Paula Findlen

Broschiertes Buch

Possessing Nature

Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy

Beschreibung

In 1500 few Europeans regarded nature as a subject worthy of inquiry. Yet years later the first museums of natural history had appeared in Italy, dedicated to the marvels of nature. Drawing on archives of visitors' books, letters, and pleas for patronage, this title reconstructs the lost social world of Renaissance and Baroque museums.

Autor

Paula Findlen is Professor of History and Director of the Science, Technology and Society Program at Stanford University

Produktdetails

• Studies on the History of Society and Culture
• Verlag: University of California Press
• Seitenzahl: 449
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 173mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 724g
• ISBN-13: 9780520205086
• ISBN-10: 0520205081
• Artikelnr.: 21575256