Collecting the World : Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum /

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In 1759 the British Museum opened its doors to the public-the first free national museum in the world. James Delbourgo recounts the story behind its creation through the life of Hans Sloane, a controversial luminary with an insatiable ambition to pit universal knowledge against superstition and few...

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Autor principal: Delbourgo, James (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2017]
Temas:
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical.
Atlantic slave trade.
Natural History of Jamaica.
Royal Society.
art collecting.
botany.
global scientific knowledge.
human curiosities.
natural history.
scientific classification.
visual knowledge.
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Sumario:In 1759 the British Museum opened its doors to the public-the first free national museum in the world. James Delbourgo recounts the story behind its creation through the life of Hans Sloane, a controversial luminary with an insatiable ambition to pit universal knowledge against superstition and few curbs on his passion for collecting the world.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (544 p.) : 42 color, 27 b/w, 3 maps.
ISBN:9780674982789
9783110543315
Acceso:restricted access

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