LEADER 03925nam 22006855 450 001 996248348903316 005 20230124181337.0 010 $a0-520-91778-2 010 $a0-585-08148-4 010 $a0-520-20508-1 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520917781 035 $a(CKB)111054828788110 035 $a(EBL)848572 035 $a(OCoLC)44965913 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000614501 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12206866 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000614501 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10604400 035 $a(PQKB)22157863 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC848572 035 $a(DE-B1597)520870 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520917781 035 $a(dli)HEB09070 035 $a(MiU) MIU01100000000000000000476 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111054828788110 100 $a20200424h19941994 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPossessing nature $emuseums, collecting, and scientific culture in early modern Italy /$fPaula Findlen 210 1$aBerkeley, CA :$cUniversity of California Press,$d[1994] 210 4$dİ1994 215 $a1 online resource (468 p.) 225 0 $aStudies on the History of Society and Culture ;$v20 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-299-96421-4 311 $a0-520-07334-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 409-432) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tAbbreviations --$tPhoto Credits --$tIntroduction --$tIntroduction Part I --$t1. "A World Of Wonders In One Closet Shut" --$t2. Searching For Paradigms --$t3. Sites Of Knowledge --$tIntroduction Part II --$t4. Pilgrimages Of Science --$t5. Fare Esperienza --$t6. Museums Of Medicine --$tIntroduction Part III --$t7. Inventing The Collector --$t8. Patrons, Brokers, And Strategies --$tEpilogue: The Old And The New --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aIn 1500 few Europeans regarded nature as a subject worthy of inquiry. Yet fifty years later the first museums of natural history had appeared in Italy, dedicated to the marvels of nature. Italian patricians, their curiosity fueled by new voyages of exploration and the humanist rediscovery of nature, created vast collections as a means of knowing the world and used this knowledge to their greater glory.Drawing on extensive archives of visitors' books, letters, travel journals, memoirs, and pleas for patronage, Paula Findlen reconstructs the lost social world of Renaissance and Baroque museums. She follows the new study of natural history as it moved out of the universities and into sixteenth- and seventeenth-century scientific societies, religious orders, and princely courts. Findlen argues convincingly that natural history as a discipline blurred the border between the ancients and the moderns, between collecting in order to recover ancient wisdom and the development of new textual and experimental scholarship. Her vivid account reveals how the scientific revolution grew from the constant mediation between the old forms of knowledge and the new. 410 0$aStudies on the History of Society and Culture 517 3 $aMuseums, collecting, and scientific culture in early modern Italy 606 $aScience museums$zItaly$xHistory 606 $aScience museums$zEurope$xHistory 606 $aNatural history museums$zItaly$xHistory 606 $aNatural history museums$zEurope$xHistory 615 0$aScience museums$xHistory. 615 0$aScience museums$xHistory. 615 0$aNatural history museums$xHistory. 615 0$aNatural history museums$xHistory. 676 $a508/.074/45 700 $aFindlen$b Paula$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0542857 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996248348903316 996 $aPossessing nature$9878194 997 $aUNISA