Institute and Museum of History of Science, Florence, ITALY

 

HALL XIV MAGNETIC, ELECTROSTATIC AND ELECTROMAGNETIC INSTRUMENTS The Lorraine Collection

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Electrostatics experiments
Magnetic, electrostatic and electromagnetic instruments from the eighteenth century, relevant to fields of research which attained precise definition at that time, are displayed in this room. The display on exhibit here, with its many pieces of foreign manufacture, is characteristic of a collection more pertinent to the demonstration of known principles than to the activity of research. The spectacular electrical machines aroused great wonder. Among the pieces displayed, noteworthy is the equipment for the newborn science of electricity. Particularly important are the portable instruments by Leopoldo Nobili (1784-1835), who taught physics at the Florentine Museum of Physics.

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