—Telescopes and microscopes, instruments resulting from the knowledge and expertise of glass artisans, were a great contribution to the development of the new experimental philosophy of the seventeenth century.— From the end of the fifteenth century...
—The passion for collecting wonders of nature led to the creation of an essential space for understanding the science of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: the cabinet of curiosities.— The passion for collecting that was unleashed in the...
