| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 218 pages, 13 pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
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History of science and medicine library, 1872-0684 ; volume 10. Scientific instruments and collections ; volume 1 |
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History of science and medicine library ; v. 10.
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History of science and medicine library. Scientific instruments and collections ; v. 1.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Science -- Europe -- History
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Science, Renaissance.
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Scientific apparatus and instruments -- Europe -- History
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Technical & Manufacturing Industries & Trades.
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Science
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Science, Renaissance
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Scientific apparatus and instruments
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Wissenschaftliches Instrument.
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Messgerät.
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Sammlung.
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Europe
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Europa.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Strano, Giorgio.
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| LC no. |
2008047446 |
| ISBN |
9789047426172 |
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9047426177 |
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