Collection, laboratory, theater : scenes of knowledge in the 17th century / edited by Helmar Schramm, Ludger Schwarte, Jan Lazardzig.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schramm, Helmar.

Schwarte, Ludger.

Lazardzig, Jan.

Series:

Theatrum scientiarum: English edition ; v. 1.

Theatrum scientiarum: English edition ; v. 1

Standardized Title:

Kunstkammer, Laboratorium, Bühne. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture and science--Europe--History--17th century.

Architecture and science.

Communication in learning and scholarship--Europe--History--17th century.

Communication in learning and scholarship.

Space (Architecture)--Europe--History--17th century.

Space (Architecture).

Cabinets of curiosities--History--17th century.

Cabinets of curiosities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (624 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [541]-570) and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612195310

9781282195318

128219531X

9783110201550

3110201550

OCLC:

191926273