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European collections of scientific instruments, 1550-1750 /
These selected studies on sixteenth and eighteenth centuries European collections of scientific instruments, which were part of the princely 'wunderkammern', delineate an up-to-date-panorama about the formation of the most important museums of the history of science.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston :
Brill,
2009.
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| Colección: | History of science and medicine library ;
v. 10. History of science and medicine library. Scientific instruments and collections ; v. 1. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Mathematical Instruments of Wenzel Jamnitzer (1508-1585); Christoph Schissler: The Elector's Dealer; Some Lesser-Known Dresden Instrument Makers of the Seventeenth Century; Waywisers of Elector August of Saxony and their New Use in the Survey of Saxon Postal Roads; Optical Objects in the Dresden Kunstkammer: Lucas Brunn and the Courtly Display of Knowledge; "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?; Philip II's Escorial and its Collection of Scientific Instruments; Medici Collection of Mathematical Instruments: History and Museography; Scientific Instruments and the Legacy of Johannes Broscius, Professor of the Krakow Academy; Scientifica of the Petersburg Kunstkamera as the Instruments for the Introduction of New European Knowledge in Russia; Central European Instruments 1500-1800 in the Collections of the National Maritime Museum and Royal Observatory Greenwich: A Study in the History of Collecting; Collecting Taste: Italian Case-Studies between the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.