Table of Contents: Cabinets of experimental philosophy in eighteenth-century Europe

Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc.
Other Authors:	Bennett, J. A.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Leiden : Brill, 2013.
Series:	Scientific instruments and collections ; v. 3
Subjects:	Scientific apparatus and instruments > Collectors and collecting > 18th century. > Europe > History Cabinets of curiosities > History > 18th century. > Europe Science > Social aspects > 18th century. > Europe > History Physics > Social aspects > 18th century. > Europe > History Europe > Intellectual life > 18th century. Europe > Social conditions > 18th century.
Online Access:	http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10725032

Table of Contents:

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 Sθoderlund
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 Josβe and Joδao of Portugal (1777-1808) / Marta C. Lourenπco 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.