Curiosity and enlightenment: collectors and collections from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century
New Haven ; London
Yale University Press
c2007
x, 386 p. : ill. )some col.( ; 28 cm.
Includes bibliographical references )p. 347-370( and index
ISBN: 9780300124934
Arthur MacGregor
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The museum adumbrated : some models and precursors -- The cabinet of curiosities : concept and realization -- Collecting art -- Museums and the natural world -- Death, anatomy and the museum -- Antiquity in transition -- Museums of science and technology -- The museum comes of age