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Findlen, Paula,

Possessing nature : museums, collecting, and scientific culture in early modern Italy / Paula Findlen. - 1 online resource (xvii, 449 pages) : illustrations, map. - Studies on the history of society and culture ; 20 . - Studies on the history of society and culture ; 20. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-432) and index.

Locating the museum -- "A world of wonders in one closet shut" -- Searching for paradigms -- Sites of knowledge -- Laboratories of nature -- Pilgrimages of science -- Fare esperienza -- Museums of medicine -- Economies of exchange -- Inventing the collector -- Patrons, brokers, and strategies -- Epilogue: The old and the new.

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 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.

ISBN: 9780520917781 0520917782

Source: 22573/ctt4brx09 JSTOR

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Science museums--History.--Italy
Science museums--History.--Europe
Natural history museums--History.--Italy
Natural history museums--History.--Europe
NATURE--Essays.
NATURE--Reference.
TRAVEL--Special Interest--Ecotourism.
HISTORY--General.--Europe
Natural history museums.
Science museums.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Europe.
Italy.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
History.

LC Class. No.: Q105.I8 / F56 1994eb

Dewey Class. No.: 508/.074/45