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A few that did survive have fallen, figuratively, into the clutches of two of America's most innovative minds: photographer Rosamond Wolff Purcell and paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould. What these collections say about the collectors, and about human beings in general, is the subject of this strangely beautiful and rich compendium. Here are Purcell's wonderfully exotic photographs of teeth and other human artifacts from the collection of Peter the Great; moles, pigs, and dogs from van Heurn's many boxes of perfectly preserved skins; and all manner of preserved life from Rothschild's Birds of Paradise to the fish of Agassiz. Here also is Gould at his best, delighting in the unusual and making connections to our own history and evolution that only the most fertile and whimsical mind could imagine - and that few will be able to resist. This is a book for those with a craving for beauty, knowledge, and a fascination with the unusual.
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This is a combination of art, science and history. The European natural history collections of the 18th and 19th centuries contain bizarre objects, assembled by even stranger people. They include Peter the Great, whose "cabinet" in Petersburg is home to a nightmare collection of animals, embalmed appendages and chimeras. We see Louis Agassiz's fishes in disconcerting close-up, and the mannered baroque collection of Augustino Scilla - Europe's "first geologist". Words and pictures capture the collection of Philip von Siebold, assembled with great difficulty in the closed society of early 19th-century Japan, and of the demented dinosaur hunter Thomas Hawkins, contrasted with Mary of Lyme Regis, "the most important unsung collecting force" in the history of science. And the fossil brain collection of Eugeen Dubois (discoverer of "Homo Erectus") is surreal indeed.
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Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) was the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Geology at Harvard University. He published over twenty books, received the National Book and National Book Critics Circle Awards, and a MacArthur Fellowship.
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- PublisherRadius
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0091753287
- ISBN 13 9780091753283
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages192
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