Download or read book Collecting the New Rare and Curious written by Philip Rashleigh and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mineral collectors made a significant contribution to the development of mineralogy as a science and the rich variety of specimens found in the South West of England enabled Cornish collectors to play a significant part in this process. This volume contains 168 letters selected from the correspondence of three eighteenth-century Cornishmen - Philip Rashleigh, the Reverend William Gregor, and John Hawkins - with other British and European researchers. It illustrates the motives of collectors and the ways in which improvements in identifying and studying minerals were made. The letters between Rashleigh and his nephew Pole Carew show the initial stage of acquiring and exchanging specimens. Other letters by all three men reveal their contribution to cataloguing and classifying minerals. The Introduction to the volume discusses the archives and letters, and sets out the broader historical and intellectual context in which the three collectors were active. A chronological list of all relevant letters in the three men's archives also provides a unique reference source.

Download or read book Catalogue of a Valuable Collection of Rare Curious and Useful Books and a Collection of Some Historical Topographical Antiquarian Books Published by Messrs Nichols and Son of Parliament Street written by Joseph Lilly and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Bibliotheca Elegantissima Et Selecta A Catalogue of a Collection of Rare Curious and Useful Books Chiefly in Early English Literature in Bindings by Mr F Bedford and Other Binders To which is Added an Appendix Containing a Selection of Rare and Curious Books in Early English Literature from the Libraries of John Mitford and S W Singer Esq and an Assemblage of Illuminated Missals Horae c on Vellum written by Joseph Lilly and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Uses of Curiosity in Early Modern France and Germany written by Neil Kenny and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2004-07-08 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did people argue about curiosity in France, Germany, and elsewhere in Europe between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries, so much more than today? Why was curiosity a fashionable topic in early modern conduct manuals, university dissertations, scientific treatises, sermons, newspapers, novellas, plays, operas, ballets, poems, from Corneille to Diderot, from Johann Valentin Andreae to Gottlieb Spizel? Universities, churches, and other institutions invoked curiosity in order to regulate knowledge or behaviour, to establish who should try to know or do what, and under what circumstances. As well as investigating a crucial episode in the history of knowledge, this study makes a distinctive contribution to historiographical debates about the nature of 'concepts'. Curiosity was constantly reshaped by the uses of it. And yet, strangely, however much people contested what curiosity was, they often agreed that what they were disagreeing about was one and the same thing.

Download or read book Curious Visions of Modernity written by David L. Martin and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haunted by a secret knowledge and a repressed enchantment, Western rationality is not what it seems. Rembrandt's famous painting of an anatomy lesson, the shrunken head of an Australian indigenous leader, an aerial view of Paris from a balloon: all are windows to enchantment, curiosities that illuminate something shadowy and forgotten lurking behind the neat facade of a rational world. In Curious Visions of Modernity, David Martin unpacks a collection of artifacts from the visual and historical archives of modernity, finding in each a slippage of scientific rationality—a repressed heterogeneity within the homogenized structures of post-Enlightenment knowledge. In doing so, he exposes modernity and its visual culture as haunted by precisely those things that rationality sought to expunge from the “enlightened” world: enchantment, magic, and wonderment. Martin traces the genealogies of what he considers three of the most distinct and historically immediate fields of modern visual culture: the collection, the body, and the mapping of spaces. In a narrative resembling the many-drawered curiosity cabinets of the Renaissance rather than the locked glass cases of the modern museum, he shows us a world renewed through the act of collecting the wondrous and aberrant objects of Creation; tortured and broken flesh rising from the dissecting tables of anatomy theaters to stalk the discourses of medical knowledge; and the spilling forth of a pictorializing geometry from the gilt frames of Renaissance panel paintings to venerate a panoptic god. Accounting for the visual disenchantment of modernity, Martin offers a curious vision of its reenchantment.

Download or read book Catalogue of a Most Choice and Important Collection of Rare and Curious Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalogue of the Most Extensive Valuable and Truly Interesting Collection of Curious Books Now Offered by Thomas Thorpe Etc written by Thomas Thorpe (Bookseller, of Bedford Street, Covent Garden.) and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Curiosity and Wonder from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment written by R.J.W. Evans and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Curiosity' and 'wonder' are topics of increasing interest and importance to Renaissance and Enlightenment historians. Conspicuous in a host of disciplines from history of science and technology to history of art, literature, and society, both have assumed a prominent place in studies of the Early Modern period. This volume brings together an international group of scholars to investigate the various manifestations of, and relationships between, 'curiosity' and 'wonder' from the 16th to the 18th centuries. Focused case studies on texts, objects and individuals explore the multifaceted natures of these themes, highlighting the intense fascination and continuing scrutiny to which each has been subjected over three centuries. From instances of curiosity in New World exploration to the natural wonders of 18th-century Italy, Curiosity and Wonder from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment locates its subjects in a broad geographical and disciplinary terrain. Taken together, the essays presented here construct a detailed picture of two complex themes, demonstrating the extent to which both have been transformed and reconstituted, often with dramatic results.

Download or read book The Emergence of the Antique and Curiosity Dealer in Britain 1815 1850 written by Mark Westgarth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rather than the customary focus on the activities of individual collectors, The Emergence of the Antique and Curiosity Dealer in Britain 1815–1850: The Commodification of Historical Objects illuminates the less-studied roles played by dealers in the nineteenthcentury antique and curiosity markets. Set against the recent ‘art market turn’ in scholarly literature, this volume examines the role, activities, agency and influence of antique and curiosity dealers as they emerged in the opening decades of the nineteenth century. This study begins at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, when dealers began their wholesale importations of historical objects; it closes during the 1850s, after which the trade became increasingly specialised, reflecting the rise of historical museums such as the South Kensington Museum (V&A). Focusing on the archive of the early nineteenth-century London dealer John Coleman Isaac (c.1803–1887), as well as drawing on a wide range of other archival and contextual material, Mark Westgarth considers the emergence of the dealer in relation to a broad historical and cultural landscape. The emergence of the antique and curiosity dealer was part of the rapid economic, social, political and cultural change of early nineteenth-century Britain, centred around ideas of antiquarianism, the commercialisation of culture and a distinctive and evolving interest in historical objects. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, histories of collecting, museum and heritage studies and nineteenth-century culture.

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Download or read book The bibliographer s manual of English literature containing an account of rare curious and useful books publ in or relating to Great Britain and Ireland written by William Thomas Lowndes and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalogue of a Very Extensive Curious and Valuable Library of Rare Curious and Important Works in Anglo American Literature written by Puttick and Simpson and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Bibliographer s Manual of English Literature Containing an Account of Rare Curious and Useful Books Published in Or Relating to Great Britain and Ireland from the Invention of Printing and the Prices at which They Have Been Sold in the Present Century written by William Thomas Lowndes and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Complete Book of Australian Mammals written by Ronald Strahan and published by Angus & Robertson Publishers. This book was released on 1984 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers all species of mammals, native and introduced, exclusive of whales, known to have existed in Australia since the arrival of Europeans.