Collecting nature / edited by Andrea Gáldy and Sylvia Heudecker.

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Papers presented at an international conference, organized by the working group Collecting and Display, held at Schwabenakademie Irsee, Germany, in May 2013.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-210) and index.

Introduction / Arthur MacGregor -- Chapter abstracts -- Collecting nature within nature : animal inclusions in amber in early modern collections / Rachel King -- Collecting zoological rarities at the Medici court : real, stuffed and depicted beasts as cultural signs / Angelica Groom -- Wenzel Jamnitzer's mortar : life casting and court experimentalism in the 16th century / Virginie Spenlé -- Ornithology and collecting in the Dutch golden age : the collecting of exotica and captured specimens / Joy Kearney -- The birds in Mark Catesby's Natural history : collected, depicted, commodified / Shepard Krech III -- A princely plant collector in Renaissance Germany / Miriam Hall Kirch -- Collecting the painted Netherlands : the art collection of Archduke Ernest of Austria in Brussels / Ivo Raband -- The correspondence of Henry Oldenburg and circulation of objects at the early Royal Society of London, 1660-1677 / Iordan Avramov -- Carl Linnaeus and the natural history collections of Lovisa Ulrika of Sweden at Drottningholm Palace / Anne Harbers -- The early modern library as a site for collecting and display of scientific instruments / Inga Elmqvist Söderlund -- Epilogue and outlook: Collecting nature/archiving Eden / Dornith Doherty.

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