<i>ARMARIUM PHYSICO-MATHEMATICUM</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1762
notes: label: Description
content: This engraving depicts the physics cabinet in the Augustinian monastery at Indersdorf, a Bavarian town located between Dachau and Augsburg. This cabinet is exceptional in large part because of this picture, and because its content and history are extremely well documented. Many of the instruments were made by Georg Friedrich Brander in Augsburg. The air (or vacuum) pump on the right side of the image was based on the form introduced by Professor of Natural Philosophy Wolferd Senguard in Leiden. The instrument in front of this is an electrostatic machine with a Leyden jar. The meridian line on the floor is a feature that was fairly common in in Austria and South Germany in the 18th century.
label: Description
content: This image was prepared for the <i> Kurtze historische Nachricht von dem Ursprung und Fortgang deß Stifft- und Klosters Ünderstorff Can. Reg. S. Aug. Congreg. Lateranensis in Ober-Bayrn, Rent-Amts München, Bisthumbs Freysing herausgezogen aus den alt und neuern Kloster-Chronicis anno 1762</i> (Augsburg, 1762). The signature at bottom left reads: “Georg. Dieffenprunner Pict. Aug. Delin.” That at bottom right reads: “Jos. Et Joan. Klauber Sc. Aug. Vind.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Peter Dorner, “Die physikalische Sammlung des Klosters Indersdorf,” in <i>Amperland Heimatkundliche Vierteljahresschrift für die Kreise Dachau</i> (1978), pp. 296-299, 318-321.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Bavaria, Augsburg
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Prints from the Physical Sciences Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.319034
label: catalog number
content: 319034
label: accession number
content: 236080
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 3/4 in x 9 1/4 in; 17.145 cm x 23.495 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 19 1/8 in x 19 1/8 in x 7/8 in; 48.5775 cm x 48.5775 cm x 2.2225 cm