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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. She follows the new study of natural history as it moved out of the universities and into sixteenth- and seventeenth-century scientific societies, religious orders, and princely courts. Findlen argues convincingly that natural history as a discipline blurred the border between the ancients and the moderns, between collecting in order to recover ancient wisdom and the development of new textual and experimental scholarship. Her vivid account reveals how the scientific revolution grew from the constant mediation between the old forms of knowledge and the new.
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. She follows the new study of natural history as it moved out of the universities and into sixteenth- and seventeenth-century scientific societies, religious orders, and princely courts. Findlen argues convincingly that natural history as a discipline blurred the border between the ancients and the moderns, between collecting in order to recover ancient wisdom and the development of new textual and experimental scholarship. Her vivid account reveals how the scientific revolution grew from the constant mediation between the old forms of knowledge and the new.
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Paula Findlen is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Davis.
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"As a study of late Renaissance naturalists, the science they practised, and the fit between that science and late Renaissance court life, the book has no rival."Anthony Grafton, Princeton University
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- EditoreUniv of California Pr
- Data di pubblicazione1994
- ISBN 10 0520073347
- ISBN 13 9780520073340
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero di pagine449
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Possessing Nature Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy
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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good+. First Edition. Name inside, moderate jacket wear ; Studies On The History Of Society And Culture. Codice articolo 1000137565
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Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy (Studies on the History of Society and Culture)
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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition. Hardcover in publisher's dust-jacket. 449 pages. Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with drawings and engravings. First edition, first printing with full number line. A social, political and intellectual history of the revitalized rise of the discipline of 'natural science' in Renaissance Italy as an amalgam of Aristotelian text-based science and an emerging empirical method of study. No previous ownership marks. A clean, tight, fresh and unmarked copy. Dust-jacket protected by acetate covers. Near fine in a near fine dust-jacket. Codice articolo 020915
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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: Used - Very Good. 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. She follows the new study of natural history as it moved out of the universities and into sixteenth- and seventeenth-century scientific societies, religious orders, and princely courts. Findlen argues convincingly that natural history as a discipline blurred the border between the ancients and the moderns, between collecting in order to recover ancient wisdom and the development of new textual and experimental scholarship. Her vivid account reveals how the scientific revolution grew from the constant mediation between the old forms of knowledge and the new. 'As a study of late Renaissance naturalists, the science they practised, and the fit between that science and late Renaissance court life, the book has no rival.'--Anthony Grafton, Princeton University Very nice clean, tight copy free of any marks. Slight dust stains on text edges. Codice articolo 244469
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Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy
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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good Plus. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Book measures 23.5x16.cm. xvii,[1],449,[1]pp. Bound in original publishers red boards, black spine, gilt lettering. Binding in very good clean firm condition. Dust jacket lightly rubbed on edges. Jacket in good clean condition. Internally, pages clean throughout. A very nice clean copy. Size: 8vo. Codice articolo 014084
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