Format:
1 Online-Ressource (XVII, 310 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9789004441446
Series Statement:
Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions volume 29
Content:
"Teyler's Foundation in Haarlem and its 'Book and Art Room' of 1779, edited by Ellinoor Bergvelt and Debora Meijers, examines for the first time this institution in the context of scientific, museological, political, artistic, religious and philosophical developments. The key moment was the decision in 1779 to give a free interpretation to the testament of its founder, the Mennonite entrepreneur Pieter Teyler van der Hulst (1702-1778): stimulated by the naturalist Martinus van Marum, the Foundation's board decided to build an impressive museum room and to establish a natural science collection. The institution thus entered an era in which older scientific and collecting traditions engaged with new developments towards a research institution and a public museum of natural history, physics and art"--
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004440999
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Museums and (the Loss of?) the Encyclopedic Ideal, 1785-2016 (Veranstaltung : 2017 : Haarlem) Teyler's Foundation in Haarlem and its 'Book and Art Room' of 1779 Leiden : Brill, 2021 ISBN 9789004440999
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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Natural Sciences
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General works
Keywords:
Teyler van der Hulst, Pieter 1702-1778
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Teylers Museum
DOI:
10.1163/9789004441446
Author information:
Bergvelt, Ellinoor 1947-
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