European Collections of Scientific Instruments, 1550-1750

Name: European Collections of Scientific Instruments, 1550-1750
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ISBN: 9789004172708

ISBN-10: 900417270X

ISBN-13: 9789004172708

Edition: 2009

Authors: Giorgio Strano, Stephen Johnston, Mara Miniati, Alison D. Morrison-Low

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Book details

List price: $176.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: BRILL
Publication date: 1/26/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 220
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.45" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.254



List of Illustrations


Notes on Contributors


Foreword



Introduction



Colour Plates I-XIII


The Mathematical Instruments of Wenzel Jamnitzer (1508-1585)



Christoph Schissler: The Elector's Dealer



Some Lesser-Known Dresden Instrument Makers of the Seventeenth Century



The 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



"The First European Observatory of the Sixteenth Century, as Founded by Landgrave Wilhelm IV of Hesse-Kassel": A Serious Historiographic Category or a Misleading Marketing Device?



Phillip II's Escorial and its Collection of Scientific Instruments



The 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



The Central European Instruments 1500-1800 in the Collections of the National Maritime Museum and Royal Observatory, Greenwich: A Study in the History of Collecting



The Collecting Taste: Italian Case-Studies between the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries



General Index