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Kunst und Wissenschaft
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ISBN: 3728114642 Year: 1984 Publisher: Zürich Verlag der Fachvereine


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Over grenzen : traditie en vernieuwing in de wetenschappelijke bibliotheek
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ISBN: 9075727933 9789075727937 Year: 1998 Publisher: Amsterdam Cramwinckel

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Bijdragen over hedendaagse ontwikkelingen in de Nederlandse wetenschappelijke bibliotheken.

Curiosities and texts: the culture of collecting in early modern England
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ISBN: 0812236106 9786613212009 1283212005 0812203178 Year: 2001 Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa University of Pennsylvania Press

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A craze for collecting swept England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Aristocrats and middling-sort men alike crammed their homes full of a bewildering variety of physical objects: antique coins, scientific instruments, minerals, mummified corpses, zoological specimens, plants, ethnographic objects from Asia and the Americas, statues, portraits. Why were these bizarre jumbles of artifacts so popular?In Curiosities and Texts, Marjorie Swann demonstrates that collections of physical objects were central to early modern English literature and culture. Swann examines the famous collection of rarities assembled by the Tradescant family; the development of English natural history; narrative catalogs of English landscape features that began to appear in the Tudor and Stuart periods; the writings of Ben Jonson and Robert Herrick; and the foundation of the British Museum.Through this wide-ranging series of case studies, Swann addresses two important questions: How was the collection, which was understood as a form of cultural capital, appropriated in early modern England to construct new social selves and modes of subjectivity? And how did literary texts-both as material objects and as vehicles of representation-participate in the process of negotiating the cultural significance of collectors and collecting? Crafting her unique argument with a balance of detail and insight, Swann sheds new light on material culture's relationship to literature, social authority, and personal identity.


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Glossaire des matériaux de la couleur et des termes techniques employés dans les recettes de couleurs anciennes
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ISBN: 2503516432 9782503516431 Year: 2005 Volume: 73 Publisher: Turnhout Brepols


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Het 'Boeck der natuere': Nederlandse geleerden en de wonderen van Gods schepping, 1575-1715
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ISBN: 9059970276 9789059970274 Year: 2006 Publisher: Leiden Primavera


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Visible empire : botanical expeditions & visual culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment
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ISBN: 9780226058535 0226058530 Year: 2012 Publisher: Chicago, Ill. University of Chicago Press


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The Scientific Image. From Cave to Computer
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ISBN: 0810938235 9780810938236 9780716725046 0716725045 Year: 1992 Publisher: New York Abrams

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"Examines the efforts of scholars and science aficionados alike to conceive, document, describe, classify, order, and analyze natural phenomena with the aid of illustrations as varied as their interests and methods. Author Harry Robin has assembled scores of intriguing images, including an ancient Chinese pulse chart; stroboscopic photographs, PET scans, and computer graphics, a detailed rendering of fossil layers in a mountain sliced by glacial erosion, astronomical drawings from the tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh, and diagrams of sixteenth-century methods for treating crossed eyes and an injured spine. Each illustration is accompanied by an insightful, accessible commentary, in which Robin explains the image and its context."

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