TY  - GEN
T1  - Possessing nature : museums, collecting, and scientific culture in early modern Italy
T2  - Studies on the history of society and culture ;
A1  - Findlen, Paula
LA  - English
PP  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
YR  - 1994
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm44965913
AB  - 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.
OP  - 449
CN  - Q105.I8 F56 1994eb
SN  - 9780520917781
SN  - 0520917782
SN  - 9780520205086
SN  - 0585081484
SN  - 9780585081489
SN  - 0520073347
SN  - 0520205081
KW  - Science museums : Italy : History.
KW  - Science museums : Europe : History.
KW  - Natural history museums : Italy : History.
KW  - Natural history museums : Europe : History.
KW  - Sciences : Musées : Italie : Histoire.
KW  - Sciences : Musées : Europe : Histoire.
KW  - Sciences naturelles : Musées : Italie : Histoire.
KW  - Sciences naturelles : Musées : Europe : Histoire.
KW  - NATURE : Essays.
KW  - NATURE : Reference.
KW  - TRAVEL : Special Interest : Ecotourism.
KW  - HISTORY : Europe : General.
KW  - Natural history museums
KW  - Science museums
KW  - Europe
KW  - Italy
KW  - 1500s.
KW  - academic.
KW  - ancient world.
KW  - archival.
KW  - archives.
KW  - art museum.
KW  - baroque.
KW  - biology.
KW  - european history.
KW  - experiment.
KW  - humanist.
KW  - life science.
KW  - modern world.
KW  - museum.
KW  - natural history museum.
KW  - natural history.
KW  - natural world.
KW  - reconstruction.
KW  - religion.
KW  - religious studies.
KW  - renaissance.
KW  - scholarly.
KW  - science.
KW  - scientific revolution.
KW  - university.
KW  - History
ER  -