![]() ![]() ![]() Drawing on extensive archives of visitors books, letters, travel journals, memoirs, and pleas for patronage, Paula Findlen reconstructs the lost social world of Renaissance and Baroque museums. Italian patricians, their curiosity fueled by new voyages of exploration and the humanist rediscovery of nature, created vast collections as a means of knowing the world and used this knowledge to their greater glory. Yet fifty years later the first museums of natural history had appeared in Italy, dedicated to the marvels of nature. About the Book As a study of late Renaissance naturalists, the science they practised, and the fit between that science and late Renaissance court life, the book has no rival.-Anthony Grafton, Princeton University Book Synopsis In 1500 few Europeans regarded nature as a subject worthy of inquiry. ![]()
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