| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 449 pages) : illustrations, map |
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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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| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-432) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Science museums -- Italy -- History
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Science museums -- Europe -- History
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Natural history museums -- Italy -- History
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Natural history museums -- Europe -- History
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NATURE -- Essays.
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NATURE -- Reference.
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Ecotourism.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
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Natural history museums
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Science museums
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Europe
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Italy
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780520917781 |
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0520917782 |
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