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Title Collecting nature / edited by Andrea Gáldy and Sylvia Heudecker
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014
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Description 1 online resource (xxxiii, 232 pages) : illustrations
Series Collecting Histories
Contents Introduction / Arthur MacGregor -- Chapter abstracts -- Collecting nature within nature : animal inclusions in amber in early modern collections / Rachel King -- Collecting zoological rarities at the Medici court : real, stuffed and depicted beasts as cultural signs / Angelica Groom -- Wenzel Jamnitzer's mortar : life casting and court experimentalism in the 16th century / Virginie Spenlé -- Ornithology and collecting in the Dutch golden age : the collecting of exotica and captured specimens / Joy Kearney -- The birds in Mark Catesby's Natural history : collected, depicted, commodified / Shepard Krech III -- A princely plant collector in Renaissance Germany / Miriam Hall Kirch -- Collecting the painted Netherlands : the art collection of Archduke Ernest of Austria in Brussels / Ivo Raband -- The correspondence of Henry Oldenburg and circulation of objects at the early Royal Society of London, 1660-1677 / Iordan Avramov -- Carl Linnaeus and the natural history collections of Lovisa Ulrika of Sweden at Drottningholm Palace / Anne Harbers -- The early modern library as a site for collecting and display of scientific instruments / Inga Elmqvist Söderlund -- Epilogue and outlook: Collecting nature/archiving Eden / Dornith Doherty
Summary Papers presented at an international conference, organized by the working group Collecting and Display, held at Schwabenakademie Irsee, Germany, in May 2013
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-210) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Environmentalism -- Economic aspects
Environmentalism -- Decision making
Animals & nature in art (still life, landscapes & seascapes, etc)
The arts: general issues.
Museology & heritage studies.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- General.
Environmentalism -- Economic aspects
Natural history museums
Natural history museums -- Collection management
Nature
Nature (Aesthetics)
Form Electronic book
Author Gáldy, Andrea M., editor
Heudecker, Sylvia, 1969- editor.
Schwabenakademie Irsee, host institution.
Collecting and Display (Organization), organizer.
ISBN 1322889562
9781322889566
9781443875080
1443875082