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

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Title Possessing nature : museums, collecting, and scientific culture in early modern Italy Type Bibliographic Edition Year 1994 TOC Summary In 1500 few Europeans considered nature an object worthy of study, yet within fifty years the first museums of natural history had appeared, chiefly in Italy. Vast collections of natural curiosities - including living human dwarves, "toad-stones," and unicorn horns - were gathered by Italian patricians as a means of knowing their world. The museums built around these collections became the center of a scientific culture that over the next century and a half served as a microcosm of Italian society and as the crossroads where the old and new sciences met BH ID BV009894971 Link EPIC Open Data ID BVB01-006552249

Name	Findlen, Paula
Type	700
Year	1964-
Title
Relationship	aut
Relator	Verfasser
GND	1121616127 : json
Wikidata	Q28921839

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Name	508/.074/45
Type	082
Tag	082
Scheme	ddc
Edition	20

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Name	LB 34255
Type	084
Tag	084
Scheme	rvk
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0520073347