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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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Maps
  • Note on Conventions
  • Introduction: The Original Sloane Ranger
  • PART ONE. Empire of Curiosities
  • 1. Transplantation
  • 2. Island of Curiosities
  • 3. Keeping the Species from Being Lost
  • PART TWO. Assembling the World
  • 4. Becoming Hans Sloane
  • 5. The World Comes to Bloomsbury
  • 6. Putting the World in Order
  • 7. Creating the Public's Museum
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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