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Cabinets of experimental philosophy in eighteenth-century Europe

Cabinets of Experimental Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Europe explains how collections of instruments for demonstrating the principles of Newtonian science were offered successfully to a broad public audience and formed the basis of an intellectual, educational and cultural movement that spread across Europe
eBook, English, 2013
Brill, Leiden, 2013
History
1 online resource
9789004252974, 9781299691261, 9789004252967, 9004252975, 1299691269, 9004252967
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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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