Possessing nature : museums, collecting, and scientific culture in early modern Italy /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Findlen, Paula (Συγγραφέας)
• Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Berkeley : University of California Press, �1994.
• Σειρά: Studies on the history of society and culture ; 20.
• Θέματα: Science museums > Italy > History.; Science museums > Europe > History.; Natural history museums > Italy > History.; Natural history museums > Europe > History.; NATURE > Essays.; NATURE > Reference.; TRAVEL > Special Interest > Ecotourism.; HISTORY > Europe > General.; Natural history museums.; Science museums.; Europe.; Italy.; Electronic books.; History.

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,...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.