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Possessing Nature
Museums, Collecting And Scientific Culture In Early Modern Italy
University Presses Of California, Columbia And Princeton (United States), 1996
Paperback, 449 pages
Size: 229x152 mm
ISBN: 9780520205086
ISBN-10: 0520205081
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Possessing Nature
Drawing on archives of visitor's books, letters, travel journals, memoirs and pleas for patronage, this work reconstructs the lost social world of Renaissance and Baroque museums. It reveals how the scientific revolution grew from the mediation between old forms of knowledge and the new.


