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Manuscript Catalogues Of The Early Museum Collections 1683 1886
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Book Synopsis Manuscript Catalogues of the Early Museum Collections, 1683-1886 by : Arthur MacGregor
Download or read book Manuscript Catalogues of the Early Museum Collections, 1683-1886 written by Arthur MacGregor and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than three centuries the collections of the Ashmolean Museum have occupied a position of primary importance in the history of collecting. The manuscript inventories of successive curators, many previously unpublished, represent a fundamental resource for scholars, providing a record of both the fluctuating content of the museum and of the changing preoccupations of collectors and donors.
Book Synopsis Manuscript Catalogues of the Early Museum Collections by : Arthur MacGregor
Download or read book Manuscript Catalogues of the Early Museum Collections written by Arthur MacGregor and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Manuscript Catalogues of the Early Museum Collections, 1683-1886 by : Arthur MacGregor
Download or read book Manuscript Catalogues of the Early Museum Collections, 1683-1886 written by Arthur MacGregor and published by British Archaeological Reports. This book was released on 2000 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transcriptions and translations of sixteen manuscript catalogues of a wide range of items held in the Ashmolean Museum between 1683 and 1886. The catalogues include books of benefactors to the Museum, catalogues of curiosities, gems, minerals, shells, fossils, zoological, ethnological and anthropological specimens as well as specimens collected from Cook's second Pacific voyage and curiosities from the Figi or Cannibal Islands. The second volume will publish the recently rediscovered AMS 11 which provides an invaluable record of the Museum's early collections.
Book Synopsis The Dodo and the Solitaire by : Jolyon C. Parish
Download or read book The Dodo and the Solitaire written by Jolyon C. Parish and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive book to date about these two famously extinct birds.
Book Synopsis Edward Lhwyd by : Brynley F. Roberts
Download or read book Edward Lhwyd written by Brynley F. Roberts and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2022-07-15 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the significance of Lhwyd’s discoveries in the fields of botany, palaeontology, epigraphy, antiquarian studies and linguistics. The book places Lhwyd’s contribution in the context of recent work in these fields. This book provides links to websites for readers to follow up for further study.
Book Synopsis Johann Reinhold Forster and the Making of Natural History on Cook's Second Voyage, 1772–1775 by : Anne Mariss
Download or read book Johann Reinhold Forster and the Making of Natural History on Cook's Second Voyage, 1772–1775 written by Anne Mariss and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-09-09 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Cook’s voyages of exploration are a turning point not only in the history of the British Empire, but also in the history of science and exploration of the Pacific. The last decades have seen a wide-ranging scholarly interest in Cook’s voyages, focusing on their impact on European and Polynesian societies, their scientific results, and their protagonists, such as Cook himself or the nobleman Joseph Banks who took part in Cook’s first voyage of exploration. This book examines the hitherto underestimated role of the German scholar Johann Reinhold Forster who, together with his son Georg Forster, accompanied Cook on his second voyage of exploration (1772–1775) as a principal naturalist. For a long time, the German traveler has remained a rather shadowy figure of Cook’s voyages of exploration and has only attracted scholarly attention occasionally. Focusing on the making of knowledge onboard the ship and the islands where it made landfall, the study provides a historical reappraisal of Forster’s scientific performance as a leading naturalist of his time. By examining Forster’s Resolution Journal, Anne Mariss takes a microhistorical approach toward the making of natural history knowledge during the expedition to the Pacific. Mariss unveils the difficulties the traveling naturalists encountered while collecting, describing, classifying, and painting the natural world. Her study brings to light the contribution of the various actors who were involved in this undertaking, such as the scientific assistants, sailors, officers, and the local actors of the Pacific world.
Book Synopsis World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: A Characterization by : Dan Hicks
Download or read book World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: A Characterization written by Dan Hicks and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2013-03-08 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: a characterization introduces the range, history and significance of the archaeological collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford.
Book Synopsis John Wilkins (1614-1672): New Essays by : William Poole
Download or read book John Wilkins (1614-1672): New Essays written by William Poole and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cutting-edge reappraisal of Wilkins and his achievement, featuring ten studies covering all aspects of Wilkins’s career as an influential natural philosopher, theologian, and statesman.
