Collecting The World Av James Delbourgo

Collecting The World Av James Delbourgo

Hans Sloane was the greatest collector of his time, and one of the greatest of all time. His name is familiar today through the London streets and squares named after him, but the man himself, and his achievements, are almost forgotten.Born in the north of Ireland, Sloane made his fortune as a phy......
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<p>Hans Sloane was the greatest collector of his time, and one of the greatest of all time. His name is familiar today through the London streets and squares named after him, but the man himself, and his achievements, are almost forgotten.<br><br>Born in the north of Ireland, Sloane made his fortune as a physician to London''s wealthiest residents. In 1687 he travelled to Jamaica, then at the heart of Britain''s commercial empire, to survey its natural history, and later organised a network of correspondents who sent him curiosities from across the world. He became one of the eighteenth century''s preeminent natural historians and assembled an astonishing collection of specimens, artefacts and oddities - the most famous curiosity cabinet of the age. Shortly after his death, Sloane''s vast collection was then acquired - as he had hoped - by the nation. It became the nucleus of the world''s first national public museum, the British Museum.<br><br>This is the first biography of Sloane in
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Hans Sloane was the greatest collector of his time, and one of the greatest of all time. His name is familiar today through the London streets and squares named after him, but the man himself, and his achievements, are almost forgotten. Born in the north of Ireland, Sloane made his fortune as a physician to London's wealthiest residents.In 1687 he travelled to Jamaica, then at the heart of Britain's commercial empire, to survey its natural history, and later organised a network of correspondents who sent him curiosities from across the world. He became one of the eighteenth century's preeminent natural historians and assembled an astonishing collection of specimens, artefacts and oddities - the most famous curiosity cabinet of the age. Shortly after his death, Sloane's vast collection was then acquired - as he had hoped - by the nation.It became the nucleus of the world's first national public museum, the British Museum. This is the first biography of Sloane in over sixty years and the first based on his surviving collections. Early modern science and collecting are shown to be global endeavours intertwined with empire and slavery but which nonetheless produced one of the great public institutions of the Enlightenment, as the cabinet of curiosities gave way to the encyclopaedic museum.Collecting the World describes this pivotal moment in the emergence of modern knowledge, and brings this totemic figure back to life.

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Oppdag Samlingene i Collecting The World Av James Delbourgo

Utforsk den fascinerende historien om Hans Sloane, en av de mest bemerkelsesverdige samlerne i vår historie. Dette mesterverket gir leserne en dypere forståelse av tidens vitenskap og curiositeter, og hvordan Sloanes utrolige samling la grunnlaget for British Museum. Gjennom denne boken vil du få innblikk i hvordan naturhistorie og etnografi ble samlet fra fjerne steder, fra Jamaica til Irland, og hvordan Sloane knyttet bånd til en global verden av samlinger.

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  • Forfatter: James Delbourgo
  • Format: Paperback
  • Sider: 416
  • Utgivelsesår: 2023
  • ISBN: 978-1-5009-0889-5

Hvorfor Velge Collecting The World?

Du vil ikke bare lese om Sloane, men oppleve den forbløffende reisen han la ut på. Boken konteksterer hvordan sammlinger i sin essens er knyttet til imperialisme og slaveri, samtidig som den viser hvordan disse historiene samlet seg i en av opplysningstidens mest betydningsfulle institusjoner. Ved å dykke ned i hans arv, får du også innsikt i hvordan kuriositetskabinett utviklet seg til encyklopedisk museum, et symbol på viten og kunnskap.

En Uunnværlig Lesning for Historie- elskere

Enten du er en historieentusiast eller en profesjonell forsker, er Collecting The World Av James Delbourgo en uvurderlig ressurs. Med en grundig utforskning av Sloanes liv og arbeid, vil denne boken gi deg verktøyene til å forstå kompleksiteten i tidens vitenskap og kultur.

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