Download or read book European Collections of Scientific Instruments, 1550-1750 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-02-28 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These selected studies on sixteenth and eighteenth centuries European collections of scientific instruments, which were part of the princely ‘wunderkammern’, delineate an up-to-date-panorama about the formation of the most important museums of the history of science.