Notes:
"Essays are based on conference papers given at the Collecting Nature conference held at Schwabenakademie Irsee in May 2013"--Acknowledgements.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-210) and index.
Contents:
Collecting nature within nature: animal inclusions in amber in early modern collections / Rachel King --
Collecting zoological rarities at the Medici Court: real, stuffed and depicted beasts as cultural signs / Angelica Groom --
Wenzel Jamnitzer's mortar: life casting and court experimentalism in the 16th century / Virginia Spenlé --
Ornithology and collecting in the Dutch golden age: the collecting of exotica and captured specimens / Joy Kearney --
The birds in Mark Catesby's Natural History: collected, depicted, commodified / Shepard Krech III --
A princely plant collector in Renaissance Germany / Miriam Hall Kirch --
Collecting the painted Netherlands: the art collection of Archduke Ernest of Austria in Brussels / Ivo Raband --
The correspondence of Henry Oldenburg and circulation of objects at the early Royal Society of London, 1660-1677 / Iordan Avramov --
Carl Linnaeus and the natural history collections of Lovisa Ulrika of Sweden at Drottningholm Palace / Anne Harbers --
The early modern library as a site for collecting and display of scientific instruments / Inga Elmqvist Söderlund --
Collecting nature, archiving Eden / Dornith Doherty.
