 220 pages
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All those interested in the history of science and technology, the history of scientific instruments (from the Renaissance upto the eighteenth century), the institutional and social history of museums and museology.
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Giorgio Strano | Stephen Johnston | Mara Miniati
European Collections of Scientific Instruments, 1550-1750
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Giorgio Strano, Ph.D. (2003) in History of Science, University of Florence, is Curator of the Collections at the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza in Florence. He has published extensively on the history of astronomy, including 'Galileo's Telescope' (2008).
Stephen Johnston, Ph.D. (1994) in History of Science, University of Cambridge, is Assistant Keeper at the Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford. His publications focus on instruments and practical mathematics from the sixteenth to the ninetheenth centuries.
Mara Miniati, Curator emeritus at the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza in Florence, has authored more than one hundred publications. In March 1993, she was awarded the Paul Bunge Prize, an international award for historians of scientific instruments.
Alison Morrison-Low, D. Phil (2000) in Economic History with Physics, University of York, Principal Curator of Science at National Museums Scotland since 1980. Her recent publications explore the English instrument trade, for which she won the 2008 Paul Bunge Prize.
Stephen Johnston, Ph.D. (1994) in History of Science, University of Cambridge, is Assistant Keeper at the Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford. His publications focus on instruments and practical mathematics from the sixteenth to the ninetheenth centuries.
Mara Miniati, Curator emeritus at the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza in Florence, has authored more than one hundred publications. In March 1993, she was awarded the Paul Bunge Prize, an international award for historians of scientific instruments.
Alison Morrison-Low, D. Phil (2000) in Economic History with Physics, University of York, Principal Curator of Science at National Museums Scotland since 1980. Her recent publications explore the English instrument trade, for which she won the 2008 Paul Bunge Prize.
Content
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Presentation, 'Paolo Brenni'
Introduction, 'Giorgio Strano'
1. The Mathematical Instruments of Wenzel Jamnitzer (1508-1585), 'Sven Hauschke'
2. Christoph Schissler: The Elector's Dealer, 'Peter Plaßmeyer'
3. Some Lesser-Known Dresden Instrument Makers of the Seventeenth Century, 'Klaus Schillinger'
4. The Waywisers of Elector August of Saxony and their New Use in the Survey of Saxon Postal Roads, ' Wolfram Dolz'
5. Optical Objects in the Dresden 'Kunstkammer': Lucas Brunn and the Courtly Display of Knowledge, 'Sven Dupré and Michael Korey'
6. "The First European Observatory of the Sixteenth Century, as Founded by Landgrave Wilhelm IV of Hessen-Kassel": A Serious Historiographic Category or a Misleading Marketing Device?, 'Karsten Gaulke'
7. Philip II's Escorial and its Collection of Scientific Instruments, 'Koenraad Van Cleempoel'
8. The Medici Collection of Mathematical Instruments: History and Museography, 'Filippo Camerota'
9. Scientific Instruments and the Legacy of Johannes Broscius, Professor of the Krakow Academy, 'Ewa Wyka'
10. 'Scientifica' of the Petersburg 'Kunstkamera' as the Instruments for the Introduction of New European Knowledge in Russia, 'Tatiana M. Moisseeva'
12. The Central European Instruments 1500-1800 in the Collections of the National Maritime Museum and Royal Observatory Greenwich: A Study in the History of Collecting, 'Gloria Clifton'
13. The Collecting Taste: Italian Case-Studies between the Nineteeth and TwentiethCenturies, 'Mara Miniati'
Index
Notes on Contributors
Presentation, 'Paolo Brenni'
Introduction, 'Giorgio Strano'
1. The Mathematical Instruments of Wenzel Jamnitzer (1508-1585), 'Sven Hauschke'
2. Christoph Schissler: The Elector's Dealer, 'Peter Plaßmeyer'
3. Some Lesser-Known Dresden Instrument Makers of the Seventeenth Century, 'Klaus Schillinger'
4. The Waywisers of Elector August of Saxony and their New Use in the Survey of Saxon Postal Roads, ' Wolfram Dolz'
5. Optical Objects in the Dresden 'Kunstkammer': Lucas Brunn and the Courtly Display of Knowledge, 'Sven Dupré and Michael Korey'
6. "The First European Observatory of the Sixteenth Century, as Founded by Landgrave Wilhelm IV of Hessen-Kassel": A Serious Historiographic Category or a Misleading Marketing Device?, 'Karsten Gaulke'
7. Philip II's Escorial and its Collection of Scientific Instruments, 'Koenraad Van Cleempoel'
8. The Medici Collection of Mathematical Instruments: History and Museography, 'Filippo Camerota'
9. Scientific Instruments and the Legacy of Johannes Broscius, Professor of the Krakow Academy, 'Ewa Wyka'
10. 'Scientifica' of the Petersburg 'Kunstkamera' as the Instruments for the Introduction of New European Knowledge in Russia, 'Tatiana M. Moisseeva'
12. The Central European Instruments 1500-1800 in the Collections of the National Maritime Museum and Royal Observatory Greenwich: A Study in the History of Collecting, 'Gloria Clifton'
13. The Collecting Taste: Italian Case-Studies between the Nineteeth and TwentiethCenturies, 'Mara Miniati'
Index