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Possessing Nature

Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy

By: Paula Findlen

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Possessing Nature

Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy

By: Paula Findlen

As a study of late Renaissance naturalists, the science they practised, and the fit between that science and late Renaissance court life, the book has no rival."—Anthony Grafton, Princeton University

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Possessing Nature

Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy

By: Paula Findlen

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Possessing Nature

Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy

By: Paula Findlen

In 1500 few Europeans regarded nature as a subject worthy of inquiry. Yet fifty years later the first museums of natural history had appeared in Italy, dedicated to the marvels of nature. Italian patricians, their curiosity fueled by new voyages of exploration and the humanist rediscovery of nature, created vast collections as a means of knowing the world and used this knowledge to their greater glory. Drawing on extensive archives of visitors' books, letters, travel journals, memoirs, and pleas for patronage, Paula Findlen reconstructs the lost social world of Renaissance and Baroque museums. She follows the new study of natural history as it moved out of the universities and into sixteenth- and seventeenth-century scientific societies, religious orders, and princely courts. Findlen argues convincingly that natural history as a discipline blurred the border between the ancients and the moderns, between collecting in order to recover ancient wisdom and the development of new textual and experimental scholarship. Her vivid account reveals how the scientific revolution grew from the constant mediation between the old forms of knowledge and the new.

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0520917782

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Italy’s Eighteenth Century

Gender and Culture in the Age of the Grand Tour

By: Paula Findlen,Wendy Wassyng Roworth,Catherine M. Sama

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Italy’s Eighteenth Century

Gender and Culture in the Age of the Grand Tour

By: Paula Findlen,Wendy Wassyng Roworth,Catherine M. Sama

In the age of the Grand Tour, foreigners flocked to Italy to gawk at its ruins and paintings, enjoy its salons and cafés, attend the opera, and revel in their own discovery of its past. But they also marveled at the people they saw, both male and female. In an era in which castrati were "rock stars," men served women as cicisbei, and dandified Englishmen became macaroni, Italy was perceived to be a place where men became women. The great publicity surrounding female poets, journalists, artists, anatomists, and scientists, and the visible roles for such women in salons, academies, and universities in many Italian cities also made visitors wonder whether women had become men. Such images, of course, were stereotypes, but they were nonetheless grounded in a reality that was unique to the Italian peninsula. This volume illuminates the social and cultural landscape of eighteenth-century Italy by exploring how questions of gender in music, art, literature, science, and medicine shaped perceptions of Italy in the age of the Grand Tour.

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Stanford University Press

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0804759049

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Compound Remedies

Galenic Pharmacy from the Ancient Mediterranean to New Spain

By: Paula S. DeVos

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Compound Remedies

Galenic Pharmacy from the Ancient Mediterranean to New Spain

By: Paula S. DeVos

Compound Remedies examines the equipment, books, and remedies of colonial Mexico City’s Herrera pharmacy—natural substances with known healing powers that formed part of the basis for modern-day healing traditions and home remedies in Mexico. Paula S. De Vos traces the evolution of the Galenic pharmaceutical tradition from its foundations in ancient Greece to the physician-philosophers of medieval Islamic empires and the Latin West and eventually through the Spanish Empire to Mexico, offering a global history of the transmission of these materials, knowledges, and techniques. Her detailed inventory of the Herrera pharmacy reveals the many layers of this tradition and how it developed over centuries, providing new perspectives and insight into the development of Western science and medicine: its varied origins, its engagement with and inclusion of multiple knowledge traditions, the ways in which these traditions moved and circulated in relation to imperialism, and its long-term continuities and dramatic transformations. De Vos ultimately reveals the great significance of pharmacy, and of artisanal pursuits more generally, as a cornerstone of ancient, medieval, and early modern epistemologies and philosophies of nature.

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University of Pittsburgh Press

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0822987945

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Feminism and Christian Tradition

An Annotated Bibliography and Critical Introduction to the Literature

By: Mary-Paula Walsh

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Feminism and Christian Tradition

An Annotated Bibliography and Critical Introduction to the Literature

By: Mary-Paula Walsh

This annotated bibliography, a volume in the Greenwood series, Bibliographies and Indexes in Religious Studies, provides access to the numerous writings, from the 1960s through the 1990s, on feminism and Christian tradition. Major feminist theologians and sociologists are represented. As a guide to further research, this cross-disciplinary approach presents themes and issues in both a historical and a topical framework. An extensive overview of feminism in relation to the women's movement, women's studies, sociology and American religion introduces the literature and provides a historical context for the nearly one thousand entries that follow. Cross-referenced throughout, the literature is presented in six thematic categories that include introductory and background materials, feminism and the development of feminist theology, topical literatures in feminist theology, feminism and womanist theology, religious leadership of women, and responses and recent developments. Separate author, subject, and title indexes complete the volume.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313371318

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Race, Class, and Gender in the United States

By: Paula S. Rothenberg

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Race, Class, and Gender in the United States

By: Paula S. Rothenberg

This [book] undertakes the study of issues of race, gender, and sexuality within the context of class. -Pref.

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804

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Macmillan

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0716761483

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Leonardo's Library

The World of a Renaissance Reader

By: Paula Findlen,J. G. Amato,Veronica S.-R. Shi,Alexandria R. Tsagaris,Carlo Vecce

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Leonardo's Library

The World of a Renaissance Reader

By: Paula Findlen,J. G. Amato,Veronica S.-R. Shi,Alexandria R. Tsagaris,Carlo Vecce

Illustrated catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition "Leonardo's Library: The World of a Renaissance Reader," Stanford University Libraries, Green Library, May 2 - October 13, 2019.

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0911221638

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Writing about Lives in Science

(Auto)Biography, Gender, and Genre

By: Paola Govoni,Zelda Alice Franceschi

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Writing about Lives in Science

(Auto)Biography, Gender, and Genre

By: Paola Govoni,Zelda Alice Franceschi

Following discussions on scientific biography carried out over the past few decades, this book proposes a kaleidoscopic survey of the uses of biography as a tool to understand science and its context. It offers food for thought on the role played by the gender of the biographer and the biographee in the process of writing. To provide orientation in such a challenging field, some of the authors have accepted to write about their own professional experience while reflecting on the case studies they have been working on. Focusing on (auto)biography may help us to build bridges between different approaches to men and women's lives in science. The authors belong to a variety of academic and professional fields, including the history of science, anthropology, literary studies, and science journalism. The period covered spans from 1732, when Laura Bassi was the first woman to get a tenured professorship of physics, to 2009, when Elizabeth H. Blackburn and Carol W. Greider were the first women's team to have won a Nobel Prize in science.

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V&R Unipress

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3847002635

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Paula Horn Kotis

By: Paula Horn Kotis,Michael Carroll,David Davis,Provincetown Art Association & Museum,Christine McCarthy

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Paula Horn Kotis

By: Paula Horn Kotis,Michael Carroll,David Davis,Provincetown Art Association & Museum,Christine McCarthy

Paula Horn Kotis, a professional photographer, worked with novelists and jazz greats and her work has appeared in Mademoiselle, Ebony, Arts, Vogue, Evergreen Review and U.S. Camera.

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