Teyler's Foundation in Haarlem and its 'Book and Art Room' of 1779: a key moment in the history of a learned institution
"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 mom...
| Subtitles: | 240th anniversary of Teyler's Foundation International conference, 'Museums and the (loss of?) the Enyclopedic Ideal', w[h]ich took place in Teyler's Museum on 20-22 April 2017 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Published: |
Leiden Boston
Brill
[2021]
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| In: |
Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions (volume 29)
Year: 2021 |
| Series/Journal: | Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions
volume 29 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Teylers Stichting
/ History
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| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Netherlands Intellectual life 18th century B Teylers Museum History B Festschrift B Teylers Stichting History B Learned institutions and societies (Netherlands) (Haarlem) B Conference program 2017 (Haarlem) |
| Summary: | "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"-- |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis Seite [253]-279 Mit Register "This volume, published to mark the occasion of the 240th anniversary of Teyler's Foundation, has grown out of an international conference, 'Museums and the (loss of?) the Enyclopedic Ideal', w[h]ich took place in Teyler's Museum on 20-22 April 2017." (Seite [VII]) |
| Physical Description: | XVII, 310 Seiten, Illustrationen, 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9004440992 |