Based on a detailed study of rich archival sources, Model experts explores practices of model production and display, and reveals the often invisible labours of the co-operating artisans, anatomists, and administrators.
The book shows that the models were central to a remarkable political experiment: 'La Specola' opened in 1775 as the Royal Museum of Physics and Natural History, one of the first public science museums in Europe. As a venue for public enlightenment, the museum displayed model anatomies to create the model citizen. The study also moves beyond the borders of Tuscany, following a set of Florentine waxes to Vienna to explore the diverse reactions of medical professionals and general audiences as the models travelled in enlightened Europe.
The book will be of interest to historians of medicine, science, art, and enlightenment, to scholars in museum studies and in science & technology studies interested in the historical emergence of expertise, public engagement with science, and the relationship between science and the state.
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Anna Maerker is Senior Lecturer in History of Medicine at Oxford Brookes University
Anna Maerker is Senior Lecturer in History of Medicine at Oxford Brookes University
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Da: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 252 pp., 4 unnumbered pages of plates, illustrations (some color), portraits, 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Introduction: model practices and expertise in state service -- The politics of nature and the foundation of the Royal Museum -- Bodies and the state in eighteenth-century Tuscany -- Accuracy and authority in model production -- Model reception and the display of expertise -- The rejection of the Florentine anatomical models in Vienna -- Regime changes in Tuscany and at La Specola, 1790-1814. Subjects; Museo zoologico La Specola (Florence, Italy). Human anatomy Models Italy Florence History 18th century. Wax-modeling. Enlightenment. Physicians. Politics Austria and Italy. 1 Kg. Codice articolo 385300
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1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 252 pp., 4 unnumbered pages of plates, illustrations (some color), portraits, 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Introduction: model practices and expertise in state service -- The politics of nature and the foundation of the Royal Museum -- Bodies and the state in eighteenth-century Tuscany -- Accuracy and authority in model production -- Model reception and the display of expertise -- The rejection of the Florentine anatomical models in Vienna -- Regime changes in Tuscany and at La Specola, 1790-1814. Subjects; Museo zoologico La Specola (Florence, Italy). Human anatomy Models Italy Florence History 18th century. Wax-modeling. Enlightenment. Physicians. Politics Austria and Italy. 1 Kg. Codice articolo 385300
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