List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction (Jim Bennett, Sofia Talas)
Colour Plates I-XIII
Cabinets for Experimental Philosophy in the Netherlands (Huib J. Zuidervaart)
Entrepreneurs in Experiments: The Leiden Cabinet of Physics and the Motives of its Founders (1675-1742) (Hans Hooijmaijers, Ad Maas)
New Light on the Cabinet of Physics of Padua (Sofia Talas)
The Lost Cabinet of Experimental Philosophy of the University of Oxford (Jim Bennett)
Failure, Fraud, and Instrument Cabinets: Academic Involvement in the Eighteenth-Century Dutch Water Crisis (Tiemen Cocquyt)
The Cabinet of Physics at Riddarhuset in Stockholm in the Eighteenth Century (Inga Elmqvist Söderlund)
Designing the House of Knowledge in Eighteenth-century Naples: The Ephemeral Museum of Ferdinando Spinelli, Prince of Tarsia (Paola Bertucci)
Between Teaching and Collecting: The lost Cabinet of Physics of Princes José and João of Portugal (1777-1808) (Marta C. Lourenço, David Felismino)
The Gazola Family’s Scientific Cabinet: Politics, Society and Scientific Collecting in the Twilight of the Republic of Venice (Ivano Dal Prete)
Collections of Experimental Natural Philosophy in Eighteenth-century Poland (Ewa Wyka)
“Monuments of Science”: How the Teyler Museum’s Instrument Collection Became Historical (Martin Weiss)
The Physics Cabinet of the Istituto Tecnico Toscano (Paolo Brenni)
General Index
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