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The history of natural history : an annotated bibliography. A guide to sources of information ; histories, bibliographies, biographies, library resources, etc.
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ISBN: 9780950620787 Year: 2008 Publisher: London : Linnean Society of London,


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Erkenntnis, Erfindung, Konstruktion : Studien zur Bilgeschichte von Naturwissenschaften und Technik vom 16. bis zum 19. Jahrhundert
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ISBN: 3786123357 Year: 2000 Publisher: Berlin : Gebr. Mann,

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Science and the secrets of nature : books of secrets in medieval and early modern culture
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ISBN: 0691034028 0691026025 9780691034027 Year: 1994 Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press,


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Newton and Newtoniana, 1672-1975 : a bibliography
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ISBN: 0712907696 Year: 1977 Publisher: Folkestone : Dawson,

Curiosity and enlightenment : collectors and collections from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century
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ISBN: 0300124937 9780300124934 Year: 2007 Publisher: London : Yale University press,

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This book offers a history of museum collecting in western Europe over the course of its formative centuries, tracing its origins from the culture of collecting that emerged during the Renaissance, which served the purposes of both prestige and academic enquiry, and concluding with the great changes of the nineteenth century which would prove so influential to the museum movement of later years. Taking into account both individual collectors and public institutions, Arthur MacGregor covers topics such as the methods by which materials from both the manmade and natural world were selected and displayed, problems of preservation and presentation, the specialization of individual areas, such as fine arts, antiquities or natural history, as well as the developments of the nineteenth century which brought such collections within the reach of a much wider public. With the aid of 200 images, this book offers for the first time a wide-ranging survey of this entire process as well as the changing preoccupations of collectors, all set within a broader social context.

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