Book Synopsis History of Universities XXXV / 1 by : Robin Darwall-Smith
Download or read book History of Universities XXXV / 1 written by Robin Darwall-Smith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-26 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This special edition of History of Universities, Volume XXXV/1, studies and reappraises the often ignored history of eighteenth-century Oxford, caught as it is between the upheavals of the Stuart century and the reformation of the Victorian era.
Book Synopsis Wonders Lost and Found: A Celebration of the Archaeological Work of Professor Michael Vickers by : Nicholas Sekunda
Download or read book Wonders Lost and Found: A Celebration of the Archaeological Work of Professor Michael Vickers written by Nicholas Sekunda and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-02-13 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-one contributions, written by friends and colleagues, reflect the wide interests of Professor Michael Vickers; from the Aegean Bronze Age to the use made of archaeology by dictators in the modern age. Seven contributions relate to Georgia, where the Professor has worked most recently, and made his home.
Download or read book Web of Nature written by Anna Marie Roos and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first full-length biography of Dr. Martin Lister (1639-1712), vice-president of the Royal Society, Royal Physician, and the first arachnologist and conchologist, provides an unprecedented picture of a seventeenth-century virtuoso. Lister is recognized for his discovery of ballooning spiders and as the father of conchology, but it is less well known that he invented the histogram, provided Newton with alloys, and donated the first significant natural history collections to the Ashmolean Museum. Just as Lister was the first to make a systematic study of spiders and their webs, this biography is the first to analyze the significant webs of knowledge, patronage, and familial and gender relationships that governed his life as a scientist and physician.
Author :William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Publisher :University of Toronto Press ISBN 13 :1442640626 Total Pages :401 pages Book Rating :4.4/5 (426 download)
Book Synopsis Structures of Feeling in Seventeenth-century Cultural Expression by : William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Download or read book Structures of Feeling in Seventeenth-century Cultural Expression written by William Andrews Clark Memorial Library and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays based on papers presented at four international conferences held at the UCLA Clark Library, 2005.
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Engraved Gems and Finger Rings: Roman by : Ashmolean Museum
Download or read book Catalogue of the Engraved Gems and Finger Rings: Roman written by Ashmolean Museum and published by British Archaeological Reports. This book was released on 1978 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This catalogue of 860 Roman engraved gems and finger-rings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford is the third in the Beazley Archive series "Studies in Gems and Jewellery". Catalogue themed headings include: gods; goddesses; personifications; children's rings;scenes from daily life; theatrical subjects; animals, birds and many more.
Book Synopsis The Ashmolean Museum by : Arthur MacGregor
Download or read book The Ashmolean Museum written by Arthur MacGregor and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: this history of collectiong, The Ashmolean houses the University of Oxford's unrivalled works of art and antiquities from Europe, Central Asia and the Far East.
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Download or read book Oxford Bibliographical Society Publications written by and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Albrecht Dürer and His Legacy by : Giulia Bartrum
Download or read book Albrecht Dürer and His Legacy written by Giulia Bartrum and published by British Museum Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) was in a sense the first truly international artist. The collection of his work in the British Museum is one of the best in the world. This book shows how his sophisticated development of the techniques of woodcut and engraving introduced the idea of multiple images into fine art and thereby altered the history of printmaking. The chronology of his career is traced from his early work in the medieval tradition of Martin Schongauer, through the experience he acquired while living in Italy, to his major print projects for the Holy Roman Emperor, Maximilian I." "The book also examines Durer's influence at later periods, from the obsessive interest in his work by collectors and artists during the late sixteenth century to the virtually iconic status he acquired amid the rise of German nationalism during the nineteenth century. The Nobel-winning German novelist Gunter Grass, himself a printmaker, contributes a subjective view of Durer's images from a twentieth-century standpoint, while other introductory essays by Guilia Bartrum, Joseph Koerner and Ute Kuhlemann consider aspects of Durer's legacy through history. The illustrations include all Durer's best-known prints as well as numerous drawings and watercolours."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book Marvels & Tales written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journal of fairy-tale studies.
