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Collecting nature /

Papers presented at an international conference, organized by the working group Collecting and Display, held at Schwabenakademie Irsee, Germany, in May 2013.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gáldy, Andrea M. (Editor ), Heudecker, Sylvia, 1969- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.
Colección:Collecting Histories
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Arthur MacGregor
  • Chapter abstracts
  • Collecting nature within nature : animal inclusions in amber in early modern collections / Rachel King
  • Collecting zoological rarities at the Medici court : real, stuffed and depicted beasts as cultural signs / Angelica Groom
  • Wenzel Jamnitzer's mortar : life casting and court experimentalism in the 16th century / Virginie Spenlé
  • Ornithology and collecting in the Dutch golden age : the collecting of exotica and captured specimens / Joy Kearney
  • The birds in Mark Catesby's Natural history : collected, depicted, commodified / Shepard Krech III
  • A princely plant collector in Renaissance Germany / Miriam Hall Kirch
  • Collecting the painted Netherlands : the art collection of Archduke Ernest of Austria in Brussels / Ivo Raband
  • The correspondence of Henry Oldenburg and circulation of objects at the early Royal Society of London, 1660-1677 / Iordan Avramov
  • Carl Linnaeus and the natural history collections of Lovisa Ulrika of Sweden at Drottningholm Palace / Anne Harbers
  • The early modern library as a site for collecting and display of scientific instruments / Inga Elmqvist Söderlund
  • Epilogue and outlook: Collecting nature/archiving Eden / Dornith Doherty.