Roos, Anna Marie Eleanor (Author)
Keller, Vera A. (Author)
Brepols Publishers
Publication date: 2022
Language: English
Physical Details: 322
This volume analyses how and why members of scholarly societies such as the Royal Society, the Society of Antiquaries of London, and the Leopoldina collected specimens of the natural world, art, and archaeology in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. These scholarly societies, founded before knowledge became subspecialised, had many common members. We focus upon how their exploration of natural philosophy, antiquarianism, and medicine were reflected in collecting practice, the organisation of specimens and how knowledge was classified and disseminated. The overall shift from curiosity cabinets with objects playfully crossing the domains of art and nature, to their well-ordered Enlightenment museums is well known. Collective Wisdom analyses the process through which this transformation occurred, and the role of members of these academies in developing new techniques of classifying and organising objects and new uses of these objects for experimental and pedagogical purposes.
...MoreReview Madeline White (2024) Review of "Collective Wisdom: Collecting in the Early Modern Academy". Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period (pp. 206-208).
Review Aurélien Ruellet (July 2024) Review of "Collective Wisdom: Collecting in the Early Modern Academy". Technology and Culture (pp. 1021-1022).
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