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REVIEW Angelica Groom Exotic Animals in the Art and Culture of the Medici Court in Florence BRILL / SERIES: Rulers & Elites, Volume: 16 Publication Date: 22 October 2018 ISBN: 978-90-04-37113-2 DOI:... more
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      History of Natural History, Natural History, History of Florence, Animals in Culture
Resumo: Este trabalho é parte da dissertação de mestrado que estou elaborando para o Programa de Pós-Graduação Interunidades em Museologia da Universidade de São Paulo. Trata-se de um trabalho sobre o resgate da história de um museu por... more
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      History of Natural History, History of Science, History of Geology, History of Collections
Per Federico Cesi, fondatore dell’Accademia dei Lincei, il «Natural desiderio di sapere» corrisponde a un modo plurale di pensare la conoscenza e il suo ruolo sociale e politico di fronte all’incertezza innescata dall’allargamento del... more
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      History of Natural History, History of Anatomy, Republic of Letters (Early Modern History), Italian Baroque art
Esta tese analisa a viagem do naturalista britânico Henry Walter Bates ao Brasil, entre 1848 e 1859, enfocando suas relações com os habitantes locais e observando de que forma estes colaboraram para o êxito da expedição. Durante os seus... more
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      History, History of Natural History, History of Science, Indigenous Knowledge
Chapter 10 [in:] Treasure Hunting? The Collectors and the Collecting of Indonesian Artefacts. (Reimar Schefold and Han Vermeulen, eds.) Leiden: Research School of Asian, African, and Amerindian Studies (CNWS), University of Leiden.... more
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      Anthropology, Southeast Asian Studies, Indonesian History, History of Natural History
Annemarie Jordan Gschwend, Chapter 3

The Emperor’s Exotic and New World Animals: Hans Khevenhüller and Habsburg Menageries in Vienna and Prague
Pages: 76–103
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      History of Natural History, Natural History, Animals & Society studies, Animals in Culture
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      Museum Studies, Materialism, Natural history collections
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      History of Natural History, History of Science, Natural history collections, European Royal Households
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      Italian Renaissance Art, Animals in Culture, Medieval Bestiary, Animals
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      Italian Renaissance Art, Animals in Culture, Etnography, Medieval Bestiary
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      Conservation, Natural history collections, Gestión De Riesgos, Colections
The Role of Extinction in Evolution. Extinktion ‹ bezeichnet heutzutage das Ende evolutionärer Stammlinien durch den Tod aller Nachkommen. Nach Charles Darwin handelt sich um einen Prozess, der allmählich und andauernd in der Geschichte... more
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      History of Paleontology, History of Natural History, History of Science, Evolution
Natural history museums preserve a considerable, yet often unacknowledged part of the world's colonial heritage. Their identity, collections, exhibitions and, importantly, much of their research activities are based on objects which... more
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      History of Museums, Decolonization, Natural history collections, Politics of Natural History
Based on research undertaken for WAAS and Museums Worcestershire's Lost Landscapes project, this talk traces the history of our understanding of the archaeology, geology, and natural history of the Ice Age, and presents the fascinating... more
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      History of Natural History, History of Museums, Natural history collections, Archaeological Collections Management
A 12-metre long juvenile fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus (Linnaeus 1758)) skeleton, named Driggsby, was installed in the Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery in January 2018. The specimen was washed up on the West Cumbrian coast in... more
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      Museum Studies, Osteology, Museums and Exhibition Design, Natural history collections
Abstract Helmis Natural History Museum is located in Zakynthos, in the village of Agia Marina Fagia, only twenty minutes distance from the centre of the city of Zakynthos. The enlargement of the private collection of Panagiotis Helmis, a... more
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      Heritage Conservation, Museology, Natural history collections
This pathbreaking and stunningly illustrated book recovers the intersections between natural history, politics, art, and philosophy in the late sixteenth-century Low Countries. Insect Artifice explores the moment when the seismic forces... more
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      Zoology, Entomology, Early Modern History, History of Natural History
Interposed between the natural world in all its diversity and the edited form in which we encounter it in literature, imagery and the museum, lie the multiple practices of the naturalists in selecting, recording and preserving the... more
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      History of Natural History, Natural History, Animals & Society studies, Animals in Culture
De nombreuses et nombreux scientifiques travaillent au quotidien, bénévolement ou non, pour collecter ces informations naturalistes. Elles sont par la suite stockées dans les musées ou dans les associations, attendant qu’un spécialiste... more
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      Museum Studies, History of Museums, Natural history collections, Conservation of Natural History Collections
Article de l'ouvrage Penser/classer les collections des Sociétés savantes.
Actes des journées d'étude organisées par la Société des Arts de Genève. Palais de l'Athénée, 24 et 25 novembre 2016. Edition Slatkine
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      Histoire Des Sciences, Natural history collections, Nantes, Conservation of Natural History Collections