#museum reading

[emilieideas]

Possessing Nature : Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy, Paula Findlen (1994)

Introduction:

“Organizing ideas around objects, naturalists increasingly saw philosophical inquiry as the product of a continuous engagement with material culture. The decision to display the fruits of collection led naturalists gradually to define knowledge as consensual”

[emilieideas]

“Redressing the Balance: Levinus Vincent’s Wonder Theatre of Nature,” Bert van de Roemer (2014)

“a new tendency of ordering began to gain favour”

“More and more the abundance of nature became subject to a mathematical and symmetrical ordering”