Scientific Instruments On Display
by Silke Ackermann /
2014 / English / PDF
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‘Scientific instruments on display’ can mean many things for many people—display for sale in shop windows or in trade catalogues; display to compete for attention and prizes at Great Exhibitions and trade fairs; display in private col-lections to save from destruction, to understand or to show off; display in muse-ums and galleries to explain, to teach and to enlighten; display in public spaces or in manuscripts and books to signal the authority or credibility of science; display on stage and in film to provide a context and to (literally) set the scene. Scientific instruments, that is, have long been shown in spaces quite different from their ‘working homes’ of the laboratory, the classroom, or the observatory.
