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Scientific Instruments on Display (Hardcover)
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Scientific Instruments on Display (Hardcover)
Series: Scientific Instruments and Collections, 4
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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 Debarbat, Richard Dunn, Inga Elmqvist-Soederlund,
Ingrid Jendrzejewski, Peggy A. Kidwell, Richard Kremer, Mara
Miniati, Richard A. Paselk, Donata Randazzo, Steven Turner.
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