Teaching and Research Apparatus in the Teyler Museum
The founder of Teyler's scientific collection was Martinus van Marum, whose life and work were the subject of a six-volume publication by the Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (Haarlem & Leiden, 1969-1976).
This lavishly illustrated book is an important study of the development of science during a period of immense change. Science in the 19th Century was dependent as never before on instruments, which were essential for carrying out an ever widening programme of research, and for educating a public increasingly interested in the phenomena of the natural world.
The author, Professor Gerard L'E. Turner, D.Litt. D.Sc F.S.A., has established an international reputation for his research into the history of scientific instruments. Gerard Turner is editor of Annals of Science, President of the Scientific Instrument Society and Secretary of the International Scientific Instrument Commission. He is the author of numerous books and more than a hundred papers in his field.
The books contains c. 400 pages and 600 b&w illustrations plus a 16 page full colour section. 25 x 19 cm hard cover with dust jacket. Publication date: October 1996.
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The Physical Cabinet of the Teyler Museum, Haarlem, The Netherlands, is unique in that is a preserved scientific institution, founded in the late 18th century, and ceased to function actively in the 1940's. Since then it has remained intact and undisturbed. During its active period, instruments of the latest design and highest quality were acquired in the Netherlands, England, France, and Germany for use in teaching and research programmes. Today, these instruments form an unique reference collection of historical scientific apparatus, especially in the fields of acoustics, electricity, and optics.
In volume IV (1973) Professor Turner has already catalogued the physical apparatus bought by Van Marum. The scientific programme initiated by Van Marum was continued throughout the 19th century and into the 20th by its successors. This later group of instruments, comprised in 454 catalogue entries, covering the period c. 1840-1915, is housed i the New Museum at Teyler's, opened in 1885. The main categories of instruments included are optics (featuring a group of instruments by Jules Duboscq, and a set of gratings by Friedrich Adolph Nobert), acoustics (teyler's collection of instruments bearing the name of Karl Rudolph Koenig is one of the most complete in the world), and electricity (including representative groups of apparatus by Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff, Eugène Ducretet, Ferdinand Ernecke, and Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Geisler).
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