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...

 

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...