Collecting the world : Hans Sloane and the origins of the British Museum /
In 1759, the British Museum opened its doors to the general public, the first free national museum in the world. James Delbourgo's biography of Hans Sloane recounts the story behind its creation, told through the life of a figure with an insatiable ambition to pit universal knowledge against su...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2017.
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