Curiosity and enlightenment: collectors and collections from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century
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New Haven ; London
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Yale University Press
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c2007
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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x, 386 p. : ill. )some col.( ; 28 cm.
GENERAL NOTES
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Includes bibliographical references )p. 347-370( and index
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ISBN: 9780300124934
NOTES PERTAINING TO TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
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Arthur MacGregor
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CONTENTS NOTE
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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