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Possessing Nature, Volume 20: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy by Paula Findlen

Studies on the History of Society and Culture

Possessing Nature, Volume 20: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy

Paula Findlen

449 pages paperback

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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, dedicated to the marvels of nature. Italian patricians, their curiosity fueled by new voyages o...

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