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The cabinet of curiosities in sixteenth and seventeenthcentury europe. They were also known by various names such as cabinet of wonder, and in german kunstkammer artroom or wunderkammer wonderroom. Cabinets of curiosities by patrick mauries penguin random house. Collecting and understanding the wonders of the natural world. His collection, kept in his castle in prague, was one the largest ever assembled and included a huge number of clocks and scientific instruments. Such were the cabinets of curiosities of the seventeenth century, the last period of history when. A cabinet of curiosities was an encyclopedic collection in renaissance europe of types of objects whose categorical boundaries were yet to be defined. Pdf a cabinet of roman curiosities download full pdf. Exactly the book for every young explorer who loves finding stuff in nature and bringing it home. Unlike other national collections at the time, it didnt belong to a king or to the church and was freely open to the public.
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