Science at home
Science in everyday life
Objects for daily use based on the laws of statics and dynamics. A specifically eighteenth-century device is the fan designed by John Theophilus Desaguliers, ...
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Watches from the Ruscitti Collection
In the early 15th century, clocks of smaller size started to be produced. They include wall clocks, table-clocks and watch. Through the 17th and 18th centuries ...
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Therapy and preventive care
Objects and devices for home medical care, from the traditional collection of small bottles of ointments and medicines to the most recent apparatuses for ...
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Science and interior decoration
Some scientific instruments became home furnishings, such as decorated wall-hanging barometers or globes for ornamental display. ...
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What’s the weather?
Reading instruments such as the barometer and thermometer to determine weather conditions became a routine occupation, thanks to the massive dissemination ...
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Recreational observations
In the home, science was also a recreational activity. Instruments such as the microscope and telescope could be used to instruct through entertainmen ...