{"product_id":"scientific-instruments-on-display-9789004264397","title":"Scientific Instruments on Display","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Several papers in this volume present excruciating details concerning the struggles that various people have faced when trying to get historic scientific instruments onto exhibit and keeping them there. Seldom, however, do they grapple with the question of why anyone, other than the odd collector, curator or historian of technology, should want to look at these instruments.\"   - At: http:\/\/www.erittenhouse.org\/reviews\/, by Deborah Jean Warner, curator at the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History, Washington and the founding editor of Rittenhouse, the forerunner of eRittenhouse.    “The book […] can be put to use by scholars interested in the history of science, scientific instruments,  material culture, museums and the history of science in public. It joins a growing literature that reveals a desire to bring such studies together for their mutual benefit.”  - Rebekah Higgit (University of Kent), The British Journal for the History of Science, 2015, 697-699 pp.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations   Notes on Contributors   Introduction  Silke Ackermann, Richard L. Kremer and Mara Miniati   Colour Plates   1. Andrea Corsini and the Creation of the Museum of the History of Science in Florence (1930-1961)   Marco Beretta   2. “Not for their beauty”: Instruments and narratives at the Science Museum, London    Alyson Boyle   3. “More Artistic than Scientific”: Exhibiting Instruments as Decorative Arts in the Victoria \u0026amp; Albert Museum   Richard Dunn   4. “Of sufficient interest …, but not of such value …”: 260 Years of Displaying Scientific Instruments in the British Museum   Silke Ackermann   5. Instruments on Display at the Paris Observatory   Laurence Bobis and Suzanne Débarbat   6. Looking at Scientific Instruments on Display at the United States Centennial Exhibition of 1876   Richard L. Kremer   7. Permanent Demonstrations: The Science Teaching Museum at the University of Chicago   Steven C. Turner   8. The Display of Twentieth-Century Instruments at Humboldt State University   Richard A. Paselk   9. Slide Rules on Display in the United States, 1840-2010   Peggy Aldrich Kidwell and Amy Ackerberg-Hastings   10. “Exceedingly Ridiculous”: Telescopes on Displayon the Seventeenth-Century Stage   Ingrid Jendrzejewski   11. Instruments on Movie Sets: A Case Study   Ileana Chinnici, Donatella Randazzo and Fausto Casi   12. Display of Instruments on Seventeenth Century Astronomical Frontispieces   Inga Elmqvist Söderlund   General Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210645496151,"sku":"9789004264397","price":132.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/scientific-instruments-on-display-9789004264397","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}