Scenes of Writing: The Florentine Uffizi as Kunstkammer, Laboratory, and Stage

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Space: The Final Frontier 1
4. Kunstkammer – Laboratory – Theater in the ‘Theatrum Europaeum’: On the Transformation of Performative Space in the 17th Century 9
5. The Virtual Laboratory: Thought Experiments in Seventeenth-Century Mechanics 35
6. The Point: The Smallest Venue of Knowledge in the 17th Century (1585-1665) 57
7. Anatomical Theatre as Experimental Space 75
8. Scenes of Writing: The Florentine Uffizi as Kunstkammer, Laboratory, and Stage 103
9. “Mentalmente architettato” – Thoughts in Physical Form: Immutable or Dynamic? The Case of the Library 122
10. The Operatic Stage as an Experimental Space for Affections: About the Concepts of Affections Asserted by Athanasius Kircher and Claudio Monteverdi 146
11. The Cartography of Emotions: Power, Play, and the Politics of Love in 17th Century France 162
12. Universality and Territoriality: On the Architectonic of Academic Social Life Exemplified by the Brandenburg Universität der Völker, Wissenschaften und Künste (1666/67) 176
13. The Known and Unknown Kunstkammer of Rudolf II 199
14. Collections and the Surface of the Image: Pictorial Strategies in Early-Modern Wunderkammern 228
15. Kunstkammer, Play-Palace, Shadow Theatre: Three Thought Loci by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 266
16. On the Representation of Knowledge in Athanasius Kircher 283
17. Pythagorean Musical Theater: Space, Time, and Numerical Speculation in the Ancient Metaphysical Fashion 303
18. Eucharist and Experiment: Spaces of Certainty in the 17th Century 316
19. Artificial Intensity: Images, Instruments, and the Technology of Amplification 338
20. The Metaphysics of Phenomena: Telescope and Microscope in the Works of Goethe, Leeuwenhoek and Hooke 355
21. The Sixteenth-Century Mexican Missionary Convent as “Theatre of Conversion” 394
22. Theaters of War: The Military-Entertainment Complex 427
23. Science in its Social Space 457
24. The Adventurous Relationship between Physics and Geometry: Newton’s Space Viewed by Present-Day Physics 467
25. Material Culture, Theoretical Culture, and Delocalization 490
26. World-Picture and World-Theater: Wonder, Vision, Knowledge 507
27. Backmatter 527