Cabinets of experimental philosophy in eighteenth-century Europe

Cabinets of experimental philosophy in eighteenth-century Europe [electronic resource] / edited by Jim Bennett and Sofia Talas. - Leiden : Brill, 2013. - xxiii, 253 p., xiii p. of plates : ill. (some col.). - History of science and medicine library, v. 40 1872-0684 ; . - Scientific instruments and collections ; v. 3 . - History of science and medicine library. Scientific instruments and collections ; v. 3. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


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Scientific apparatus and instruments--Collectors and collecting--History--Europe--18th century.
Cabinets of curiosities--History--Europe--18th century.
Science--Social aspects--History--Europe--18th century.
Physics--Social aspects--History--Europe--18th century.


Europe--Intellectual life--18th century.
Europe--Social conditions--18th century.


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