Collection - Laboratory - Theater

Scenes of Knowledge in the 17th Century. Edited by Helmar Schramm, Ludger Schwarte and Jan Lazardzig.

"Kunstkammern" (art and curiosities cabinets), laboratories and stages arose in the 17th century as instruments of research and representation. 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. 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. XXIX,594 Seiten mit 123 Abb., gebunden (Theatrum Scientiarum. English Edition; Vol. 1/Walter de Gruyter Verlag 2005)