Science City 1550–1800: The Linbury Gallery

Science City 1550–1800: The Linbury Gallery

Science City 1550–1800: The Linbury Gallery opened in 2019 in the Science Museum (London) and was funded by The Linbury Trust. It explores the science of early modern London, showcasing the scientific instrument collections of the Science Museum, Kings College London and the Royal Society. In each of the gallery’s four sections, an abstracted room-set-style display evokes places in London that contributed to London’s scientific culture. Each display is accompanied by a digital label that interprets the objects and other features. Work related to this gallery is available to view and download from this collection. Please note that some files are draft copies.

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Desborough, Jane
Rose, Alexandra
Language
English
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    Science City: Gateway scene digital label: A meeting of the Royal Society
    (2019)
    Desborough, Jane
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    Rose, Alexandra
    Science City 1550–1800: The Linbury Gallery, which opened in 2019, explores the science of early modern London, showcasing the scientific instrument collections of the Science Museum, Kings College London and the Royal Society. In each of the gallery’s four sections, an abstracted room-set-style display evokes places in London that contributed to London’s scientific culture. Each display is accompanied by a digital label that interprets the objects and other features. This is a working draft of the text for the display that evokes a meeting of the Royal Society in the late 1600s, at which Fellows are conducting an experiment with an air pump.
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    Science City: Gallery text and object labels
    (2019)
    Rose, Alexandra
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    Desborough, Jane
    Science City 1550–1800: The Linbury Gallery, which opened in 2019, explores the science of early modern London, showcasing the scientific instrument collections of the Science Museum, Kings College London and the Royal Society. This document contains the gallery's text panels and object labels; it was a working document created for identifying and tracking any minor amendments to text post-opening.
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    Science City: List of displayed objects
    (2019)
    Rose, Alexandra
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    Desborough, Jane
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    Howles, Matthew
    Science City 1550–1800: The Linbury Gallery, which opened in 2019, explores the science of early modern London, showcasing the scientific instrument collections of the Science Museum, Kings College London and the Royal Society. This is the object list, showing all the objects that were displayed when the gallery opened. Practical information including object dimensions and weights is also included; sensitive information such as showcase and display details has been redacted.
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    Science City: Gateway scene digital label: A natural philosophy lecture
    (2019)
    Rose, Alexandra
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    Desborough, Jane
    Science City 1550–1800: The Linbury Gallery, which opened in 2019, explores the science of early modern London, showcasing the scientific instrument collections of the Science Museum, Kings College London and the Royal Society. In each of the gallery’s four sections, an abstracted room-set-style display evokes places in London that contributed to London’s scientific culture. Each display is accompanied by a digital label that interprets the objects and other features. This is a working draft of the text for the display that evokes a natural philosophy lecture by lecturer Stephen Demainbray in the mid-1700s. It incorporates several objects relating to optics that are part of the King George III collection on loan to the Science Museum from Kings College London.
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    Science City: Gateway scene digital label: Elias Allen's workshop
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    Desborough, Jane
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    Rose, Alexandra
    Science City 1550–1800: The Linbury Gallery, which opened in 2019, explores the science of early modern London, showcasing the scientific instrument collections of the Science Museum, Kings College London and the Royal Society. In each of the gallery’s four sections, an abstracted room-set-style display evokes places in London that contributed to London’s scientific culture. Each display is accompanied by a digital label that interprets the objects and other features. This is a working draft of the text for the display that evokes the workshop of instrument-maker Elias Allen. Allen, active in the early 1600s, was the first mathematical instrument-maker to make a living solely from the manufacture of such devices, unlike his predecessors who had to supplement their income by engraving maps and bookplates.
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    Science City: Gateway scene digital label: Mapping the nation
    (2019)
    Rose, Alexandra
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    Desborough, Jane
    Science City 1550–1800: The Linbury Gallery, which opened in 2019, explores the science of early modern London, showcasing the scientific instrument collections of the Science Museum, Kings College London and the Royal Society. In each of the gallery’s four sections, an abstracted room-set-style display evokes places in London that contributed to London’s scientific culture. Each display is accompanied by a digital label that interprets the objects and other features. This is a working draft of the text for the display that evokes the measurement of a base line at Hounslow Heath in 1791, the origins of what we now know as the Ordnance Survey. Central to the display is the large theodolite – known to surveyors at the time as the Great Theodolite – made by renowned maker Jesse Ramsden. The instrument was integral to the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain, which underpinned the first accurate map of the nation.
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