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Collecting the World

Author : James Delbourgo
Publisher : Belknap Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674237483
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Collecting the World written by James Delbourgo and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 2019-03-18 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Leo Gershoy Award Winner of the Louis Gottschalk Prize A Times Book of the Week When the British Museum opened its doors in 1759, it was the first free national public museum in the world. Collecting the World tells the story of the eccentric collector whose thirst for universal knowledge brought it into being. A man of insatiable curiosity and wide-ranging interests, Hans Sloane assembled a collection of antiquities, oddities, and artifacts from around the British Empire to form the most famous cabinet of curiosities of its time. With few curbs on his passion, he established a network of agents to supply him with objects from China, India, the Caribbean, and beyond. Wampum beads, rare manuscripts, a shoe made of human skin: nothing was off limits. The first biography of Sloane based on his complete writings, Collecting the World portrays one of the Enlightenment's most original luminaries. "A magnificent scholarly coup and an enthralling read... It conveys the excitement of original research as well as the thrill of tracking exotic curiosities to their source." --Sunday Times "Delbourgo's engrossing new biography situates Sloane within the welter of intellectual and political crosscurrents that marked his times." --New York Times Book Review "A superb biography--humane, judicious and as passionately curious as Sloane himself." --Times Literary Supplement "A superb book, enjoyably written, beautifully illustrated, and based on deep knowledge of the sources." --The Telegraph

From Books to Bezoars

Author : Alison Walker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780712358804
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (588 download)

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Download or read book From Books to Bezoars written by Alison Walker and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This well-illustrated volume offers fresh perspectives on the great eighteenth-century physician, naturalist, and collector Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753), whose extensive holdings formed the basis of the British Museum and its offspring, the Natural History Museum and the British Library. The colonial milieu within which Sloane operated gets prominence here, particularly the time he spent in Jamaica. Attention is paid to his enormous network of acquaintances and correspondents throughout the world as well as to the way his collecting activities permeated every aspect of his life. Other essays consider the museum specimens accumulated by Sloane--both natural and man-made--shedding new light on his aims for acquiring and organizing them. A fascinating look at the man behind three of the United Kingdom's most famous museums, From Books to Bezoars will appeal to students and scholars of eighteenth century studies, early modern science, and the history of the book.

A Voyage to the Islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica

Author : Sir Hans Sloane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 922 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Voyage to the Islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica written by Sir Hans Sloane and published by . This book was released on 1707 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sir Hans Sloane

Author : Arthur MacGregor
Publisher : British Museum Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Sir Hans Sloane written by Arthur MacGregor and published by British Museum Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Hans Sloane was a considerable figure in his time. He was the natural successor to Sir Isaac Newton as President of the Royal Society, President of the Royal College of Physicians and the friend of John Ray, Robert Boyle and other principal figures in the learned community of his day. He was also the author of a major two volume Natural History of Jamaica, the result of personal fieldwork on the island while a young man.

The Rosetta Stone

Author : E. A. Wallis Budge
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486157229
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book The Rosetta Stone written by E. A. Wallis Budge and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-27 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascinating account of great linguistic detective story — discovery of Stone, history of the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics; work of Young, Champollion, other scholars; much more. 23 photographs. Bibliography.

The Collectors

Author : Mark Carine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780565094881
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (948 download)

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Download or read book The Collectors written by Mark Carine and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lavishly illustrated book reveals the lives of the people who assembled the greatest botanical collection of the Early Modern period, with stories of adventure and discovery across every continent. Sir Hans Sloane's herbarium, housed at the Natural History Museum in London, is probably the most extensive herbarium collection of its kind. It exemplifies the rich history of exploration and discovery in the period preceding Cook's voyages, and it remains of considerable scientific and historical value today. Assembled between the 1680s and 1750s, it comprises an estimated 120,000 pressed plant specimens. More than 300 people contributed to its development across more than 70 countries.

Enlightenment

Author : Kim Sloan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enlightenment written by Kim Sloan and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Enlightenment was a period of intense activity devoted to discovery and learning about the natural world, the past and other civilizations. Classification, collecting and deciphering were all important stages on the way to understanding the world and its inhabitants. The King's Library was built to house the books donated from the royal libraries of King George II and his grandson King George III, and they epitomize the interest in the late 18th and early 19th centuries in scholarship and study. Aimed at the general reader and relevant to many academic diciplines, this book explores the ways people acquired new information, organized their ideas and reached their conclusions.

The British Museum

Author : David Mackenzie Wilson
Publisher : Peoples of the Past
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The British Museum written by David Mackenzie Wilson and published by Peoples of the Past. This book was released on 2002 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British Museum is the oldest publicly funded museum in the world. This volume tells the story of the collections, the buildings that house them, and the people who have administered and curated them since its foundation in 1753.

Benjamin Franklin in London

Author : George Goodwin
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300220243
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Benjamin Franklin in London written by George Goodwin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of Franklin's British years.

Artifacts and Allegiances

Author : Peggy Levitt
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520286065
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Artifacts and Allegiances written by Peggy Levitt and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can we learn about nationalism by looking at a countryÕs cultural institutions? How do the history and culture of particular cities help explain how museums represent diversity? Artifacts and Allegiances takes us around the world to tell the compelling story of how museums today are making sense of immigration and globalization. Based on firsthand conversations with museum directors, curators, and policymakers; descriptions of current and future exhibitions; and inside stories about the famous paintings and iconic objects that define collections across the globe, this work provides a close-up view of how different kinds of institutions balance nationalism and cosmopolitanism. By comparing museums in Europe, the United States, Asia, and the Middle East, Peggy Levitt offers a fresh perspective on the role of the museum in shaping citizens. Taken together, these accounts tell the fascinating story of a sea change underway in the museum world at large.

