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Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004264403
This study examines the display of scientific instruments in venues beyond the laboratory or the classroom, in museums, fairs, universal exhibitions, theatres, movies, book frontispieces, and patent offices.
Author : Silke Ackermann,Richard Lynn Kremer,Mara Miniati
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Exhibitions
ISBN : OCLC:1241881139
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 Débarbat, Richard Dunn, Inga Elmqvist-Söderlund, Ingrid Jendrzejewski, Peggy A. Kidwell, Richard Kremer, Mara Miniati, Richard A. Paselk, Donata Randazzo, Steven Turner.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004499676
When science’s “black boxes” are pried open, its workings become accessible. Like time-travellers into history but grounded in today’s cultures, learners interact directly with authentic instruments and replicas. Chapters describe educational experiences sparked through collaborations interrelating museum, school and university.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004412842
Scientific Instruments between East and West is a collection of essays on the transmission of knowledge about scientific instruments and the trade in such instruments between the Eastern and Western worlds.
Author : United States. Bureau of International Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Instrument industry
ISBN : UCSD:31822027499268
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047426172
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.
Author : Jim Harter
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780486997759
Selected from hard-to-find 19th-century sources, these 436 black-and-white engravings cover the spectrum of scientific study: prisms, gyroscopes, barometers, pendulums, astrolabes, telescopes, microscopes, and many other instruments."
Author : Bas de Boer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781793627858
Science is highly dependent on technologies to observe scientific objects. For example, astronomers need telescopes to observe planetary movements, and cognitive neuroscience depends on brain imaging technologies to investigate human cognition. But how do such technologies shape scientific practice, and how do new scientific objects come into being when new technologies are used in science? In How Scientific Instruments Speak, Bas de Boer develops a philosophical account of how technologies shape the reality that scientists study, arguing that we should understand scientific instruments as mediating technologies. Rather than mute tools serving pre-existing human goals, scientific instruments play an active role in shaping scientific work. De Boer uses this account to discuss how brain imaging and stimulation technologies mediate the way in which cognitive neuroscientists investigate human cognitive functions. The development of cognitive neuroscience runs parallel with the development of advanced brain imaging technologies, drawing a lot of public attention—sometimes called “neurohype”—because of its alleged capacity to demystify the human mind. By analyzing how the objects that cognitive neuroscientists study are mediated by brain imaging technologies, de Boer explicates the processes by which human cognition is investigated.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004324930
This collection of essays discusses the marketing of scientific and medical instruments from the eighteenth century to the First World War. It features case-studies from the United Kingdom, the Americas and Europe.
Author : Herbert John Cooper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Scientific apparatus and instruments
ISBN : WISC:89055266910
Author : Davis Baird
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004-02-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780520928206
Western philosophers have traditionally concentrated on theory as the means for expressing knowledge about a variety of phenomena. This absorbing book challenges this fundamental notion by showing how objects themselves, specifically scientific instruments, can express knowledge. As he considers numerous intriguing examples, Davis Baird gives us the tools to "read" the material products of science and technology and to understand their place in culture. Making a provocative and original challenge to our conception of knowledge itself, Thing Knowledge demands that we take a new look at theories of science and technology, knowledge, progress, and change. Baird considers a wide range of instruments, including Faraday's first electric motor, eighteenth-century mechanical models of the solar system, the cyclotron, various instruments developed by analytical chemists between 1930 and 1960, spectrometers, and more.
Author : Charles Mollan
Publisher : Charles Mollan
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1995-11-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781898706052
Carried out over a period of ten years, this is a listing of scientific instruments dating before 1920, preserved in many collections throughout the island of Ireland. It gives location, date, and description for each of the more than 5,000 entries, together, where appropriate, with relevant accompanying detail. It demonstrates clearly that Ireland has an important resource which hitherto had not been appreciated. It also preserves information about collections which have since been lost, sold, or otherwise dispersed.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Science
ISBN : CHI:096101022
Author : Jean-François Gauvin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004504615
In a bid to claim ‘scientific objects’ as requiring a significant amount of conceptual labor, this book looks sequentially at instruments, habits, and museums. The goal is to uncover how, together, these material and immaterial activities, rules, and commitments form one meaningful and credible blueprint revealing the building blocks of knowledge production. They serve to conceptualize and examine the entire life of an instrument: from its ideation and craft to its use, reuse, circulation, recycling, and (if not obliterated) its final entry into a museum. It is such an epistemological triptych that guides this investigation.
Author : Helen Hills
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317088684
Early modern Naples has been characterized as a marginal, wild and exotic place on the fringes of the European world, and as such an appropriate target of attempts, by Catholic missionaries and others, to ’civilize’ the city. Historiographically bypassed in favour of Venice, Florence and Rome, Naples is frequently seen as emblematic of the cultural and political decline in the Italian peninsula and as epitomizing the problems of southern Italy. Yet, as this volume makes plain, such views blind us to some of its most extraordinary qualities, and limit our understanding, not only of one of the world's great capital cities, but also of the wider social, cultural and political dynamics of early modern Europe. As the centre of Spanish colonial power within Europe during the vicerealty, and with a population second only to Paris in early modern Europe, Naples is a city that deserves serious study. Further, as a Habsburg dominion, it offers vital points of comparison with non-European sites which were subject to European colonialism. While European colonization outside Europe has received intense scholarly attention, its cultural impact and representation within Europe remain under-explored. Too much has been taken for granted. Too few questions have been posed. In the sphere of the visual arts, investigation reveals that Neapolitan urbanism, architecture, painting and sculpture were of the highest quality during this period, while differing significantly from those of other Italian cities. For long ignored or treated as the subaltern sister of Rome, this urban treasure house is only now receiving the attention from scholars that it has so long deserved. This volume addresses the central paradoxes operating in early modern Italian scholarship. It seeks to illuminate both the historiographical pressures that have marginalized Naples and to showcase important new developments in Neapolitan cultural history and art history. Those developments showcased here include bot
