Possessing nature: museums, collecting, and scientific culture in early modern Italy
In 1500 few Europeans considered nature an object worthy of study, yet within fifty years the first museums of natural history had appeared, chiefly in Italy. Vast collections of natural curiosities - including living human dwarves, "toad-stones," and unicorn horns - were gathered by Itali...
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Berkeley, Calif. [u.a.]
Univ. of California Press
1994
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| Schriftenreihe: | Studies on the history of society and culture
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| Zusammenfassung: | In 1500 few Europeans considered nature an object worthy of study, yet within fifty years the first museums of natural history had appeared, chiefly in Italy. Vast collections of natural curiosities - including living human dwarves, "toad-stones," and unicorn horns - were gathered by Italian patricians as a means of knowing their world. The museums built around these collections became the center of a scientific culture that over the next century and a half served as a microcosm of Italian society and as the crossroads where the old and new sciences met In Possessing Nature, Paula Findlen vividly recreates the lost world of late Renaissance and Baroque Italian museums and demonstrates its significance in the history of science and culture. Based on exhaustive research into natural histories, letters, travel journals, memoirs, and pleas for patronage, Findlen describes collections and collectors great and small, beginning with Ulisse Aldrovandi, professor of natural history at the University of Bologna. Aldrovandi, whose museum was known as the "eighth wonder" of the world, was a great popularizer of collecting among the upper classes. From the universities, Findlen traces the spread of natural history in the seventeenth century to other learned sectors of society: religious orders, scientific societies, and princely courts There was, as Findlen shows, no separation between scientific culture and general political culture in Renaissance and Baroque Italy. The community of these early naturalists was, in many ways, a mirror of the humanist "republic of letters." Archival documents point to the currying of patrons and the hierarchical nature of the scientific professions, characteristics common to the larger world around them. Examining anew the society and accomplishments of the first collectors of nature, Findlen argues that the accepted distinction between the "old" Aristotelian, text-based science and the "new" empirical science during the period is false. Rather, natural history as a discipline blurred the border between the ancients and the moderns, between collecting in order to recover ancient wisdom and collecting in order to develop new scholarship. In this way, as in others, the Scientific Revolution grew from the constant mediation between the old form of knowledge and the new |
| Beschreibung: | XVII, 449 S. Ill., graph. Darst., Kt. |
| ISBN: | 0520073347 |
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| 520 | |a There was, as Findlen shows, no separation between scientific culture and general political culture in Renaissance and Baroque Italy. The community of these early naturalists was, in many ways, a mirror of the humanist "republic of letters." Archival documents point to the currying of patrons and the hierarchical nature of the scientific professions, characteristics common to the larger world around them. Examining anew the society and accomplishments of the first collectors of nature, Findlen argues that the accepted distinction between the "old" Aristotelian, text-based science and the "new" empirical science during the period is false. Rather, natural history as a discipline blurred the border between the ancients and the moderns, between collecting in order to recover ancient wisdom and collecting in order to develop new scholarship. In this way, as in others, the Scientific Revolution grew from the constant mediation between the old form of knowledge and the new | ||
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| spelling | Findlen, Paula 1964- Verfasser (DE-588)1121616127 aut Possessing nature museums, collecting, and scientific culture in early modern Italy Paula Findlen Berkeley, Calif. [u.a.] Univ. of California Press 1994 XVII, 449 S. Ill., graph. Darst., Kt. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Studies on the history of society and culture 20 In 1500 few Europeans considered nature an object worthy of study, yet within fifty years the first museums of natural history had appeared, chiefly in Italy. Vast collections of natural curiosities - including living human dwarves, "toad-stones," and unicorn horns - were gathered by Italian patricians as a means of knowing their world. The museums built around these collections became the center of a scientific culture that over the next century and a half served as a microcosm of Italian society and as the crossroads where the old and new sciences met In Possessing Nature, Paula Findlen vividly recreates the lost world of late Renaissance and Baroque Italian museums and demonstrates its significance in the history of science and culture. Based on exhaustive research into natural histories, letters, travel journals, memoirs, and pleas for patronage, Findlen describes collections and collectors great and small, beginning with Ulisse Aldrovandi, professor of natural history at the University of