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Possessing nature : museums, collecting, and scientific culture in early modern Italy /

In 1500 few Europeans regarded nature as a subject worthy of inquiry. Yet fifty years later the first museums of natural history had appeared in Italy, dedicated to the marvels of nature. Italian patricians, their curiosity fueled by new voyages of exploration and the humanist rediscovery of nature,...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Findlen, Paula (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1994.
Collection:Studies on the history of society and culture ; 20.
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