Collective wisdom : collecting in the early modern academy
Collective Wisdom' analyses the connections between early modern scholarly societies and to what extent these networks shaped the formation of early museums and the categorisation of knowledge.00This volume analyses how and why members of scholarly societies such as the Royal Society, the Socie...
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Turnhout : Brepols,
[2022]
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Techne
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Techne |
| Schlagworte: | Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century History of science Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 SCIENCE / History Akademie der Wissenschaften Aufklärung Europa mehr... |
| Umfang: | 323 Seiten |
| Zusammenfassung: | Collective Wisdom' analyses the connections between early modern scholarly societies and to what extent these networks shaped the formation of early museums and the categorisation of knowledge.00This volume analyses how and why members of scholarly societies such as the Royal Society, the Society of Antiquaries of London, and the Leopoldina collected specimens of the natural world, art, and archaeology in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. These scholarly societies, founded before knowledge became subspecialised, had many common members. We focus upon how their exploration of natural philosophy, antiquarianism, and medicine were reflected in collecting practice, the organisation of specimens and how knowledge was classified and disseminated. The overall shift from curiosity cabinets with objects playfully crossing the domains of art and nature, to their well-ordered Enlightenment museums is well known. 'Collective Wisdom' analyses the process through which this transformation occurred, and the role of members of these academies in developing new techniques of classifying and organising objects and new uses of these objects for experimental and pedagogical purposes |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturangaben |
| Beschreibung: | 323 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9782503588063 2503588069 9782503588070 2503588077 |