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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 927 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1909400610
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1039 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004323841
Through the personal narratives those who have struggled over the past five centuries and more to comprehend and to document the natural world, the progress of natural history from speculative pursuit to systematic science is here explored, contextualized and illustrated.
Author : Peter Mason
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781789147483
A critical biography of the early modern Italian naturalist. The Bolognese naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi was a prolific writer, polymath, and prodigious collector who amassed the largest collection of naturalia in sixteenth-century Europe, as well as hundreds of colored drawings detailing them. Many of these drawings found their way into his illustrated publications, most of which were published posthumously. This book provides a concise yet comprehensive portrait of Aldrovandi, paying particular attention to two aspects: the role that the newly discovered continent of America played in his research interests, and his study of abnormalities of physiological development in organisms. Peter Mason gives insight into Aldrovandi’s fascinating life, his early work on antiquities, his natural history and other collecting activities, his network of correspondents and patrons, and the influence and legacy of his collection and publications.
Author : Helen Anne Curry,Nicholas Jardine,James Andrew Secord,Emma C. Spary
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 683 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781316510315
Explores the development of natural history since the Renaissance and contextualizes current discussions of biodiversity.
Author : Theodore Sherman Palmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Birds
ISBN : HARVARD:32044053560876
Author : K. J. P. Lowe
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691246895
A thought-provoking study of how knowledge of provenance was not transferred with enslaved people and goods from the Portuguese trading empire to Renaissance Italy In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Renaissance Italy received a bounty of "goods" from Portuguese trading voyages—fruits of empire that included luxury goods, exotic animals and even enslaved people. Many historians hold that this imperial "opening up" of the world transformed the way Europeans understood the global. In this book, K.J.P. Lowe challenges such an assumption, showing that Italians of this era cared more about the possession than the provenance of their newly acquired global goods. With three detailed case studies involving Florence and Rome, and drawing on unpublished archival material, Lowe documents the myriad occasions on which global knowledge became dissociated from overseas objects, animals and people. Fundamental aspects of these imperial imports, including place of origin and provenance, she shows, failed to survive the voyage and make landfall in Europe. Lowe suggests that there were compelling reasons for not knowing or caring about provenance, and concludes that geographical knowledge, like all knowledge, was often restricted and not valued. Examining such documents as ledger entries, journals and public and private correspondence as well as extant objects, and asking previously unasked questions, Lowe meticulously reconstructs the backstories of Portuguese imperial acquisitions, painstakingly supplying the context. She chronicles the phenomenon of mixed-ancestry children at Florence’s foundling hospital; the ownership of inanimate luxury goods, notably those possessed by the Medicis; and the acquisition of enslaved people and animals. How and where goods were acquired, Lowe argues, were of no interest to fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italians; possession was paramount.
Author : Henrietta McBurney,Ian Rolfe,Caterina Napoleone,Paula Findlen,Carlo Violani
Publisher : Harvey Miller
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Birds in art
ISBN : 1909400602
This catalogue brings together some of the finest natural history drawings executed for Cassiano, including 251 coloured drawings of fauna, and 63 of gems, marbles, fossils and other natural curiosities. Cassiano had a particular interest in ornithology, and birds are thus the best-represented members of the animal kingdom in this group, with more than 200 drawings of both native and exotic species. Other drawings of fauna catalogued here include mammals, fishes and crustaceans. Like the bird drawings, many are drawn with painstaking attention to detail and scale, a complete specimen drawn on a reduced scale to fit the sheet, with anatomical details depicted life size. The drawings of mineral specimens and other natural curiosities depict the sort of item commonly found in seventeenth-century collectors' cabinets: gemstones, bezoars, marbles, corals, 'Lucifer' stones, fossils, exotic seeds and beans, as well as scientific instruments.
Author : Paul J. Smith,Florike Egmond
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 777 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004681187
Ichthyology in Context (1500–1880) provides a broad spectre of early modern manifestations of human fascination with fish – “fish” understood in the early modern sense of the term, as aquatilia: all aquatic animals, including sea mammals and crustaceans. It addresses the period’s quickly growing knowledge about fish in its multiple, varied and rapidly changing interaction with culture. This topic is approached from various disciplines: history of science, cultural history, history of collections, historical ecology, art history, literary studies, and lexicology. Attention is given to the problematic questions of visual and textual representation of fish, and pre- and post-Linnean classification and taxonomy. This book also explores the transnational exchange of ichthyological knowledge and items in and outside Europe. Contributors: Cristina Brito, Tobias Bulang, João Paulo S. Cabral, Florike Egmond, Dorothee Fischer, Holger Funk, Dirk Geirnaert, Philippe Glardon, Justin R. Hanisch, Bernardo Jerosch Herold, Rob Lenders, Alan Moss, Doreen Mueller, Johannes Müller, Martien J.P. van Oijen, Pietro Daniel Omodeo, Anne M. Overduin-de Vries, Theodore W. Pietsch, Cynthia Pyle, Marlise Rijks, Paul J. Smith, Ronny Spaans, Robbert Striekwold, Melinda Susanto, Didi van Trijp, Sabina Tsapaeva, and Ching-Ling Wang.
Author : Anna Marie Roos,Gideon Manning
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031097225
This book brings together leading scholars in the history of science, history of universities, intellectual history, and the history of the Royal Society, to honor Professor Mordechai Feingold. The essays collected here reflect the impact Feingold's scholarship has had on a range of fields and address several topics, including: the dynamic pedagogical techniques employed in early modern universities, networks of communication through which scientific knowledge was shared, experimental techniques and knowledge production, the life and times of Isaac Newton, Newton's reception, and the scientific culture of the Royal Society. Modeling the interdisciplinary approaches championed by Feingold as well as the essential role of archival studies, the volume attests to the enduring value of his scholarship and sets a benchmark for future work in the history of science and its allied fields.
Author : Benedetta Borello,Laura Casella
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000992021
This book takes a long-term approach, spanning from the end of the 16th to the 19th century, to explore how men and women in Italy, France, and Spain collected, displayed, and passed down various types of papers. The contributors share a core interest in the relationship between social actors and their paper heritage. The collectors, who come from diverse cultural, social, and gender backgrounds, provide insights into the reasons and processes behind the accumulation, valorisation, and transmission of their paper heritage. Unlike most studies on collecting, this book shifts the focus away from collections and institutions to the owners of the collected objects and their desires for their accumulated papers. This volume covers three centuries and provides insights into the aspirations of collectors and the fate of their papers after transmission. It takes place against the backdrop of major social, political, and cultural changes affecting the Italian peninsula, the Spanish monarchy, and France. The cultural interests and the collector networks often extended beyond Europe, as noted by many of the essays in this volume. Paper Heritage in Italy, France, Spain and Beyond (16th to 19th Centuries) will interest scholars and students of Early Modern and Modern European History across various fields, including social and cultural history, intellectual history, gender history, history of collecting and patronage.
Author : United States. Department of the Interior
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1304 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : Public lands
ISBN : UCSC:32106020211998
Author : United States. Dept. of the Interior
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1448 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015031655494
Author : United States. National Park Service. Rocky Mountain Regional Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : National parks and reserves
ISBN : IND:30000110394651
Author : United States
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1929
Category : Law
ISBN : PURD:32754070445253
Author : United States
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1104 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Law
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030037298678