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Cabinets of Curiosities
Patrick Mauries
Cabinets of Curiosities
Patrick Mauries
Traces the history of cabinets of curiosities, from their first appearance in the inventories and engravings commissioned by Renaissance nobles such as the Medici or the Hapsburgs, via those of the Dane Ole Wurm and the Italian polymath Athanasius Kircher, to the serious 17th- and 18th-century scientists Elias Ashmole and Levinas Vincent.
256 pages, 272 illustrations, 139 in colour
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | September 12, 2011 |
ISBN13 | 9780500515945 |
Publishers | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
Pages | 256 |
Dimensions | 232 × 312 × 30 mm · 1.76 kg |
Language | English |
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