Today's perception of science as a secular profession was developed in the Victorian period, the same time that the natural history museum was invented. The architecture of British natural history museums reveals the complex definitions of nature in the Nineteenth Century, raising many questions: what is nature; how is nature defined; how can nature best be presented to diverse audiences? Natural knowledge was locally-produced; this assertion is proven here through careful social historical accounts of the buildings, their ...
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Today's perception of science as a secular profession was developed in the Victorian period, the same time that the natural history museum was invented. The architecture of British natural history museums reveals the complex definitions of nature in the Nineteenth Century, raising many questions: what is nature; how is nature defined; how can nature best be presented to diverse audiences? Natural knowledge was locally-produced; this assertion is proven here through careful social historical accounts of the buildings, their displays, and their reception. By embracing contradictory concepts of nature (from nature as resource to be capitalised by the empire, to nature as the second book of God), Nature's Museums allows the buildings themselves to act as a guide to the Victorians' understanding of the natural world.
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First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 4to. pp xvi, 199. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Copiously illustrated in black and white throughout. In Nature's Museums, Yanni brings together the history of architecture and history of science in an engaging study of how the Victorians approached the housing and display of scientific artefacts. ISBN: 0801863260 Fine in slightly used, very good dust jacket.
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