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Titolo: | Collection, laboratory, theater : scenes of knowledge in the 17th century / / edited by Helmar Schramm, Ludger Schwarte, Jan Lazardzig |
Pubblicazione: | Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter de Gruyter, c2005 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (624 p.) |
Disciplina: | 720/.1/0509032 |
Soggetto topico: | Architecture and science - Europe - History - 17th century |
Communication in learning and scholarship - Europe - History - 17th century | |
Space (Architecture) - Europe - History - 17th century | |
Cabinets of curiosities - History - 17th century | |
Classificazione: | TB 2355 |
Altri autori: | SchrammHelmar SchwarteLudger LazardzigJan |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [541]-570) and indexes. |
Nota di contenuto: | Front matter -- Contents -- Space: The Final Frontier -- Kunstkammer - Laboratory - Theater in the 'Theatrum Europaeum': On the Transformation of Performative Space in the 17th Century -- The Virtual Laboratory: Thought Experiments in Seventeenth-Century Mechanics -- The Point: The Smallest Venue of Knowledge in the 17th Century (1585-1665) -- Anatomical Theatre as Experimental Space -- Scenes of Writing: The Florentine Uffizi as Kunstkammer, Laboratory, and Stage -- "Mentalmente architettato" - Thoughts in Physical Form: Immutable or Dynamic? The Case of the Library -- The Operatic Stage as an Experimental Space for Affections: About the Concepts of Affections Asserted by Athanasius Kircher and Claudio Monteverdi -- The Cartography of Emotions: Power, Play, and the Politics of Love in 17th Century France -- Universality and Territoriality: On the Architectonic of Academic Social Life Exemplified by the Brandenburg Universität der Völker, Wissenschaften und Künste (1666/67) -- The Known and Unknown Kunstkammer of Rudolf II -- Collections and the Surface of the Image: Pictorial Strategies in Early-Modern Wunderkammern -- Kunstkammer, Play-Palace, Shadow Theatre: Three Thought Loci by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz -- On the Representation of Knowledge in Athanasius Kircher -- Pythagorean Musical Theater: Space, Time, and Numerical Speculation in the Ancient Metaphysical Fashion -- Eucharist and Experiment: Spaces of Certainty in the 17th Century -- Artificial Intensity: Images, Instruments, and the Technology of Amplification -- The Metaphysics of Phenomena: Telescope and Microscope in the Works of Goethe, Leeuwenhoek and Hooke -- The Sixteenth-Century Mexican Missionary Convent as "Theatre of Conversion" -- Theaters of War: The Military-Entertainment Complex -- Science in its Social Space -- The Adventurous Relationship between Physics and Geometry: Newton's Space Viewed by Present-Day Physics -- Material Culture, Theoretical Culture, and Delocalization -- World-Picture and World-Theater: Wonder, Vision, Knowledge -- Back matter |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 examines the role of space in the constitution of knowledge in the early modern age. ""Kunstkammern"" (art and curiosities cabinets), laboratories and stages arose in the 17th century as instruments of research and representation. There is, however, still a lack of precise descriptions of the epis |
Titolo autorizzato: | Collection, laboratory, theater |
ISBN: | 1-282-19531-X |
9786612195310 | |
3-11-020155-0 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910824863903321 |
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