| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 449 pages) : illustrations, map. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Studies on the history of society and culture ; 20
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Studies on the history of society and culture ; 20.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-432) and index. |
| Contents |
Locating the museum -- "A world of wonders in one closet shut" -- Searching for paradigms -- Sites of knowledge -- Laboratories of nature -- Pilgrimages of science -- Fare esperienza -- Museums of medicine -- Economies of exchange -- Inventing the collector -- Patrons, brokers, and strategies -- Epilogue: The old and the new. |
| Summary |
In 1500 few Europeans regarded nature as a subject worthy of inquiry. Yet fifty years later the first museums of natural history had appeared in Italy, dedicated to the marvels of nature. Italian patricians, their curiosity fueled by new voyages of exploration and the humanist rediscovery of nature, created vast collections as a means of knowing the world and used this knowledge to their greater glory. Drawing on extensive archives of visitors' books, letters, travel journals, memoirs, and pleas for patronage, Paula Findlen reconstructs the lost social world of Renaissance and Baroque museums. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Science museums -- Italy -- History.
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Science museums. |
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Italy. |
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History. |
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Science museums -- Europe -- History.
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Europe. |
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Natural history museums -- Italy -- History.
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Natural history museums. |
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Natural history museums -- Europe -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Findlen, Paula. Possessing nature. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1994 0520073347 (DLC) 93014997 (OCoLC)27770300 |
| ISBN |
9780520917781 (electronic book) |
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0520917782 (electronic book) |
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0585081484 (electronic book) |
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9780585081489 (electronic book) |
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9780520205086 (paperback) |
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0520205081 (paperback) |
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0520073347 (alkaline paper) |
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0520205081 |
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