TY  - BOOK
AU  - Findlen,Paula
TI  - Possessing nature: museums, collecting, and scientific culture in early modern Italy 
T2  - Studies on the history of society and culture
SN  - 9780520917781
AV  - Q105.I8 F56 1994eb
U1  - 508/.074/45 20
PY  - 1994///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Science museums
KW  - Italy
KW  - History
KW  - Europe
KW  - Natural history museums
KW  - NATURE
KW  - Essays
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Reference
KW  - TRAVEL
KW  - Special Interest
KW  - Ecotourism
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - General
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-432) and index; 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
N2  - 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
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