Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Colour Plates -- Cabinets for Experimental Philosophy in the Netherlands -- Entrepreneurs in Experiments: The Leiden Cabinet of Physics and the Motives of its Founders (1675-1742) -- New Light on the Cabinet of Physics of Padua -- The Lost Cabinet of Experimental Philosophy of the University of Oxford -- Failure, Fraud and Instrument Cabinets: Academic Involvement in the Eighteenth-Century Dutch Water Crisis -- The Cabinet of Physics at Riddarhuset in Stockholm in the Eighteenth Century -- Designing the House of Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Naples: The Ephemeral Museum of Ferdinando Spinelli, Prince of Tarsia -- Between Teaching and Collecting: The Lost Cabinet of Physics of Princes José and João of Portugal (1777-1808) -- The Gazola Family's Scientific Cabinet: Politics, Society and Scientific Collecting in the Twilight of the Republic of Venice -- Collections of Experimental Natural Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Poland -- "Monuments of Science": How the Teyler Museum's Instrument Collection Became Historical -- The Physics Cabinet of the Istituto Tecnico Toscano -- General Index.