#levinus vincent

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(vía Vincent, Levinus (1715) Wondertooneel der natuur -Tome 2- 0298 - Category:Wondertooneel der Nature - Wikimedia Commons)

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Levinus Vincent – Scientist of the Day

Levinus Vincent, a Dutch cloth merchant and collector, died Nov. 8, 1727, at the age of about 69; his birth date is not recorded.  

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A selection of plates from Levinus Vincent’s 1719 Elenchus tabularum, pinacothecarum, atque nonnullorum cimeliorum, in gazophylacio.

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Levinus Vincent. Wondertoonel der Nature, Cabinet of Curiousities. 1715.

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Butterflies, beetles & flies arranged in fabric-like patterns, as found in the curiosity cabinets of the Dutch collector Levinus Vincent, subject of our latest essay. More here: http://buff.ly/XDe3Po

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Levinus Vincent, Wondertooneel der Nature [Wunderkammern in Holland]; A Cabinet of Curiosities (1706-1715), The University of Strasbourg, Alsace, France.

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Illustration of Dutch damask merchant Levinus Vincent's cabinet of curiosities (aka 'wunderkammer' or 'rariteitenkabinet'.) The visitor book for his cabinet included at least 3,500 entries, including Peter the Great. Bibliodyssey had a nice post on Dutch wunderkammer a few years ago which includes more images of Vincent's collections, as well as those of fellow Dutch collector Albertus Seba.

From: Levinus Vincent's Elenchus tabularum, pinacothecarum, atque nonnullorum cimeliorum (1719)

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Vincent, Levinus (1715) Wondertooneel der natuur [Tome 1] 0030 frontispiece 

The collection obsession of Early Modern Europe, that saw people stocking cabinets of curiosities ('wunderkammer' or'rariteitenkabinet') with obscure and exotic trinkets and specimens from the worlds of 'artificialia' and 'naturalia', emerged in Holland under a local profile of influences.

Levinus Vincent (1658, Amsterdam - 8 November 1727, Haarlem) was a rich Dutch damask merchant . He collected naturalia (shells, dry and wet preparations, and insects) and artificialia - (ethnography, paintings and drawings of flowers). He turned the passion of Jan Swammerdam for insects into one of the most fashionable activieties of late seventeenth-century Amsterdam, preserving and displaying great quantities of insects in new ways.

Levinus Vincent aimed at the non-Latin-speaking public, printing the catalogue of his collection in both Dutch and French - Wondertooneel der Nature (Wonder Theater of Nature), giving details of all the objects on display. This catalogue sold for three guilder plus a tip or entrance fee of two guilder. He had fixed hours for its visitors. His visitor book (from 1705 to 1737) includes at least 3,500 entries, including Peter the Great.