Teyler’s Foundation in Haarlem and Its ‘Book and Art Room’ of 1779: A Key Moment in the History of a Learned...

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Ellinoor S. Bergvelt Debora J. Meijers

Teyler’s Foundation in Haarlem and Its ‘Book and Art Room’ of 1779

A Key Moment in the History of a Learned Institution

Ellinoor S. Bergvelt, Debora J. Meijers

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Brill
17 December 2020

Institutions & learned societies: general; History of science

Series: Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions

Teyler’s Foundation in Haarlem and its ‘Book and Art Room’ of 1779, edited by Ellinoor Bergvelt and Debora Meijers, examines for the first time this institution in the context of scientific, museological, political, artistic, religious and philosophical developments. The key moment was the decision in 1779 to give a free interpretation to the testament of its founder, the Mennonite entrepreneur Pieter Teyler van der Hulst (1702–1778): stimulated by the naturalist Martinus van Marum, the Foundation’s board decided to build an impressive museum room and to establish a natural science collection. The institution thus entered an era in which older scientific and collecting traditions engaged with new developments towards a research institution and a public museum of natural history, physics and art.

Contributors: Ellinoor S. Bergvelt, Terry van Druten, Arnold Heumakers, Eric Jorink, Paul Knolle, Debora Meijers, Wijnand Mijnhardt, Bert Sliggers, Koenraad Vos, and Holger Zaunstöck.

Volume editor: Ellinoor S. Bergvelt, Debora J. Meijers
Imprint: Brill
Volume: 29
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 673g
ISBN: 9789004440999
ISBN 10: 9004440992
Series: Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions
Pages: 328
Publication Date: 17 December 2020
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ellinoor Bergvelt is Associate Professor Emeritus of Cultural History of Europe, University of Amsterdam, and Guest Researcher at that same university. She is also Research Fellow of Dulwich Picture Gallery (London), and Associate Researcher of the RKD (Netherlands Institute for Art History, The Hague). Among the publications she co-edited is De wereld binnen handbereik (‘Distant Worlds made Tangible’; Amsterdam Historical Museum, 1992). Debora Meijers is Associate Professor Emeritus of Art History, University of Amsterdam, and Guest Researcher at that same university. Since 2006 she has been a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her publications deal with the interface between art and science; among them is The Paper Museum of the Academy of Sciences in St Petersburg, c. 1725–60 (2005).