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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. Name inside, moderate jacket wear ; Studies On The History Of Society And Culture. Seller Inventory # 1000137565
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Hardcover in publisher's dust-jacket. 449 pages. Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with drawings and engravings. First edition, first printing with full number line. A social, political and intellectual history of the revitalized rise of the discipline of 'natural science' in Renaissance Italy as an amalgam of Aristotelian text-based science and an emerging empirical method of study. No previous ownership marks. A clean, tight, fresh and unmarked copy. Dust-jacket protected by acetate covers. Near fine in a near fine dust-jacket. Seller Inventory # 020915
Book Description hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust jacket shows some light shelf wear. Pages have some sticky notes throughout as well as some pencil notes, checks and other marks. Seller Inventory # mon0000015240
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good. 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. '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 Very nice clean, tight copy free of any marks. Slight dust stains on text edges. Seller Inventory # 244469
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book measures 23.5x16.cm. xvii,[1],449,[1]pp. Bound in original publishers red boards, black spine, gilt lettering. Binding in very good clean firm condition. Dust jacket lightly rubbed on edges. Jacket in good clean condition. Internally, pages clean throughout. A very nice clean copy. Size: 8vo. Seller Inventory # 014084
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good. book. Seller Inventory # D7S9-1-M-0520073347-3