| Scientific Instruments on Display Contributor(s): Ackermann, Silke, Kremer, Richard, Miniati, Mara |
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ISBN: 9004264396 ISBN-13: 9789004264397 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $157.70 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Renaissance - Science | Study & Teaching - Science | History |
| Dewey: 507.4 |
| Series: Scientific Instruments and Collections |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.3" W x 9.4" (1.20 lbs) 268 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: During their active lives, scientific instruments generally inhabit the laboratory, observatory, classroom or the field. But instruments have also lived in a wider set of venues, as objects on display. As such, they acquire new levels of meaning; their cultural functions expand. This book offers selected studies of instruments on display in museums, national fairs, universal exhibitions, patent offices, book frontispieces, theatrical stages, movie sets, and on-line collections. The authors argue that these displays, as they have changed with time, reflect changing social attitudes towards the objects themselves and toward science and its heritage. By bringing display to the center of analysis, the collection offers a new and ambitious framework for the study of scientific instruments and the material culture of science. Contributors are: Amy Ackerberg-Hastings, Silke Ackermann, Marco Beretta, Laurence Bobis, Alison Boyle, Fausto Casi, Ileana Chinnici, Suzanne D barbat, Richard Dunn, Inga Elmqvist-S derlund, Ingrid Jendrzejewski, Peggy A. Kidwell, Richard Kremer, Mara Miniati, Richard A. Paselk, Donata Randazzo, Steven Turner. |