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Author : James Petiver
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Total Pages : 106 pages
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Download or read book Musei Petiveriani centuria prima written by James Petiver and published by . This book was released on 1695 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kathleen S. Murphy
Publisher : UNC Press Books
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Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Captivity's Collections written by Kathleen S. Murphy and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cashews from Africa's Gold Coast, butterflies from Sierra Leone, jalap root from Veracruz, shells from Jamaica—in the eighteenth century, these specimens from faraway corners of the Atlantic were tucked away onboard inhumane British slaving vessels. Kathleen S. Murphy argues that the era's explosion of new natural knowledge was deeply connected to the circulation of individuals, objects, and ideas through the networks of the British transatlantic slave trade. Plants, seeds, preserved animals and insects, and other specimens were gathered by British slave ship surgeons, mariners, and traders at slaving factories in West Africa, in ports where captive Africans disembarked, and near the British South Sea Company's trading factories in Spanish America. The specimens were displayed in British museums and herbaria, depicted in published natural histories, and discussed in the halls of scientific societies. Grounded in extensive archival research on both sides of the Atlantic, Captivity's Collections mines scientific treatises, slaving companies' records, naturalists' correspondence, and museum catalogs to recover in rich detail the scope of the slave trade's collecting operations. The book reveals the scientific and natural historical profit derived from these activities and the crucial role of specimens gathered along the routes of the slave trade on emerging ideas in natural history.
Author : British Museum (Natural History). Library
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Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts, Maps and Drawings in the British Museum (Natural History) ... written by British Museum (Natural History). Library and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Royal Society (Great Britain)
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Total Pages : 852 pages
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Download or read book The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, from Their Commencement, in 1665, to the Year 1800; Abridged, with Notes and Biographic Illustrations, by Charles Hutton ... George Shaw ... Richard Pearson ...: 1694- 1702 written by Royal Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marjorie Swann
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812203178
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Curiosities and Texts written by Marjorie Swann and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A craze for collecting swept England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Aristocrats and middling-sort men alike crammed their homes full of a bewildering variety of physical objects: antique coins, scientific instruments, minerals, mummified corpses, zoological specimens, plants, ethnographic objects from Asia and the Americas, statues, portraits. Why were these bizarre jumbles of artifacts so popular? In Curiosities and Texts, Marjorie Swann demonstrates that collections of physical objects were central to early modern English literature and culture. Swann examines the famous collection of rarities assembled by the Tradescant family; the development of English natural history; narrative catalogs of English landscape features that began to appear in the Tudor and Stuart periods; the writings of Ben Jonson and Robert Herrick; and the foundation of the British Museum. Through this wide-ranging series of case studies, Swann addresses two important questions: How was the collection, which was understood as a form of cultural capital, appropriated in early modern England to construct new social selves and modes of subjectivity? And how did literary texts—both as material objects and as vehicles of representation—participate in the process of negotiating the cultural significance of collectors and collecting? Crafting her unique argument with a balance of detail and insight, Swann sheds new light on material culture's relationship to literature, social authority, and personal identity.
Author : Peter Woodhead
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780720121513
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (215 download)
Download or read book Keyguide to Information Sources in Museum Studies written by Peter Woodhead and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1994 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised and updated edition provides an integrated guide to the documentation, reference aids and key organizational sources of information about museums and museum studies worldwide. Part One provides an overview of museums and the literature about them. Part Two is an annotated bibliography, and Part Three is an international directory of organizations. A detailed index completes the work.
Author : British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology
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Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Books in the Department of Zoology written by British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Special Guides written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Herman Strecker
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Total Pages : 308 pages
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Author : American Philosophical Society. Library
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Total Pages : 408 pages
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Download or read book Catalogue of the American Philosophical Society Library written by American Philosophical Society. Library and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 412 pages
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Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Philosophical Society of the U.S written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 776 pages
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Download or read book The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, from Their Commencement, in 1665, to the Year 1800; Abridged, with Notes and Biographic Illustrations, by Charles Hutton, Georges Shaw, Richard Pearson... written by and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Royal Society
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Total Pages : 784 pages
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Download or read book The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, from Their Commencement, in 1665, to the Year 1800 written by Royal Society and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Hutton
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Total Pages : 780 pages
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Download or read book The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London from Their Commencement in 1665 to the Year 1800, Abridged with Notes and Biographic Illustr. by Charles Hutton, George Shaw, Richard Pearson written by Charles Hutton and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Natalie Zemon Davis
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674955202
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (552 download)
Download or read book Women on the Margins written by Natalie Zemon Davis and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maria Sibylla Merian, a German painter and naturalist, produced an innovative work on tropical insects based on lore she gathered from the Carib, Arawak, and African women of Suriname.
Author : Dániel Margócsy
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022611774X
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Commercial Visions written by Dániel Margócsy and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-10-09 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "Commercial Visions," Daniel Margocsy shows how entrepreneurial science has been with us since the Scientific Revolution. Product marketing, patent litigation, and even ghostwriting pervaded natural history and anatomy, the big sciences of the early modern era, and the growth of global trade during the Dutch Golden Age gave rise to a transnational network of such entrepreneurial science, connecting natural historians, physicians, and curiosi in such cities as Amsterdam, London, St. Petersburg, and Danzig. These practitioners were out to do business: they bought and sold exotica, preserved specimens, anatomical prints, and botanical atlases, and in their trade relied on particularly mercantile innovations, including postal networks, shipping, public transportation, and international banking. They also developed their own infrastructure for managing the long-distance monetary exchange of scientific knowledge and curiosities, while entrepreneurial rivalries, secrecy, and marketing strategies transformed the honorific, gift-based exchange system of the Republic of Letters into a competitive marketplace. Throughout this process, the Dutch naturalists contributed to the growth of modern science, imbuing its ethos and practices with financial undertones. "Commercial Visions "studies the interaction of commerce and science through the lens of recent scholarship on commodification, the circulation of knowledge, and the consumer revolution to argue that trade brought about a culture of scientific debate in the Netherlands that thoroughly influenced the visual epistemology of early modern science. Market competition pitted naturalists against each other, and compelled them to develop philosophical arguments to promote the representational claims of their imaging techniques. Margocsy s highly readable book will be warmly welcomed by anyone interested in early modern science, culture, and art. "
Author : Michael A. Salmon
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520229630
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The Aurelian Legacy written by Michael A. Salmon and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This entertaining and informative book traces the history of butterfly collection in Britain from the 17th century, when the study of natural history had its beginnings. Laced with anecdotes and quotations, the beautifully illustrated volume describes the equipment used and gives brief biographies of 101 deceased lepidopterists. 58 illustrations, 42 in color.
