Model Experts - Wax Anatomies and Enlightenment in Florence and Vienna, 17751815

Informationen zum Autor Anna Maerker is Senior Lecturer in History of Medicine at Oxford Brookes University Klappentext 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, now available in paperback, 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. Zusammenfassung Model Experts is the first book-length history in English of a celebrated collection of anatomical wax models which continues to fascinate audiences and shape our image of the body to the present day. It reveals the human relationships! controversies! and political projects which surrounded the artificial bodies. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures and platesAcknowledgments List of abbreviations Introduction: Model practices and expertise in state service Part I: Politics of nature and politics of the body1. The politics of nature and the foundation of the Royal Museum 2. Bodies and the state in eighteenth-century Tuscany Part II: Articulating expertise in everyday practice3. Accuracy and authority in model production 4. Model reception and the display of expertise Part III: Changing model contexts and interpretations5. The rejection of the Florentine anatomical models in Vienna 6 Regime changes in Tuscany and at La Specola, 1790-1814 ConclusionBibliography

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Anna Maerker, Maerker Anna
• Editore: Manchester University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.05.2015
• EAN: 9780719097393
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-9739-3
• Pagine: 264
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Medicina > Tematiche generali; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; austria, SCIENCE / History, Anatomy, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, MEDICAL / History, MEDICAL / Anatomy, ART / Museum Studies, Italy, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of Medicine, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of Science, Western philosophy: Enlightenment, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, C 1700 To C 1800