This volume launches a new, eight-volume series entitled Theatrum
Scientiarum on the history of science and the media which has
arisen from the work of the Berlin special research project on
"Performative Cultures" under the aegis of the Theatre Studies
Department of the Free University. The volume, authored by
distinguished academics, examines the role of space in the
constitution of knowledge in the early modern age. Kunstkammern
(art and curiosities cabinets), laboratories and stages arise in
the 17th century as instruments of research and representation.
There is, however, still a lack of precise descriptions of the
epistemic contribution made by material and immaterial space in the
performance of knowledge. Therefore, the authors of this volume
present a novel view of the conditions surrounding the creation of
these spatial forms. Account is taken both to the institutional
framework of these spaces and their placement within the history of
ideas, the architectural models and the modular differentiations,
and to the scientific consequences of particular design decisions.
Manifold paths are followed between the location of the observer in
the representational space of science and the organisation in time
and space of sight, speech and action in the canon of European
theatrical forms. An account is given not only of the mutual
architectural and intellectual influence of the spaces of knowledge
and the performance spaces of art; they are also analysed to
ascertain what was possible in them and through them.
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