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
©1994.
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سلاسل: | Studies on the history of society and culture ;
20. |
الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt4cgf60 |