The Dark Side of Collecting — Early Modern Chemistry, Humanism and Classification

摘要

From twenty-first-century home design to the classically influenced paintings owned by Charles, I, the history of collecting seems to be everywhere these days.The history of science has certainly not been immune to this trend and, in addition to strectching the traditional scientific historiographies popular during the early twentieth century, his approach has offered great insights into the motivations and assumptions that contributed to the assemblage of todyay's most well-known scientific, medical and technological museums.