Birds in Eighteenth-Century Literature

Author : Brycchan Carey
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030327922
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Birds in Eighteenth-Century Literature written by Brycchan Carey and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines literary representations of birds from across the world in anage of expanding European colonialism. It offers important new perspectives intothe ways birds populate and generate cultural meaning in a variety of literary andnon-literary genres from 1700–1840 as well as throughout a broad range ofecosystems and bioregions. It considers a wide range of authors, including someof the most celebrated figures in eighteenth-century literature such as John Gay,Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Anna Letitia Barbauld, William Cowper, MaryWollstonecraft, Thomas Bewick, Charlotte Smith, William Wordsworth, andGilbert White. ignwogwog[p

Sir Hans Sloane's Plants on Chelsea Porcelain

Author : Sally Kevill-Davies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780956570222
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Sir Hans Sloane's Plants on Chelsea Porcelain written by Sally Kevill-Davies and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chelsea Physic Garden, from 1722 under the care of the head gardener, Philip Miller and the patronage of Sir Hans Sloane, became one of the leading centres of botanical research in Europe. This was a time when presiously unkown plants from the New World, Africa and Asia were arriving in Europe on almost every ship. Many of these plants were illustrated by Georg Dionysuis Ehret, the pre-eminent botanical artist fo the day, in Miller's, Figures and Plants. Ehret also contributed to horticulrual books in Europe, notabley Plantae Selectae by C.J Trew and Phytantheoza Iconographia by JJ Weinman. Many of these illustrations were used as sources for the vibrant botanical decoration on Chelsea porcealin of the 1750's which became know as 'Sir Hans Sloanes's Plants'. This catalogue includes chapters on Sir Hans Sloane, the Physic Garden and Philip Miller's role in receiving and propogating the imported plants and seeds from around the world, particulary the New World, the translantic plant hunters, the revolution in garden design and the study of of plants and the Chelsea wares which are decorated in the particular botanical style.

Astrolabes in Medieval Cultures

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004387862
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Astrolabes in Medieval Cultures written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-01-28 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published as a special issue of the journal Medieval Encounters (vol. 23, 2017), this volume, edited by Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas, Charles Burnett, Silke Ackermann, and Ryan Szpiech, brings together fifteen studies on various aspects of the astrolabe in medieval cultures. The astrolabe, developed in antiquity and elaborated throughout the Middle Ages, was used for calculation, teaching, and observation, and also served astrological and medical purposes. It was the most popular and prestigious of the mathematical instruments, and was found equally among practitioners of various sciences and arts as among princes in royal courts. By considering sources and instruments from Muslim, Christian, and Jewish contexts, this volume provides state-of-the-art research on the history and use of the astrolabe throughout the Middle Ages. Contributors are Silke Ackermann, Emilia Calvo, John Davis, Laura Fernández Fernández, Miquel Forcada, Azucena Hernández, David A. King, Taro Mimura, Günther Oestmann, Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas, Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma, Petra G. Schmidl, Giorgio Strano, Flora Vafea, and Johannes Thomann.

A Curious Herbal Containing Five Hundred Cuts of the Most Useful Plants which are Now Used in the Practice of Physick Engraved... by Elizabeth Blackwell...

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Author : Elizabeth Blackwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)

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Archival Afterlives

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004324305
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Archival Afterlives written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archival Afterlives explores the posthumous fortunes of scientific and medical archives in early modern Britain. If early modern natural philosophers claimed all knowledge as their province, theirs was a paper empire. But how and why did naturalists engage with archives, and in particular, with the papers of their dead predecessors? This volume makes a firm case for expanding what counts as scientific labour, integrating scribes, archivist, library keepers, editors, and friends and family of deceased naturalists into the history of science. It shows how early modern natural philosophers pursued new natural knowledge in dialogue with their recent material past. Finally, it demonstrates the sustaining importance of archival institutions in the growth and development of the “New Sciences.” Contributors are: Arnold Hunt, Michael Hunter, Vera Keller, Carol Pal, Anna Marie Roos, Richard Serjeantson, Victoria Sloyan, Alison Walker, and Elizabeth Yale.

The Natural History Museum

Author : John C. Thackray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Natural History Museum written by John C. Thackray and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking the reader on a whirlwind journey through the history of the Natural History Museum, this volume covers the people, the influences and the discoveries. It chronicles the most important milestones in the development of the Museum.

Complete Illustrated Catalogue

Author : National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain)
Publisher : Third Millennium Information
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 864 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Complete Illustrated Catalogue written by National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) and published by Third Millennium Information. This book was released on 2004 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This re-designed and fully updated and expanded edition of the National Portrait Gallery's Complete Illustrated Catalogue is a comprehensive listing of every painting, drawing, miniature, print, photograph and sculpture in the main collection." ... "The culmination of years of research, this exhaustive and authoritative catalogue includes over 10,500 entries, organised alphabetically by sitter and provides the title, date, attribution, media and acquisition details for every work. Portraits of the same subject by different artists and at different times can be compared." "An indispensable reference tool for scholars, researchers, historians and art historians, with over 8,000 illustrations, this catalogue now forms the largest printed survey of British portraiture in existence, a miniature National Portrait Gallery in itself."--Jacket.