10. Was it a Library?.............................................................................................................. 67
11. How to Fill an Empty Vessel.......................................................................................... 70
12. An Offer They Couldn’t Refuse...................................................................................... 79
13. Open All Hours................................................................................................................ 83
14. You Say Musaeum, I Say Museum.................................................................................85
Chapter III: Van Marum - Empiricism and Empire............................................................ 90
I Van Marum’s Work at Teylers Museum................................................................................90
1. You Win Some, you Lose Some....................................................................................... 90
2. The Bigger the Better.........................................................................................................91
3. A World Wide Web........................................................................................................... 93
4. From Physics to Chemistry................................................................................................96
5. Less isn’t M ore.................................................................................................................. 98
6. And then there was More...................................................................................................99
7. Van Marum’s Acquisition Policy................................................................................... 103
8. Increasing Popularity....................................................................................................... 106
9. London and the Aftermath...............................................................................................109
10. Van Marum’s Practical Appliances..............................................................................112
11. Down to Earth.................................................................................................................114
12. The Prying Eyes of the French...................................................................................... 116
13. One Mosasaur, two Mosasaur........................................................................................119
14. A Rekindled Love Affair...............................................................................................121
15. A Matter of Faith............................................................................................................123
15. Gee, but You’re Pretty...................................................................................................125
17. No Happy End.................................................................................................................127
II Van Marum’s “Philosophy of Science” ..............................................................................129
1. He Kant be Serious.......................................................................................................... 129
2. You Better Believe I t ....................................................................................................... 130
3. What You See is What You Get..................................................................................... 133
4. The Practical Turn............................................................................................................ 136
5. This Way Up.....................................................................................................................139
6. Bottom Line......................................................................................................................143
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III Open All Hours: Public Accessibility of Teylers Museum 1780-1840.......................... 144
1. The Tourist Trap.............................................................................................................. I 44
2. Open Office.......................................................................................................................145
3. Eyes Wide Open.............................................................................................................. 149
4. History in the Making.....................................................................................................153
IV The Forgotten Art.............................................................................................................. 155
1. No Great Connoisseur of Pictures..................................................................................155
2. Christina of Sweden’s Collection of Drawings............................................................157
3. Changing Definitions of “Art” ........................................................................................158
4. Paintings by Contemporary Artists................................................................................ 160
Chapter IV: Van der Willigen - Precision and the Discipline of Physics........................164
I. An Unexpected Guessing Game (Intro).............................................................................164
II. Volkert Simon Maarten van der Willigen (I): Early Years............................................. 168
1. Rockanje, Delft and Leiden........................................................................................... 168
2. A New Methodology.......................................................................................................169
3. The Athenaeum in Deventer.......................................................................................... 172
4. Amateurs, Specialists and True Physics....................................................................... 173
III. The Art of Presenting........................................................................................................180
1. The Rise of Public Art Exhibitions.................................................................................180
2. The First Art Gallery, a Permanent Exhibition?............................................................184
3. The More Visitors, the More Exclusive?........................................................................186
IV. Changing Defmtion of Museums..................................................................................... 192
1. From Scholarly Musaeum to Educational Museum.......................................................192
2. The Great Exhibition, “Albertopolis” and the South Kensington Museum.................193
3. The Public Museum in Support of Public Mores...........................................................195
4. Prince Albert and the History of Art...............................................................................197
5. London Calling Haarlem..................................................................................................199
IV. Jacob Gijsbertus Samuel van Breda at Teylers Museum............................................ 201
1. Mid-Century Dutch Liberalism....................................................................................... 201
2. Some Critics of Official Dutch Museum Policy............................................................203
3. Jacob Gijsbertus Samuel van Breda................................................................................206
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