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The Collector's Voice: Critical Readings in the Practice of Collecting. Volume 2. Early Voices

Secondary Title (i.e. Proceedings Title):Perspectives on collecting Periodical Title: Publication Type:Book, Whole Authors:Pearce,Susan M. and Ken Arnold
Editors: Publisher:Ashgate Place of Publication:Aldershot ; Burlington, VT Publication Date:2000 Alternate Date (i.e. Conference Date): Volume: Issue: Start Page: End Page: Abstract: Descriptors/Keywords:Collectors and collecting
History
Collectors and collecting Europe
Philosophy
Social aspects
ISBN:1859284175; 1859284183; 1859284191; 1859284205 URL:http://books.google.ca/books?id=En67Et3-rzsC&pg=PA21&lpg=PA21&dq=%22walter+cope%22+collector&source=bl&ots=0ZDd27UWRe&sig=1m2vc8qFsOl2Cyuw_Vkpke4uOa4&hl=en&ei=-Vy4TsCLD8Ph0QGqlIXSBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
Documents in Print Item: No Documents Listed in Print Item Attached People: Visitor - Platter, Thomas (24 Jul 1574-1628)
Authority - early modern - Bacon, Francis (1561-1626)
Collector (minor) - Aldrovandi, Ulisse (1522-1605)
Authority - early modern - Peacham, Henry (1578-c.1644)
Collector (minor) - Howard, Thomas (Arundel) (1585-1646)
Collector (minor) - Evelyn, John (1620-1706)
Collector (minor) - Charles I of England (1600-1649)
Authority - early modern - Wilkins, John (1614-1672)
Authority - early modern - Plot, Robert (1640 [bap.]-1696)
Authority - early modern - Hooke, Robert (18 Jul 1635-3 Mar 1703)
Authority - early modern - Grew, Nehemiah (1641-1712)
Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - Grew, Nehemiah (1641-1712)
Collector (minor) - Ashmole, Elias (1617-1692)
Collector (minor) - Sloane, Hans (1660-1753)
Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - Uffenbach, Zacharias Conrad von (22 Feb 1683-6 Jan 1734)
Visitor - Uffenbach, Zacharias Conrad von (22 Feb 1683-6 Jan 1734)
Mentions or references - Colwall, Daniel (-1690)
Mentions or references - Winthrop, Adam (-)
Subject of/in a document - Bargrave, John (1610-1680)
Mentioned or referenced by - Cope, Walter (c.1553-30 Jul 1614)
Mentions or references - Woodward, John (1 May 1665 or 1668-25 Apr 1728)
Mentions or references - Winthrop, John (1606-1676)
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Annotation: Ch. 4 Francis Bacon advises how to set... p. 17

Ch. 5 The German traveller Thomas Plat... p. 21

Ch. 6 Ulisse Aldrovandi collects insects p. 26

Ch. 7 Henry Peachams advice to gentlem... p. 29

Ch. 8 The Earl of Arundel views the Ki... p. 33

Ch. 9 John Evelyn records in his diary... p. 38

Ch. 10 The collection of King Charles I... p. 42

Ch. 11 England’s first substantial museum p. 50

Ch. 12 John Bargrave gives an account o... p. 57

Ch. 13 Scientific voices p. 61

Ch. 14 John Wilkins experiments with a ... p. 63

Ch. 15 John Winthrop reports upon some ... p. 67

Ch. 16 Robert Plot surveys the natural ... p. 72

Ch. 17 James Petiver describes how to p... p. 77

Ch. 18 A show elephant becomes an anato... p. 82

Ch. 19 Robert Hooke muses on language a... p. 87

Ch. 20 Nehemiah Grew writes the 1681 ca... p. 94

Ch. 21 Elias Ashmole organises the Ashm... p. 100

Ch. 22 Hans Sloane describes a China Ca... p. 106

Ch. 23 Zacharias Conrad von Uffenback d... p. 110

Ch. 24 John Woodward sets out a classif... p. 114