Collection - Laboratory - Theater: Scenes of Knowledge in the 17th Century

624 Pages·2005·152.535 MB·English

by  Helmar Schramm, Ludger Schwarte, Jan Lazardzig

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Theatrum Scientiarum
English Edition
Edited by
Helmar Schramm, Ludger Schwarte, Jan Lazardzig
Scientific Advisory Board
Hartmut Böhme, Olaf Breidbach, Georges Didi-Huberman,
Peter Galison, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann,
and Barbara Maria Stafford
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Editors’ Preface
This volume constitutes the first part of a series called Theatrum
Scientiarum, which sets out to examine the fundamental crossover of
art and science in a new way. The project is based on the assumption
that in the course of the reconstitution of science in the seventeenth
century practices of presentation, observation, and medial competence
emerge, whose productive force can only be adequately described
within an interdisciplinary perspective. These practices are in no way
confined to the processes of the legitimization and implementation of
knowledge; rather, through the experimental methods used for model-
ling and handling the world, a dynamic structure of creative approaches
to observation and presentation is developed. The questions we would
like to address in the series Theatrum Scientarium emerge from the
cultural upheavals of our times. They are carried by the conviction that
an appropriate understanding of the interaction of today’s medial con-
figurations of scientific programs and artistic practice is only possible
in the awareness of this long-term historical process.
It is due to the international character of the questions discussed that
this volume, which appeared in German in 2003 after a conference in
Berlin, now also appears in English. As a result of the success of the
conference it seemed extremely desirable to make the conference con-
tributions available to a wider public. Therefore we are highly indebted
to the chief editor of literary studies of Walter de Gruyter publishers,
Dr. Heiko Hartmann, who, from the very beginning, emphatically sup-
ported this endeavour.
The realization of this long-term research project would not have
been possible without the generous support of the Free University of
Berlin, the German Research Foundation (DFG), as well as the Gerda
Henkel Foundation. The Medical History Museum Berlin, namely Pro-
fessor Thomas Schnalke, with the loan of the historical lecture hall
made an essential contribution to the success of the conference. The
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the FU Berlin, generously made the
anatomical theatre, constructed in 1790 by Carl Gotthard Langhans,
available to us.
VI Preface
We would like to thank the translators of this volume (they are
named at the end of each contribution) for their outstanding work. We
are also grateful to Michael Lorber for his conscientious editorial super-
vision of this volume.
With the English publication, we would like to make a pragmatic
plea for the plurality of scientific languages.
The clear outweighing of German literature in the notes, repeatedly
presented the translators with difficulties. When no appropriate English
translation was available, the quotations were, without renewed quota-
tion of the German (or Italian, French, Spanish, Czech, etc.) translated
from the original. Only with quotations from unpublished sources (e.g.
archives) is, as a rule, also the original quotation recorded in the foot-
notes.
The Editors
Contents
Preface of the Editors ................................................................................. V
Contents ...................................................................................................... VII
Helmar Schramm
Introduction: Place and Trace in Theatrum Scientiarum ............................ XI
Andrew Pickering
Space: The Final Frontier ........................................................................... 1
Helmar Schramm
Kunstkammer – Laboratory – Theater in the ‘Theatrum Europaeum’:
On the Transformation of Performative Space in the 17th Century ............ 9
James W. McAllister
The Virtual Laboratory: Thought Experiments in Seventeenth-Century
Mechanics ................................................................................................... 35
Wolfgang Schäffner
The Point: The Smallest Venue of Knowledge in the 17th Century
(1585-1665) ................................................................................................ 57
Ludger Schwarte
Anatomical Theatre as Experimental Space ............................................... 75
Hans-Christian von Herrmann
Scenes of Writing: The Florentine Uffizi as Kunstkammer, Laboratory,
and Stage .................................................................................................... 103
Werner Oechslin
“Mentalmente architettato” – Thoughts in Physical Form: Immutable or
Dynamic? The Case of the Library ............................................................ 122
Clemens Risi
The Operatic Stage as an Experimental Space for Affections:
About the Concepts of Affections Asserted by Athanasius Kircher and
Claudio Monteverdi .................................................................................... 146
VIII Contents
Doris Kolesch
The Cartography of Emotions: Power, Play, and the Politics of Love in
17th Century France .................................................................................... 162
Jan Lazardzig
Universality and Territoriality: On the Architectonic of Academic
Social Life Exemplified by the Brandenburg Universität der Völker,
Wissenschaften und Künste (1666/67) ........................................................ 176
Beket Bukovinská
The Known and Unknown Kunstkammer of Rudolf II .............................. 199
Robert Felfe
Collections and the Surface of the Image: Pictorial Strategies in Early-
ModernWunderkammern ........................................................................... 228
Horst Bredekamp
Kunstkammer, Play-Palace, Shadow Theatre: Three Thought Loci by
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz ......................................................................... 266
Olaf Breidbach
On the Representation of Knowledge in Athanasius Kircher .................... 283
Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann
Pythagorean Musical Theater: Space, Time, and Numerical Speculation
in the Ancient Metaphysical Fashion ......................................................... 303
Florian Nelle
Eucharist and Experiment: Spaces of Certainty in the 17th Century .......... 316
Barbara Maria Stafford
Artificial Intensity: Images, Instruments, and the Technology of
Amplification .............................................................................................. 338
Hartmut Böhme
The Metaphysics of Phenomena: Telescope and Microscope in the
Works of Goethe, Leeuwenhoek and Hooke .............................................. 355
Samuel Y. Edgerton
The Sixteenth-Century Mexican Missionary Convent as “Theatre of
Conversion” ................................................................................................ 394
Timothy Lenoir/Henry Lowood
Theaters of War: The Military-Entertainment Complex ............................ 427
Harry Collins
Science in its Social Space ......................................................................... 457
Contents IX
Rainer Gruber
The Adventurous Relationship between Physics and Geometry:
Newton’s Space Viewed by Present-Day Physics ...................................... 467
Peter Galison
Material Culture, Theoretical Culture, and Delocalization ........................ 490
Karsten Harries
World-Picture and World-Theater: Wonder, Vision, Knowledge .............. 507
About the Authors ...................................................................................... 527
Image Credits .............................................................................................. 533
Bibliography ............................................................................................... 541
Index of Names ........................................................................................... 571
Index of Subjects ........................................................................................ 577