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Collecting the World : Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum /
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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[2017]
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Contents -- |t List of Illustrations -- |t List of Maps -- |t Note on Conventions -- |t Introduction: The Original Sloane Ranger -- |t PART ONE. Empire of Curiosities -- |t 1. Transplantation -- |t 2. Island of Curiosities -- |t 3. Keeping the Species from Being Lost -- |t PART TWO. Assembling the World -- |t 4. Becoming Hans Sloane -- |t 5. The World Comes to Bloomsbury -- |t 6. Putting the World in Order -- |t 7. Creating the Public's Museum -- |t Acknowledgements -- |t Notes -- |t Bibliography -- |t Index |
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| 653 | |a Atlantic slave trade. | ||
| 653 | |a Natural History of Jamaica. | ||
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| 653 | |a art collecting. | ||
| 653 | |a botany. | ||
| 653 | |a global scientific knowledge. | ||
| 653 | |a human curiosities. | ||
| 653 | |a natural history. | ||
| 653 | |a scientific classification. | ||
| 653 | |a visual knowledge. | ||
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