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Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy
- George G. Herrick, P. Findlen
- History, Biology
- 1994
In 1500 few Europeans regarded nature as a subject worthy of inquiry. Yet fifty years later the first museums of natural history had appeared in Italy, dedicated to the marvels of nature. Italian… Expand
Controlling the Experiment: Rhetoric, Court Patronage and the Experimental Method of Francesco Redi
- P. Findlen
- Political Science, Medicine
- History of science; an annual review of…
- 1 March 1993
In the illustration (Figure 1) adorning the 1671 Latin edition of the Experiments on the generation of insects (1668) by the Tuscan court naturalist Francesco Redi (1626-97), nature is represented… Expand
Athanasius Kircher : The Last Man Who Knew Everything
- P. Findlen
- Art
- 2 August 2004
Introduction: Athanasius Kircher and His World Section I: The Art of Being Kircher Chapter One: Eugenio Lo Sardo, "Kircher's Rome: A Way to Understand the Celeberrimus Museum Kircherianum" Chapter… Expand
Jokes of nature and jokes of knowledge: the playfulness of scientific discourse in early modern Europe.
- P. Findlen
- Art, Medicine
- Renaissance quarterly
- 1990
tory, and to a certain extent science in general, rediscovered its capacity for playfulness in the form of the scientific joke. By scientific joke, I mean the lusus naturae, or joke of nature, and… Expand
Historical Research in a Digital Age: Reflections from the Mapping the Republic of Letters ProjectHistorical Research in a Digital Age
- D. Edelstein, P. Findlen, Giovanna Ceserani, C. Winterer, Nicole Coleman
- History
- 1 April 2017
Between carnival and lent: the scientific revolution at the margins of culture.
- P. Findlen
- History, Medicine
- Configurations
- 1 May 1998
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