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Science museums in transition : cultures of display in nineteenth-century Britain and America /
The nineteenth century witnessed a dramatic shift in the display and dissemination of natural knowledge across Britain and America, from private collections of miscellaneous artifacts and objects to public exhibitions and state-sponsored museums. The science museum as we know it--an institution of e...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2017.
Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2017] |
| Colección: | Science and culture in the nineteenth century.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Introduction / Carin Berkowitz and Bernard Lightman
- part I. Sites of miscellaneity
- 1. Science in Regent's Park : the Colosseum / Bernard Lightman
- 2. The permissive precincts of Barnum's and Goodrich's museums of miscellaneity : lessons in knowing nature for new learners / Katherine Pandora
- part II. Display and expertise
- 3. This post mortem palace : accommodating the Hunterian Museum / Samuel J.M.M. Alberti
- 4. Sight and sites : the national repository and the politics of seeing in early nineteenth-century England / Iwan Rhys Morus
- part III. The scientist-showman
- 5. A lecture on Locust Street : Morton, Tyndall, Pepper, and the construction of scientific reputation / Jeremy Brooker
- 6. Albert Koch's Hydrarchos craze : credibility, identity, and authenticity in nineteenth-century natural history / Lukas Rieppel
- part IV. The National Museum
- 7. "A nursery of living thoughts" : G. Brown Goode's vision for a national museum in the late nineteenth-century United States / Pamela M. Henson
- 8. Botany behind glass : the vegetable kingdom on display at Kew's Museum of Economic Botany / Caroline Cornish
- part V. The research museum
- 9. The endless frontier : Joseph Leidy and the collaborative work of natural history in mid-nineteenth-century America / Carin Berkowitz
- 10. Academic collections : teaching and exhibition on nineteenth-century American campuses / Sally Gregory Kohlstedt
- Afterword : steps to the encyclopedic museum / John Tresch.