Using a variety of methods to gather and classify their burgeoning knowledge of the world, these pioneering studies of nature and man became the foundations for our modern understanding of the world and gave birth to countless new disciples - from palaeontology, archaeology and ethnography to the history of art. This book charts man's voyage of intellectual discovery by permitting the collectors and their collections to speak for their century, just as the books on the shelves of the original King's Library once did.
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Kim Sloan is an Assistant Keeper in the Department of Prints & Drawings in the British Museum and lead curator of the new Enlightenment Gallery in the King's Library. The other contributors are drawn from The British Museum, British Library, Science Museum and Natural History Museum.
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Anbieter: MW Books, New York, NY, USA
1st Edition. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 304 pages: illustrations (chiefly color); 28 cm. Contents: pt. I. The 'Universal Museum' -- 1. 'Aimed at universality and belonging to the nation': the Enlightenment and the British Museum / Kim Sloan -- 2. Collectors and commemoration: portrait sculpture and paintings in the British Museum / Aileen Dawson -- 3. 'Most curious, splendid and useful': the King's Library of George III / Graham Jefcoate -- 4. The King's Library and its architectural genesis / Tim Knox -- 5. Ancient glory and modern learning: the sculpture-decorated library / Thorsten Opper -- pt. II. The Natural World -- 6. Challenging the dogma: classifying and describing the natural world / Robert Huxley -- 7. Natural history collectors and their collections: 'simpling macaronis' and instruments of empire / Robert Huxley -- 8. The nature of the earth and the fossil debate / Jill Cook -- 9. Rocks, fossils and the emergence of palaeontology / Jill Cook -- pt. III. The Artificial World -- 10. The ordering of the artifical world: collecting, classification and progress / Luke Syson -- 11. 'The King love medals': the study of coins in Europe and Britain / Andrew Burnett -- 12. Engraved gems: the lost art of antiquity / Judy Rudoe -- 13. Words and pictures: Greek vases and their classification / Lucilla Burn -- 14. Between antiquarianism and experiment: Hans Sloane, George III and collecting science / Silke Ackermann and Jane Wess -- 15. King George III's topographical collection: a Georgian view of Britain and the world / Peter Barber -- pt. IV. Ancient Civilizations: New Interpretations -- 16. Ideas of antiquity: classical and other ancient civilizations in the age of Enlightenment / Ian Jenkins -- 17. The discovery of British antiquity / Jill Cook -- 18. From Persepolis to Babylon and Nineveh: the rediscovery of the ancient Near East / St. John Simpson -- 19. 'The curse of Babel': the Enlightenment and the study of writing / Clive Cheesman -- 20. Sacred history? The difficult subject of religion / Jonathan Williams -- pt. V. Voyages of Discovery -- 21. Venture to the exterior / Brian Durrans -- 22. Romancing the Americas: public expeditions and private research c. 1778-1827 / J.C.H. King -- 23. Irresistible objects: collecting in the Pacific and Australia in the reign of George III / Jennifer Newell -- 24. Trade and learning: the European 'discovery' of the East / Joe Cribb, Jessica Harrison-Hall and Tim Clark -- 25. Africa: in the shadow of the Enlightenment / Nigel Barley -- Chronological table. Subject: British Museum. British Museum Collections History. British Museum History. British Museum King's Library. British Museum; Exhibitions. 18th century. Enlightenment. Intellectual life History. Intellectual life 18th century. Museums. Collectors and Collecting. Antiquities. 3 Kg. Artikel-Nr. 330358
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1st edition, hardback, 4to, 304pp, numerous illustrations, clean and tight, no inscriptions, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper, ISBN: 0714127655I. Artikel-Nr. 788437
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. Qto., 304 pages, illustrated in both colour, and in b/w. Unused, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Size: Qto. Book. Artikel-Nr. 083706
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Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Published on the opening of the BM Enlightenment gallery on the old King's Library. A nice production. pp304, illus. DW in archival sleeve. Artikel-Nr. 010156
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