Natural Curiosities 🔍
Charles, Victoria Sirrocco-Parkstone International, Mega Square, 2011
English [en] · PDF · 53.9MB · 2011 · 📘 Book (non-fiction) · 🚀/lgli/lgrs/nexusstc/zlib · Save
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Reflecting their owner's taste and serving as an impressive exhibition space for visitors, cabinets of curiosities were a place of interest in the houses of the wealthy in the 16th and 17th centuries. Displaying rare vegetable and animal species and fossils, these cabinets were always dedicated to science and knowledge. By collecting uncommon and beautiful objects in nature, rich noblemen were able to build a microcosm expressing the diversity of God's creation. Read more...
Abstract: Reflecting their owner's taste and serving as an impressive exhibition space for visitors, cabinets of curiosities were a place of interest in the houses of the wealthy in the 16th and 17th centuries. Displaying rare vegetable and animal species and fossils, these cabinets were always dedicated to science and knowledge. By collecting uncommon and beautiful objects in nature, rich noblemen were able to build a microcosm expressing the diversity of God's creation
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lgrsnf/F:\!upload\_books\Parkstone - Mega Square - Natural Curiosities (Parkstone International 2011).pdf
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nexusstc/Natural Curiosities/2ff9ab7070a06585236bedf98e4c8bd9.pdf
Alternative author
Alfred Russel Wallace
Alternative author
Victoria Charles
Alternative publisher
Sirrocco Publishing Ltd
Alternative publisher
Parkstone Press Ltd
Alternative edition
Confidential Concepts, Inc., New York, USA, 2011
Alternative edition
United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom
Alternative edition
1. Auflage, New York, 2011
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lg2475157
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Alternative description
Content: Alfred Russel Wallace On the Law Which Has Regulated the Introduction of New Species (S20: 1855)
On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type (S43: 1858)
Index.
date open sourced
2020-02-15
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