Cabinets of experimental philosophy in eighteenth-century Europe / edited by Jim A. Bennett and Sofia Talas.
Material type: TextSeries: History of science and medicine library ; v. 40. | History of science and medicine library. Scientific instruments and collections ; ; v. 3.Publication details: Leiden : Brill, 2013.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
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- online resource
- 9789004252974
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- 1299691269
- 9781299691261
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- 9789004252967
- Scientific apparatus and instruments -- Collectors and collecting -- Europe -- History -- 18th century
- Cabinets of curiosities -- Europe -- History -- 18th century
- Science -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History -- 18th century
- Physics -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History -- 18th century
- Europe -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
- Europe -- Social conditions -- 18th century
- Appareils et instruments scientifiques -- Collectionneurs et collections -- Europe -- Histoire -- 18e siècle
- Cabinets d'amateurs -- Europe -- Histoire -- 18e siècle
- Sciences -- Aspect social -- Europe -- Histoire -- 18e siècle
- Physique -- Aspect social -- Europe -- Histoire -- 18e siècle
- Europe -- Vie intellectuelle -- 18e siècle
- Europe -- Conditions sociales -- 18e siècle
- SCIENCE -- Research & Methodology
- Cabinets of curiosities
- Intellectual life
- Physics -- Social aspects
- Science -- Social aspects
- Scientific apparatus and instruments -- Collectors and collecting
- Social conditions
- Europe
- 1700-1799
- 507.2/04 507.204 22
- Q185
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Cabinets of Experimental Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Europe explains how collections of instruments for demonstrating the principles of Newtonian science were offered successfully to a broad public audience and formed the basis of an intellectual, educational and cultural movement that spread across Europe.
Print version record.
Cabinets for Experimental Philosophy in the Netherlands / Huib J. Zuidervaart -- Entrepreneurs in Experiments : The Leiden Cabinet of Physics and the Motives of its Founders (1675-1742) / Hans Hooijmaijers and Ad Maas -- New Light on the Cabinet of Physics of Padua / Sofia Talas -- The Lost Cabinet of Experimental Philosophy of the University of Oxford / Jim Bennett -- Failure, Fraud and Instrument Cabinets : Academic Involvement in the Eighteenth-Century Dutch Water Crisis / Tiemen Cocquyt -- The Cabinet of Physics at Riddarhuset in Stockholm in the Eighteenth Century / Inga Elmqvist Söderlund -- Designing the House of Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Naples : The Ephemeral Museum of Ferdinando Spinelli, Prince of Tarsia / Paola Bertucci -- Between Teaching and Collecting : The Lost Cabinet of Physics of Princes José and João of Portugal (1777-1808) / Marta C. Lourenço and David Felismino -- The Gazola Family's Scientific Cabinet : Politics, Society and Scientific Collecting in the Twilight of the Republic of Venice / Ivano Dal Prete -- Collections of Experimental Natural Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Poland / Ewa Wyka -- "Monuments of Science" : How the Teyler Museum's Instrument Collection Became Historical / Martin Weiss -- The Physics Cabinet of the Istituto Tecnico Toscano / Paolo Brenni.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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