Possessing nature : museums, collecting, and scientific culture in early modern Italy /
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,...
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
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| Ráidu: | Studies on the history of society and culture ;
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| Liŋkkat: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt4cgf60 |
Sisdoallologahallan:
- 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.