Author: Nehemiah GrewPublisher:
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Category : Anatomy, Comparative
Languages : en
Pages : 606
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Musaeum Regalis Societatis
Author: Nehemiah GrewPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anatomy, Comparative
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Musaeum Regalis Societatis Or a Catalogue & Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and Preserved at Gresham College, Made by Nehemjah Grew..., Whereunto is Subjoyned the Comparative Anatomy of Stomachs and Guts...
Author: Nehemiah GrewMusaeum Regalis Societatis: Or, A Catalogue and Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society, and Preserved at Gresham Colledge
Author: Nehemiah GrewPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anatomy, Comparative
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Musaeum Regalis Societatis
Author: Nehemiah GrewPublisher: Kessinger Publishing
ISBN: 9781104195892
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Musaeum Regalis Societatis, Or, A Catalogue & Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and Preserved at Gresham Colledge
Author: Royal Society (Great Britain). MuseumPublisher:
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Category : Anatomy, Comparative
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Musaeum Regalis Societatis. Or a Catalogue and Description of the ... Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society (etc.)
Author: Nehemiah GrewLocke's Essay and the Rhetoric of Science
Author: Peter WalmsleyPublisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838755433
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
This book shows how, in his enormously influential 'Essay concerning Human Understanding' (1689), John Locke embraces the new rhetoric of seventeenth-century natrual philosophy, adopting the strategies of his scientific contemporaries to create a highly original natural history of the human mind. With the help of Locke's notebooks, letters and journals, Peter Walmsley reconstructs Locke's scientific career, including his early work with the chemist Robert Boyle and the physician Thomas Sydenham. He also shows how the 'Essay' embodies in its form and language many of the preoccupations of the science of its day, from the emerging discourses of experimentation and empirical taxonomy to developments in embryology and the history of trades. The result is a new reading of Locke, one that shows both his brilliance as a writer and his originality in turning to science to effect a radical reinvention of the study of the mind.
Cabinets for the Curious
Author: Ken ArnoldPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351953591
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The last few years has, within museums, witnessed nothing short of a revolution. Worried that the very institution was itself in danger of becoming a dusty, forgotten, culturally irrelevant exhibit, vigorous efforts have been made to reshape the museum mission. Fearing that history was coming to be ignored by modern society, many institutions have instead marketed a de-intellectualised heritage, overly relying on computer technology to captivate a contemporary audience. The theme of this work is that we can do much to reassess the rationale that inspires contemporary collections through a study of seventeenth century museums. England's first museums were quite literally wonderful; founded that is on the disciplined application of the faculty of wonder. The type of wonder employed was not that post-Romantic idea of disbelief, but rather an active form of curiosity developed during the Renaissance, particularly by the individuals who set about gathering objects and founding museums to further their enquiries. The argument put forward in this book is that this museological practice of using objects actually to create, as well as disseminate knowledge makes just as much sense today as it did in the seventeenth century and, further, that the best way of reinvigorating contemporary museums, is to return to that form of wonder. By taking such a comparative approach, this book works both as a scholarly historical text, and as an historically informed analysis of the key issues facing today's museums. As such, it will prove essential reading both for historians of collecting and museums, and for anyone interested in the philosophies of modern museum management.
British Pirates and Society, 1680-1730
Author: Margarette LincolnPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317171675
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
This book shows how pirates were portrayed in their own time, in trial reports, popular prints, novels, legal documents, sermons, ballads and newspaper accounts. It examines how attitudes towards them changed with Britain’s growing imperial power, exploring the interface between political ambition and personal greed, between civil liberties and the power of the state. It throws light on contemporary ideals of leadership and masculinity - some pirate voyages qualifying as feats of seamanship and endurance. Unusually, it also gives insights into the domestic life of pirates and investigates the experiences of women whose husbands turned pirate or were captured for piracy. Pirate voyages contributed to British understanding of trans-oceanic navigation, patterns of trade and different peoples in remote parts of the world. This knowledge advanced imperial expansion and British control of trade routes, which helps to explain why contemporary attitudes towards piracy were often ambivalent. This is an engaging study of vested interests and conflicting ideologies. It offers comparisons with our experience of piracy today and shows how the historic representation of pirate behaviour can illuminate other modern preoccupations, including gang culture.
The Museum of the Senses
Author: Constance ClassenPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 147425246X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
Traditionally sight has been the only sense with a ticket to enter the museum. The same is true of histories of art, in which artworks are often presented as purely visual objects. In The Museum of the Senses Constance Classen offers a new way of approaching the history of art through the senses, revealing how people used to handle, smell and even taste collection pieces. Topics range from the tactile power of relics to the sensuous allure of cabinets of curiosities, and from the feel of a Rembrandt to the scent of Monet's garden. The book concludes with a discussion of how contemporary museums are stimulating the senses through interactive and multimedia displays. Classen, a leading authority on the cultural history of the senses, has produced a fascinating study of sensual and emotional responses to artefacts from the middle ages to the present. The Museum of the Senses is an important read for anyone interested in the history of art as well as for students and researchers in cultural studies and museum studies.