Selected publications Inga Elmqvist Söderlund
Forthcoming: “Display of instruments on 17th century astronomical frontispieces” in
Instruments on display, eds. Silke Ackermann, Mara Miniati, Richard Kremer & Giorgio
Strano, Leiden, Brill, 2014.
Forthcoming: "The Library as a site of Display: The Scientific Instrument in the early modern
Library" in Collecting Nature, ed. Andrea Galdy & Sylvia Heudecker, Cambridge: Cambridge
Scholars Publishing, 2014.
Forthcoming: "Appealing images: How do 17th Century astronomical frontispieces address
the beholder?" in O Livro Científico lido de perto (séc. XV-XVIII) / The Scientific Book
closely read (15th-18th cent.,) eds. Luana Giurgevich, Teresa Nobre de Carvalho & Henrique
Leitão, Lissabon, Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal.
Forthcoming: "Inspiration from ancient heroic deeds: Hercules as an astronomer" in The
proceedings of the Seventh Conference on the Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena 2010,
eds. Nicholas Campion & Rolf Sinclair, Bristol, The Sophia Centre Press, Culture & Cosmos
vol. 16, 2014.
Forthcoming: "Announcing the stars: Early modern astronomical frontispieces" in Mapping
Spaces: Networks of Knowledge in the Landscape Painting of the 17th Century, eds. Ulrike
Gehring & Peter Weibel, München, Hirmer, 2014.
“The cabinet of physics at Riddarhuset in Stockholm in the 18th Century”, Cabinets of
Experimental Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Europe, eds. Jim Bennett & Sofia Talas,
Leiden, Brill, Scientific Instruments and Collections: Studies Published under the Auspices of
the Scientific Instrument Commission, 2013, p. 99-118.
”A Material Turn? The Contexts of Early Modern Material Scientific Heritage”, in (Re)
Contextualizing literary and Cultural History: The Representation of the Past in Literary and
Material Culture, eds. Elisabeth Wåghäll Nivre, Beate Schirrmacher & Claudia Egerer
Stockholm, Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis, Stockholmer Germanistische Forschungen
77, 2013, p. 269-284. Also available online open access
http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-88912
“Celestial phenomena and Royal glory: The painted ceiling in ‘Ehrenstrahlsalongen’ by David
Klöcker Ehrenstrahl at Drottningholm palace in Sweden” in The Inspiration of Astronomical
Phenomena VI, ed. E.M. Corsini, San Francisco, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2011, p.
197-204. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nphabs_connect?ref_stems=ASPC..441&jou_pick=YES&return_req=no_params&
end_year=2012, Click on F to download a free PDF version of the paper.
Taking possession of astronomy: Frontispieces and illustrated title-pages in 17th century
books on astronomy (PhD thesis), Stockholm, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences,
Contributions to the history of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Also available online
http://su-beta.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:317149/FULLTEXT01.pdf
“The old Stockholm Observatory in a Swedish Context and an Argument for the Necessity of
an Inventory of the Swedish Astronomical Heritage”, in Cultural heritage of astronomical
observatories – from classical astronomy to modern astrophysics, ed. Gudrun Wolfschmidt,
ICOMOS- Hendrik Bässler Verlag, 2009, p. 235-250.
“Astronomi och tid” in Tidens form, eds. Michael Ernstell & Lena Holger, Stockholm,
Nationalmusei utställningskatalog 654, 2008, p. 38-52.
"The cabinet of naturalia at the Royal Swedish academy of Sciences" in Comparing: National
Museums, Territories, Nation-Building and Change. NaMu IV, ed. Peter Aronsson & Andreas
Nyblom, Linköping University, 2008, p. 197-204.
http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/030/015/ecp0830015.pdf
"Spåren efter Linné i Kungl. Vetenskapsakademiens samlingar" in Linné &
Vetenskapsakademien, eds. Inga Elmqvist Söderlund & Peter Brandén, Stockholm,
Observatoriemuseets skriftserie 6, 2007.
”The identity of the astronomer in 17th century imagery – Instruments used as attributes”, in
East and West: The Common European Heritage, Proceedings of the XXV Scientific
Instrument Symposium, eds. Ewa Wyka, Maciej Kluza & Anna Karolina Zawada, Krakow,
Jagiellonian University Museum 2006, p. 107-114.
"Vetenskap och kultur på Observatoriekullen under 250 år", in Huset närmast himlen,
Stockholm, eds Cecilia Bergström & Inga Elmqvist Söderlund, Stockholm,
Observatoriemuseets skriftserie 5, 2003.
“The image of the astronomer and astronomy in 17th century frontispiece illustrations”, in
The Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena III, ed Salvatore Serio, Memorie della Società
Astronomica Italiana, Special number 1, 2002, p. 171-185.
"En perfekt sfär av kristall eller en karg jordklump i rymden: Kartläggning och avbildningar
av månen under 1600-talet", in Månen, eds. Inga Elmqvist Söderlund & Katarina Werner,
Stockholm, Observatoriemuseets skriftserie 3, 2000.