Museums and the history of science: Practitioner's postscript

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Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 602-608

  Bennett, Jim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33751176897     PISSN: 00211753     EISSN: 15456994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/498596     Document Type: Review

References (22)

1. Oliver Impey and Arthur MacGregor, eds., The Origins of Museums: The Cabinet of Curiosities in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Europe (Oxford: Clarendon, 1985).
2. James A. Bennett, Stephen A. Johnston, and Anthony V. Simcock, Solomon's House in Oxford: New Finds from the First Museum (Oxford: Museum of the History of Science, 2000).
3. Charles Webster, "The College of Physicians: 'Solomon's House' in Commonwealth England," Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 1967, 41:393-412;
4. Michael Hunter, "The Cabinet Institutionalized: The Royal Society's 'Repository' and Its Background," in Origins of Museums, ed. Impey and MacGregor (cit. n. 1), pp. 159-168.
5. There have been many studies of the early period, cited in the other papers in this Focus section; a good place to start is still Paula Findlen, Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modem Italy (Berkeley/Los Angeles: Univ. California Press, 1994).
6. On the museums of the Enlightenment see Kim Sloan and Andrew Burnett, Enlightenment: Discovering the World in the Eighteenth Century (London: British Museum Press, 2003);
7. Robert G. W. Anderson et al., eds., Enlightening the British: Knowledge, Discovery, and the Museum in the Eighteenth Century (London: British Museum Press, 2003).
8. On changes in the nineteenth century see Tony Bennett, The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics (London/New York: Routledge, 1995).
9. For an outline account of twentieth-century developments see Stella Butler, Science and Technology Museums (Leicester: Leicester Univ. Press, 1992).
10. For some particular studies see James A. Bennett, "Museums and the History of Science at Oxford and Cambridge," British Journal for the History of Science, 1997, 30:29-46;
11. Svante Lindqvist, ed., Museums of Modern Science (Canton, Mass.: Science History Publications, 2000);
12. Sharon Macdonald, ed., The Politics of Display: Museums, Science, Culture (London/New York: Routledge, 1998);
13. Macdonald, Behind the Scenes at the Science Museum (Oxford/New York: Berg, 2002).
14. Cf. the section "Focus: Scientific Readers," Isis, 2004, 95:420-448.
15. Peter Vergo, ed., The New Muscology (London: Reaktion, 1989);
16. Bernard Schiele and Emlyn H. Koster, La revolution de la muséologie des sciences (Lyon: Presses Univ. Lyon, 1998).
17. Andrew Barry, "On Interactivity: Consumers, Citizens, and Culture," in Politics of Display, ed. Macdonald (cit. n. 5), pp. 98-117;
18. Jim Bennett, "Beyond Understanding: Curatorship and Access in Science Museums," in Museums of Modern Science, ed. Lindqvist (cit. n. 5), pp. 55-60;
19. John Durant, ed., Museums and the Public Understanding of Science (London: Science Museum, 1992);
20. Michael Shortland, "No Business Like Show Business," Nature, 1987, 328:213-214.
21. Anthony Turner, Early Scientific Instruments: Europe, 1400-1800 (London: Sotheby's, 1987), pp. 231-254.
22. For a catalogue of the collection see Gerard L'E. Turner, The Great Age of the Microscope: The Collection of the Royal Microscopical Society through 150 Years (Bristol/New York: Hilger, 1989).