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By Silke Ackermann, Richard Kremer, Mara Miniati

In the course of their lively lives, clinical tools in general inhabit the laboratory, observatory, lecture room or the sector. yet tools have additionally lived in a much wider set of venues, as gadgets on reveal. As such, they gather new degrees of that means; their cultural capabilities expand.

This booklet deals chosen reports of tools on exhibit in museums, nationwide festivals, common exhibitions, patent places of work, booklet frontispieces, theatrical phases, motion picture units, and online collections. The authors argue that those screens, as they've got replaced with time, mirror altering social attitudes in the direction of the gadgets themselves and towards technological know-how and its history. by way of bringing reveal to the heart of research, the gathering deals a brand new and bold framework for the learn of clinical tools and the fabric tradition of technology.

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Year Number of visitors 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 399 562 474 385 321 417 303 296 194 27 (as of 20 June 1940, after which the museum remained closed until June 1945) s­ cience historians, a clear indication that the museum and the institute constituted the two inseparable halves of a single entity dedicated to education, research, and the conservation of Italy’s cultural heritage. A difficult interregnum followed, as the country sank into the darkness of an autocratic self-celebratory dictatorship.

28 At its opening, therefore, the museum consisted of nine rooms, all situated on the ground floor of the Palazzo Castellani,29 and a collection that was already of outstanding quality even though at the time it only included a small part of the holdings of the Gabinetto degli Strumenti antichi (Cabinet of Antique Instruments), items that had been exhibited at the 1929 Esposizione Nazionale. However, the failure of the other occupants to vacate the upper floors of the building as promised made it impossible for the museum to expand its collections or draw up plans for the permanent installation of its exhibits.

Room 3. Torricelli’s telescopes, binoculars by Cherubin d’Orleans, lenses, podometer, magnetic compasses, goniometer, plumb levels, Rinaldini’s quadrant, and glass objects and hygrometers from the Accademia del Cimento. Room 4. Peter Leopold’s chemistry cabinet. Room 5. Petrified anatomical models by Girolamo Segato and a surgical armamentarium donated by Peter Leopold in 1795. Returning to the entrance and turning left, the visitor entered Room 6 devoted to air pumps, Hero’s fountain, and a collection of sundials and nocturnal clocks.

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