عنوان

Possessing nature :

شابک

0520073347

شابک

0520205081

شابک

1299964214

شابک

9780520073340

شابک

9780520205086

شابک

9781299964211

شماره

dltt

عنوان اصلي

Possessing nature :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

museums, collecting, and scientific culture in early modern Italy /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Paula Findlen

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xvii, 449 pages :

ساير جزييات

illustrations, map ;

ابعاد

24 cm

عنوان فروست

Studies on the history of society and culture ;

مشخصه جلد

20

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-432) and index

متن يادداشت

pt. I. Locating the Museum. 1. "A World of Wonders in One Closet Shut" 2. Searching for Paradigms. 3. Sites of Knowledge -- pt. II. Laboratories of Nature. 4. Pilgrimages of Science. 5. Fare Esperienza. 6. Museums of Medicine -- pt. III. Economies of Exchange. 7. Inventing the Collector. 8. Patrons, Brokers, and Strategies -- Epilogue: The Old and the New

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

In 1500 few Europeans considered nature an object worthy of study, yet within fifty years the first museums of natural history had appeared, chiefly in Italy. Vast collections of natural curiosities - including living human dwarves, "toad-stones," and unicorn horns - were gathered by Italian patricians as a means of knowing their world. The museums built around these collections became the center of a scientific culture that over the next century and a half served as a microcosm of Italian society and as the crossroads where the old and new sciences met

متن يادداشت

In Possessing Nature, Paula Findlen vividly recreates the lost world of late Renaissance and Baroque Italian museums and demonstrates its significance in the history of science and culture. Based on exhaustive research into natural histories, letters, travel journals, memoirs, and pleas for patronage, Findlen describes collections and collectors great and small, beginning with Ulisse Aldrovandi, professor of natural history at the University of Bologna. Aldrovandi, whose museum was known as the "eighth wonder" of the world, was a great popularizer of collecting among the upper classes. From the universities, Findlen traces the spread of natural history in the seventeenth century to other learned sectors of society: religious orders, scientific societies, and princely courts

متن يادداشت

Possessing Nature is a unique cross-disciplinary study. Not only does its detailed description of the earliest natural history collections make an important contribution to museum studies and cultural history, but by placing these museums in a continuum of scientific inquiry, it also adds to our understanding of the history of science

متن يادداشت

There was, as Findlen shows, no separation between scientific culture and general political culture in Renaissance and Baroque Italy. The community of these early naturalists was, in many ways, a mirror of the humanist "republic of letters." Archival documents point to the currying of patrons and the hierarchical nature of the scientific professions, characteristics common to the larger world around them. Examining anew the society and accomplishments of the first collectors of nature, Findlen argues that the accepted distinction between the "old" Aristotelian, text-based science and the "new" empirical science during the period is false. Rather, natural history as a discipline blurred the border between the ancients and the moderns, between collecting in order to recover ancient wisdom and collecting in order to develop new scholarship. In this way, as in others, the Scientific Revolution grew from the constant mediation between the old form of knowledge and the new

موضوع مستند نشده

Natural history museums-- Europe-- History

موضوع مستند نشده

Natural history museums-- Italy-- History

موضوع مستند نشده

Science museums-- Europe-- History

موضوع مستند نشده

Science museums-- Italy-- History

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Findlen, Paula

تاريخ عمليات

20160908075120.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

rda

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y