Possessing nature : museums, collecting, and scientific culture in early modern Italy / Paula Findlen.
1994
Q105.I8 F56 1994eb
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Title
Possessing nature : museums, collecting, and scientific culture in early modern Italy / Paula Findlen.
Author
ISBN
9780520917781 (electronic bk.)
0520917782 (electronic bk.)
9780520205086 (pbk.)
0585081484
9780585081489
0520073347 (alk. paper)
0520205081
0520917782 (electronic bk.)
9780520205086 (pbk.)
0585081484
9780585081489
0520073347 (alk. paper)
0520205081
Published
Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1994.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xvii, 449 pages) : illustrations, map
Call Number
Q105.I8 F56 1994eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)44965913
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-432) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
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.
"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.
Source of Description
Print version record.
Series
Studies on the history of society and culture ; 20.
Available in Other Form
Print version: Findlen, Paula. Possessing nature. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1994
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