Volume 1 Collection - Laboratory - Theater: Scenes of Knowledge in the 17th Century

Published by De Gruyter 2005

Volume 1 Collection - Laboratory - Theater

Scenes of Knowledge in the 17th Century

Edited by: Helmar Schramm , Ludger Schwarte and Jan Lazardzig

Part of the multi-volume work Theatrum Scientiarum - English Edition

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110201550

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About this book

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 epistemic contribution made by material and immaterial space in the performance of knowledge. Therefore, the authors present a novel view of the conditions surrounding the creation of these spatial forms. Account is taken both of the institutional framework of these spaces and their placement within the history of ideas, the architectural models and the modular differentiations, and the scientific consequences of particular design decisions. Manifold paths are followed between the location of the observer in the representational space of science and the organization in time and space of sight, speech and action in the canon of European theatrical forms. Not only is an account given of the mutual architectural and intellectual influence of the spaces of knowledge and the performance spaces of art; they are also analyzed to ascertain what was possible in them and through them.

This volume is the English translation of Kunstkammer, Laboratorium, Bühne (de Gruyter, Berlin, 2003).

Author / Editor information

Helmar Schramm is Professor at the Theatre Studies Institute of the Free University of Berlin, Germany.
Ludger Schwarte and Jan Lazardzig are research fellows in the interdisciplinary Berlin special research project on "Performative Cultures" at the Free University of Berlin, Germany.

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	I
Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	VII
Space: The Final Frontier Andrew Pickering Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Kunstkammer – Laboratory – Theater in the ‘Theatrum Europaeum’: On the Transformation of Performative Space in the 17th Century Helmar Schramm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
The Virtual Laboratory: Thought Experiments in Seventeenth-Century Mechanics James W. McAllister Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
The Point: The Smallest Venue of Knowledge in the 17th Century (1585-1665) Wolfgang Schäffner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
Anatomical Theatre as Experimental Space Ludger Schwarte Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
Scenes of Writing: The Florentine Uffizi as Kunstkammer, Laboratory, and Stage Hans-Christian Herrmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
“Mentalmente architettato” – Thoughts in Physical Form: Immutable or Dynamic? The Case of the Library Werner Oechslin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
The Operatic Stage as an Experimental Space for Affections: About the Concepts of Affections Asserted by Athanasius Kircher and Claudio Monteverdi Clemens Risi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	146
The Cartography of Emotions: Power, Play, and the Politics of Love in 17th Century France Doris Kolesch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	162
Universality and Territoriality: On the Architectonic of Academic Social Life Exemplified by the Brandenburg Universität der Völker, Wissenschaften und Künste (1666/67) Jan Lazardzig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	176
The Known and Unknown Kunstkammer of Rudolf II Beket Bukovinská Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Collections and the Surface of the Image: Pictorial Strategies in Early-Modern Wunderkammern Robert Felfe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	228
Kunstkammer, Play-Palace, Shadow Theatre: Three Thought Loci by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Horst Bredekamp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	266
On the Representation of Knowledge in Athanasius Kircher Olaf Breidbach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
Pythagorean Musical Theater: Space, Time, and Numerical Speculation in the Ancient Metaphysical Fashion Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
Eucharist and Experiment: Spaces of Certainty in the 17th Century Florian Nelle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	316
Artificial Intensity: Images, Instruments, and the Technology of Amplification Barbara Maria Stafford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	338
The Metaphysics of Phenomena: Telescope and Microscope in the Works of Goethe, Leeuwenhoek and Hooke Hartmut Böhme Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	355
The Sixteenth-Century Mexican Missionary Convent as “Theatre of Conversion” Samuel Y. Edgerton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	394
Theaters of War: The Military-Entertainment Complex Timothy Lenoir and Henry Lowood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	427
Science in its Social Space Harry Collins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	457
The Adventurous Relationship between Physics and Geometry: Newton’s Space Viewed by Present-Day Physics Rainer Gruber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	467
Material Culture, Theoretical Culture, and Delocalization Peter Galison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	490
World-Picture and World-Theater: Wonder, Vision, Knowledge Karsten Harries Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	507
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	527

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars, Libraries, Institutes
Pages
- Front matter: 29
- Main content: 594
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 123
Keywords: Raum; Theater; Wissenschaftsgeschichte; Wissenrepräsentation

eBook

Published: August 22, 2008
ISBN: 9783110201550

Hardcover

Published: June 16, 2005
ISBN: 9783110177367