Antiquity and antiquarianism

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Collection, conviction, and contemplation: or, Picturing coins in early modern books, ca. 1550-1700 (2003)
This paper explores the uses of published illustrations of coins in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century antiquarian...
 

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Exemplarity and the use of antiquity in Erasmus (2001)
This paper explores Erasmus’s creative response to the tension between his idealization of antiquity and...
 

History of natural history

The Science of Describing: Natural History in Renaissance Europe (2006)

Out of the diverse traditions of medical humanism, classical philology, and natural philosophy, Renaissance naturalists...