Collection, laboratory, theater : scenes of knowledge in the 17th century / edited by Helmar Schramm, Ludger Schwarte, Jan Lazardzig.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 541-570) and indexes.

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Machine derived contents note: Contents -- Preface of the Editors -- Contents -- Helmar Schramm -- Introduction: Place and Trace in Theatrum Scientiarum -- Andrew Pickering -- Space: The Final Frontier -- Helmar Schramm -- Kunstkammer -- Laboratory -- Theater in the 'Theatrum Europaeum': -- On the Transformation of Performative Space in the 17th Century -- James W. McAllister -- The Virtual Laboratory: Thought Experiments in Seventeenth-Century -- Mechanics -- Wolfgang Schäffner -- The Point: The Smallest Venue of Knowledge in the 17th Century -- (1585-1665) -- Ludger Schwarte -- Anatomical Theatre as Experimental Space -- Hans-Christian von Herrmann -- Scenes of Writing: The Florentine Uffizi as Kunstkammer, Laboratory, -- and Stage -- Werner Oechslin -- "Mentalmente architettato" -- Thoughts in Physical Form: Immutable or -- Dynamic? The Case of the Library -- Clemens Risi -- The Operatic Stage as an Experimental Space for Affections: -- About the Concepts of Affections Asserted by Athanasius Kircher and -- Claudio Monteverdi -- V -- Vii -- Xi -- 1 -- 9 -- 35 -- 57 -- 75 -- 103 -- 122 -- 146 -- Contents VIII -- Doris Kolesch -- The Cartography of Emotions: Power, Play, and the Politics of Love in -- 17th Century France -- Jan Lazardzig -- Universality and Territoriality: On the Architectonic of Academic -- Social Life Exemplified by the Brandenburg Universität der Völker, -- Wissenschaften und Künste (1666/67) -- Beket Bukovinsk -- The Known and Unknown Kunstkammer of Rudolf II -- Robert Felfe -- Collections and the Surface of the Image: Pictorial Strategies in Early- -- Modern Wunderkammern -- Horst Bredekamp -- Kunstkammer, Play-Palace, Shadow Theatre: Three Thought Loci by -- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz -- Olaf Breidbach -- On the Representation of Knowledge in Athanasius Kircher -- Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann -- Pythagorean Musical Theater: Space, Time, and Numerical Speculation -- in the Ancient Metaphysical Fashion -- Florian Nelle -- Eucharist and Experiment: Spaces of Certainty in the 17th Century -- Barbara Maria Stafford -- Artificial Intensity: Images, Instruments, and the Technology of -- Amplification -- Hartmut Böhme -- The Metaphysics of Phenomena: Telescope and Microscope in the -- Works of Goethe, Leeuwenhoek and Hooke -- Samuel Y. Edgerton -- The Sixteenth-Century Mexican Missionary Convent as "Theatre of -- Conversion" -- Timothy Lenoir/Henry Lowood -- Theaters of War: The Military-Entertainment Complex -- Harry Collins -- Science in its Social Space -- 162 -- 176 -- 199 -- 228 -- 266 -- 283 -- 303 -- 316 -- 338 -- 355 -- 394 -- 427 -- 457 -- Contents IX -- Rainer Gruber -- The Adventurous Relationship between Physics and Geometry: -- Newton's Space Viewed by Present-Day Physics -- Peter Galison -- Material Culture, Theoretical Culture, and Delocalization -- Karsten Harries -- World-Picture and World-Theater: Wonder, Vision, Knowledge -- About the Authors -- Image Credits -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects -- 467 -- 490 -- 507 -- 527 -- 533 -- 541 -- 571 -- 577.

This volume launches a new, eight-volume series entitled Theatrum Scientiarum on the history of science and the media which has arisen from the work of the Berlin special research project on ""Performative Cultures"" under the aegis of the Theatre Studies Department of the Free University. The volume examines the role of space in the constitution of knowledge in the early modern age. ""Kunstkammern"" (art and curiosities cabinets), laboratories and stages arose in the 17th century as instruments of research and representation. There is, however, still a lack of precise descriptions of the epis

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