NP - Cat Piano

[Dave Monroe]

"From one of our favorite books, with several chapters
on Kircher’s inventions, Instruments and the
Imagination, by Thomas Hankins and Robert Silverman."

Hankins, Thomas L. and Robert J. Silverman.
   Instruments and the Imagination.
   Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1995.

Magnetic clocks that were said to operate by the
movements of sunflower seeds, magic lanterns, ocular
harpsichords, Aeolian harps, and other instruments of
"natural magic" are among the marvels revealed in this
book by Thomas L. Hankins and Robert J. Silverman.
When instruments were a novelty in natural philosophy
and it was unclear how they should be used, decisions
about which instruments were acceptable were crucial
in defining the boundaries of acceptable science. This
book raises and answers fascinating questions about
the connections between natural science and natural
magic, the meaning of demonstration, and the role of
language and the senses in science.

http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/titles/6597.html

http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/TOCs/c6597.html

>From Thomas L. Hankins and Robert J. Silverman,
Instruments and the Imagination (Princeton, NJ:
Princeton UP, 1995), Ch. 8, "Vox Mechanica: The
History of Speaking Machines," pp. 178-220 ...

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--- Ghetta Life <ghetta_outta at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 
> http://www.kirchersociety.org/blog/?p=116

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