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Collecting the world : Hans Sloane and the origins of the British Museum /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Delbourgo, James, 1972- (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Sloane, Hans, > Sir, > 1660-1753.
British Museum > History.
Sloane, Hans, > Sir, > 1660-1753
British Museum
Physicians > England > London > Biography.
Cabinets of curiosities > England > London.
Collectors and collecting > Great Britain > Biography.
Cabinets d'amateurs > Angleterre > Londres.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical
Cabinets of curiosities
Collectors and collecting
Physicians
England > London
Great Britain
art collecting
natural history
botany
scientific classification
human curiosities
global scientific knowledge
Royal Society
Atlantic slave trade
Natural History of Jamaica
visual knowledge
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The original Sloane Ranger
  • Part One. Empire of curiosities. Transplantation ; Island of curiosities ; Keeping the species from being lost
  • Part Two. Assembling the world. Becoming Hans Sloane ; The world comes to Bloomsbury ; Putting the world in order ; Creating the public's museum.