Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy (Studies on the History of...

Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy (Studies on the History of...

by Findlen, Paula
  • List Price: $33.95
  • ISBN-10: 0520205081
  • ISBN-13: 9780520205086
  • Edition: 1st
  • Type: Kindle Edition
  • Publisher: University of California Press

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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,... Read more

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