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'The First National Museum' : Dublin's Natural History Museum in the mid-nineteenth century /
"Dublin's Natural History Museum is a uniquely preserved sliver of the past, an intact example of a nineteenth- century natural science collection. While its polished cases and stuffed animals show us what the museum looked like in its heyday, this book is the first detailed exploration of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cork, Ireland :
Cork University Press,
2021.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Half Title
- Dedication
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Author's Note
- Introduction
- Part 1 Establishing the Natural History Museum
- Chapter 1 Enlightenment Roots, International Contexts
- Chapter 2 Science, Education and Public Service: The Natural History Museum from 1840 to 1850
- Chapter 3 The First National Museum
- Part 2 Scientific Knowledge and the Uses of the Natural History Museum
- Chapter 4 Building the Collections: Participation in natural history in nineteenth-century Ireland
- Chapter 5 Collections into Knowledge: Scientific uses of the Natural History Museum
- Chapter 6 Specimens and Networks: Collections and scientific papers
- Conclusion The Natural History Museum as a Cultural Formation
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back Cover