Scientific instruments on display / edited by Silke Ackermann, Richard L. Kremer, Mara Miniati.

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014]

xxxiv, 231 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm.

Introduction / Silke Ackermann, Richard L. Kremer and Mara Miniati -- Andrea Corsini and the creation of the Museum of the History of Science in Florence (1930-1961) / Marco Beretta -- "Not for their beauty": instruments and narratives at the Science Museum, London / Alison Boyle -- "More artistic than scientific": exhibiting instruments as decorative arts in the Victoria and Albert Museum / Richard Dunn -- "Of sufficient interest..., but not of such value...": 260 years of displaying scientific instruments in the British Museum / Silke Ackermann -- Instruments on display at the Paris Observatory / Laurence Bobis and Suzanne Débarbat -- Looking at scientific instruments on display at the United States centennial exhibition of 1876 / Richard L. Kremer -- Permanent demonstrations: the Science Teaching Museum at the University of Chicago / Steven C. Turner -- The display of twentieth-century instruments at Humboldt State University / Richard A. Paselk -- Slide rules on display in the United States, 1840-2010 / Peggy Aldrich Kidwell and Amy Ackerberg-Hastings -- "Exceedingly ridiculous": telescopes on display on the seventeenth-century stage / Ingrid Jendrzejewski -- Instruments on movie sets: a case study / Ileana Chinnici, Donatella Randazzo and Fausto Casi -- Display of instruments on seventeenth-century astronomical frontispieces / Inga Elmqvist Söderlund.

Includes bibliographical references and index.