Bologna. Aldrovandi, whose museum was known as the "eighth wonder" of the world, was a great popularizer of collecting among the upper classes. From the universities, Findlen traces the spread of natural history in the seventeenth century to other learned sectors of society: religious orders, scientific societies, and princely courts There was, as Findlen shows, no separation between scientific culture and general political culture in Renaissance and Baroque Italy. The community of these early naturalists was, in many ways, a mirror of the humanist "republic of letters." Archival documents point to the currying of patrons and the hierarchical nature of the scientific professions, characteristics common to the larger world around them. Examining anew the society and accomplishments of the first collectors of nature, Findlen argues that the accepted distinction between the "old" Aristotelian, text-based science and the "new" empirical science during the period is false. Rather, natural history as a discipline blurred the border between the ancients and the moderns, between collecting in order to recover ancient wisdom and collecting in order to develop new scholarship. In this way, as in others, the Scientific Revolution grew from the constant mediation between the old form of knowledge and the new Aldrovandi, Ulisse 1522-1605 (DE-588)118898825 gnd rswk-swf Kircher, Athanasius 1602-1680 (DE-588)118562347 gnd rswk-swf Geschichte 1500-2000 gnd rswk-swf Geschichte 1520-1750 gnd rswk-swf Musea gtt Natuurlijke historie gtt Sciences - Musées - Europe - Histoire Sciences - Musées - Italie - Histoire Sciences naturelles - Musées - Europe - Histoire Sciences naturelles - Musées - Italie - Histoire Geschichte Natural history museums Europe History Natural history museums Italy History Science museums Europe History Science museums Italy History Museum (DE-588)4040795-0 gnd rswk-swf Naturwissenschaftliches Museum (DE-588)4352774-7 gnd rswk-swf Kunst (DE-588)4114333-4 gnd rswk-swf Naturwissenschaften (DE-588)4041421-8 gnd rswk-swf Naturkundemuseum (DE-588)4203075-4 gnd rswk-swf Europa Italien Italien (DE-588)4027833-5 gnd rswk-swf Italien (DE-588)4027833-5 g Naturkundemuseum (DE-588)4203075-4 s Geschichte 1520-1750 z DE-604 Naturwissenschaftliches Museum (DE-588)4352774-7 s Kircher, Athanasius 1602-1680 (DE-588)118562347 p Aldrovandi, Ulisse 1522-1605 (DE-588)118898825 p Kunst (DE-588)4114333-4 s Naturwissenschaften (DE-588)4041421-8 s Geschichte 1500-2000 z Museum (DE-588)4040795-0 s Studies on the history of society and culture 20 (DE-604)BV002500173 20 |
| spellingShingle | Findlen, Paula 1964- Possessing nature museums, collecting, and scientific culture in early modern Italy Studies on the history of society and culture Aldrovandi, Ulisse 1522-1605 (DE-588)118898825 gnd Kircher, Athanasius 1602-1680 (DE-588)118562347 gnd Musea gtt Natuurlijke historie gtt Sciences - Musées - Europe - Histoire Sciences - Musées - Italie - Histoire Sciences naturelles - Musées - Europe - Histoire Sciences naturelles - Musées - Italie - Histoire Geschichte Natural history museums Europe History Natural history museums Italy History Science museums Europe History Science museums Italy History Museum (DE-588)4040795-0 gnd Naturwissenschaftliches Museum (DE-588)4352774-7 gnd Kunst (DE-588)4114333-4 gnd Naturwissenschaften (DE-588)4041421-8 gnd Naturkundemuseum (DE-588)4203075-4 gnd |
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| title | Possessing nature museums, collecting, and scientific culture in early modern Italy |
| title_auth | Possessing nature museums, collecting, and scientific culture in early modern Italy |
| title_exact_search | Possessing nature museums, collecting, and scientific culture in early modern Italy |
| title_full | Possessing nature museums, collecting, and scientific culture in early modern Italy Paula Findlen |
| title_fullStr | Possessing nature museums, collecting, and scientific culture in early modern Italy Paula Findlen |
| title_full_unstemmed | Possessing nature museums, collecting, and scientific culture in early modern Italy Paula Findlen |
| title_short | Possessing nature |
| title_sort | possessing nature museums collecting and scientific culture in early modern italy |
| title_sub | museums, collecting, and scientific culture in early modern Italy |
| topic | Aldrovandi, Ulisse 1522-1605 (DE-588)118898825 gnd Kircher, Athanasius 1602-1680 (DE-588)118562347 gnd Musea gtt Natuurlijke historie gtt Sciences - Musées - Europe - Histoire Sciences - Musées - Italie - Histoire Sciences naturelles - Musées - Europe - Histoire Sciences naturelles - Musées - Italie - Histoire Geschichte Natural history museums Europe History Natural history museums Italy History Science museums Europe History Science museums Italy History Museum (DE-588)4040795-0 gnd Naturwissenschaftliches Museum (DE-588)4352774-7 gnd Kunst (DE-588)4114333-4 gnd Naturwissenschaften (DE-588)4041421-8 gnd Naturkundemuseum (DE-588)4203075-4 gnd |
| topic_facet | Aldrovandi, Ulisse 1522-1605 Kircher, Athanasius 1602-1680 Musea Natuurlijke historie Sciences - Musées - Europe - Histoire Sciences - Musées - Italie - Histoire Sciences naturelles - Musées - Europe - Histoire Sciences naturelles - Musées - Italie - Histoire Geschichte Natural history museums Europe History Natural history museums Italy History Science museums Europe History Science museums Italy History Museum Naturwissenschaftliches Museum Kunst Naturwissenschaften Naturkundemuseum Europa Italien |
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