Article ID: CBB001023535

Seriality in the Making: The Osborn-Knight Restorations of Evolutionary History (2010)

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Sommer, Marianne (Author)


History of Science
Volume: 48
Pages: 461--482


Publication Date: 2010
Edition Details: Part of a special issue, “Seriality and Scientific Objects in the Nineteenth Century”
Language: English

The article focuses on the 28 murals created by author and illustrator Charles R. Knight (1874--1953) for the Chicago, Illinois Field Museum during the 1920s. The author focuses on the influence Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857--1935), curator of vertebrate palaeontology and later president of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, had upon Knight. Osborn referred to the murals as the Osborn-Knight restorations. Other subjects include evolutionary history, educational goals of museum exhibitions, and the relationship between science and art.

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Description Focuses on the murals created for the Chicago, Illinois Field Museum during the 1920s.


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Article Hopwood, Nick; Schaffer, Simon; Secord, Jim (2010) Seriality and Scientific Objects in the Nineteenth Century. History of Science (p. 251). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Brinkman, Paul David
Rainger, Ronald
Ceccarelli, David
Davidson, Jane Pierce
Homchick, Julie
Kjaergaard, Peter C.
Journals
Earth Sciences History: Journal of the History of the Earth Sciences Society
Archives of Natural History
Asclepio: Archivo Iberoamericano de Historia de la Medicina
Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Environmental History
Publishers
Cornell University
University of Minnesota
Ashgate
Indiana University Press
University of Alabama Press
Concepts
Paleontology
Evolution
Museums
Science and religion
Dinosaurs
Controversies and disputes
People
Osborn, Henry Fairfield
Marsh, Othniel Charles
Simpson, George Gaylord
Burroughs, Edgar Rice
Cope, Edward Drinker
Doob, Joseph L.
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
Places
United States
India
China
Mongolia
Russia
Connecticut (U.S.)
Institutions
American Museum of Natural History, New York
Field Museum of Natural History
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris
Natural History Museum (London, England)
Peabody Museum, Salem, Mass.
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