Her vivid account reveals how the scientific revolution grew from the constant mediation between the old forms of knowledge and the new. First published in 2004.Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) - German Jesuit, occultist, polymath - was one of most curious figures in the history of science. Paula Findlen teaches history at Stanford University and is the author of Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern. Findlen argues convincingly that natural history as a discipline blurred the border between the ancients and the moderns, between collecting in order to recover ancient wisdom and the development of new textual and experimental scholarship.

She follows the new study of natural history as it moved out of the universities and into sixteenth- and seventeenth-century scientific societies, religious orders, and princely courts. Selecciona el departamento donde deseas realizar tu búsqueda. 9780520205086: Findlen, Paula: Libros Omitir e ir al contenido. Italian patricians, their curiosity fueled by new voyages of exploration and the humanist rediscovery of nature, created vast collections as a means of knowing the world and used this knowledge to their greater glory.ĭrawing on extensive archives of visitors' books, letters, travel journals, memoirs, and pleas for patronage, Paula Findlen reconstructs the lost social world of Renaissance and Baroque museums. : Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting. Yet fifty years later the first museums of natural history had appeared in Italy, dedicated to the marvels of nature. In 1500 few Europeans regarded nature as a subject worthy of inquiry.

Possessing Nature by Paula Findlen