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what the Camera actually was. Having done this, I wanted to find out when it was produced, how it works, why the Meldahl family had it and why it was donated to the Museum. All of the answers were considered [...] intentions of the author and the perspective adopted, as argues Fleck (1986: 144) on the scientific work. On Material Culture Studies and its Methodology applied to scientific instruments Prown (1982) defines [...] 1863 (SchiØdte 2003). Despite being a prominent person at the time, he received no mention of his work in the natural sciences. Chevalier’s Camera Lucida in that period was still present in catalogues
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they are; and what they are meant for. But how do they work exactly, and how do they function together? Or, in other words, how does a nocturnal work? 11 Thank you to Stephen Johnston for recommending this [...] science and scientific instruments have already discussed. We can therefore helpfully draw on their work to explain what the com- ponents of the Oxford nocturnal are and what they are meant for. Beginning [...] noc- turnals, as is the case with the one from Oxford at the Deutsches Museum. How Does a Nocturnal Work? To summarize, thus far we have been able to identify the nocturnal’s individual compo- nents (along
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description and its identification as a version of an apparatus developed by Faraday resulted from joint work during the activity and are compiled in the first section and partially in second section. As a subsequent [...] Institution on display in what was once his magnetism laboratory (fig. 6). What brings us to Faraday's work, however, is the second version of the instrument presented in the same article, which is very similar [...] match, but there is no mention about mercury. On the contrary, it is suggested that the instrument works through direct contact between the hanging wire and (b): [...] A long, rod-shaped magnet is therefore
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mechanical structure, a professional instrument maker’s work- shop would have been able to execute all. Ralf Kern, in his illustrated multi-volume work on scientific instruments throughout the centuries, concludes [...] consider this context. The BAdW was founded in 1758 (Teichmann, Eckert & Wolff 2002: 333). In his work on the history of the BAdW, Ludwig Hammermayer ana- lyzes a wide range of correspondence and other [...] large profes- sional instrument maker’s workshop in the late 18th century may have employed up to 30 workers. While they certainly did not mass-produce, they did create some instru- ments in series and made
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the mystery of the distance estimator by J.G. Hofmann Luisa Lovisetti luisa.lovisetti@unimi.it This work is aimed at studying the distance estimator by J.G. Hofmann pre- served in the Deutsches Museum. Following [...] brackets. mailto:luisa.lovisetti@unimi.it LUISA LOVISETTI 2 Building upon these considerations, in this work we will analyse and study the distance estimator (Distanzschätzer) by J.G. Hoffmann (Hofmann c.1860a*)2 [...] of the device will allow us to discover nu- merous unexpected details. The study conducted in this work is based on the model presented in 1974 by Edward McClung Fleming (McClung Fleming 1974) for artifact
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Munich. CELESTE OTTAVIANI 8 How does the Zündmaschine work? In the analysis of the Zündmaschine, other questions arise: how does this object work? What is it? The visual analysis is not enough to understand [...] Program in Early American Culture, it is also known as the Winterthur Protocol (Hamilton, 2006). In his work, Fleming proposes this model as a tool to “identify many of the possible approaches to the artifact [...] research for all who are engaged in study of the artifact” (Fleming, 1974). Anderson (2013), in her work, summarizes the steps that, according to Fleming, are fundamental in providing a guide for the analysis
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as well as with universities and institutions that played a role in its wide circulation. In this work, we put forward a Object Biography of a particular Atwood Machine which was built in Bayern in 1795
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Deutsches Museum. Cannibalization is another threat to this kind of heritage. Old devices, out of work are used to replace pieces in similar devices. Scientific networks and knowledge transfer from Munich [...] probably intended to research or technical support in a laboratory environment. Acknowledgements This work greatly benefits from the group discussion with Jasmin Janka, Thorbjørn Bornhøft and Mirtachew Ali
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our experience of living” and “getting this relationship right will help us, finally, make history work for life” (Miller 2017, 20). By its definition, material culture is the study of material expression [...] valuable for the history of physics, since scientific instruments have been part of the scientific work from the time of the ancient Greeks and the gain of knowledge was enormous throughout the centuries [...] (Kremer 2012, 186). Still, this was the first time that a major art museum displayed photographs as art work and three year later established a new department: the Department of Photography (Hirsch 2017, 369)
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the object as well as first insights about the instrument maker, are the outcome of collaborative work conducted at the VII. International Seminar “Material Cul- ture in the History of Physics” in February [...] production, but this could obviously not be conducted as part of the seminar nor of this essay.7 After our work with the object at the seminar, there remained lots of unanswered questions some of which are the [...] thermometers, but also “other philosophical apparatus” and it seems to be “difficult to tell the father’s work from the son’s”. No known objects are listed and there is only the very vague mention “c. 1800” about