Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy by Paula Findlen

Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy

Paula Findlen

449 pages • first pub 1994 (view editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative medium-paced
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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 o...

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