03866nam a22004098i 4500 BRILL9789004504615 nllekb 20260415154324.0 m d cr un uuuua 230524s2023 gw sb 001 0 eng d 9789004504615 (electronic book) 9789004504608 (print) 10.1163/9789004504615 DOI NL-LeKB NL-LeKB rda eng AM7 PDX bicssc SCI 034000 bisacsh 069 23 Gauvin, Jean-François, author. Instruments of Knowledge : Finding Meaning in Objects, Habits, and Museums / Jean-François Gauvin. Finding Meaning in Objects, Habits, and Museums 1 online resource (288 pages) : illustrations. Nuncius Series ; 12 Includes bibliographical references and index. Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1 A Short Case Study: The Early Académie royale des sciences in Paris -- 2 Reading This Book -- Part 1: Organum -- Introduction -- 1 Quid organum erat? The Idea of Instrument in Early Modern Europe -- 1 Organum scientiae: Definitions and Examples -- 2 Organ-ization of Knowledge -- 2 Organ Making and Natural Philosophical Knowledge in Marin Mersenne's Harmonie Universelle -- 1 Mersenne's Seven Books on Instruments in the Harmonie universelle -- 2 The Organ and Mersenne's Epistemology of Natural Philosophical Knowledge -- 3 Musical Instruments and the 'parfait musicien' -- Part 2: Habitus -- Introduction -- 3 Habitus in corpore, habitus in anima: Making and Thinking in Early Modern Europe -- 1 Defining habitus in Early Modern Europe -- 2 Habitus and Descartes's Logic of Practice -- 3 Habitus and the Concept of Knowledge Production -- 4 Blaise Pascal, coutume, and the Arithmetical Machine -- 4 From idiotae to artistes: Artisans, Instruments, and the Nature of Craftsmanship in Early Modern Europe -- 1 Descartes, Artisans, and âmes réglées -- 2 Who Assists Whom: The Structural Dynamic of Artisan and Savant Interactions -- 3 From artiste to Toyware Manufacturing -- Part 3: Museum -- Introduction -- 5 Repair, Restoration, Exhibition: Instruments and the Epistemic Value of Brokenness -- 1 Restorer v. Conservator: How to 'Repair' Damaged Instruments? -- 2 Reconstruction and Restoration: Abbé Nollet's Scientific Instruments -- 3 Identity, Integrity, Authenticity: Between the Unit of the Total and the Unit of the Whole -- 4 Reuse and Recycle: Exhibiting the DIY of Scientists and Craftsmen -- 6 Instrument Trajectories: Ways of Knowing the World -- 1 Collecting Instruments -- 2 Knowing Through Playing -- 3 Digitizing Collections -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index. In a bid to claim 'scientific objects' as requiring a significant amount of conceptual labor, this book looks sequentially at instruments, habits, and museums. The goal is to uncover how, together, these material and immaterial activities, rules, and commitments form one meaningful and credible blueprint revealing the building blocks of knowledge production. They serve to conceptualize and examine the entire life of an instrument: from its ideation and craft to its use, reuse, circulation, recycling, and (if not obliterated) its final entry into a museum. It is such an epistemological triptych that guides this investigation. English Museum techniques. Museums Philosophy. Museums Social aspects. Print version: Instruments of Knowledge : Finding Meaning in Objects, Habits, and Museums. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2023. 9789004504608 Nuncius Series ; 12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004504615 ddc E-BOOK 49424 49424 2026-04-15 11:21:00 0 069 EB04532 https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004504615 2026-04-15 E-BOOK 0 ddc 0 0 0 CUTN CUTN 2026-04-15