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Sciences of Antiquity Romantic Antiquarianism, Natural History, and Knowledge Work (Classical Presences)
Author: Noah Heringman
Year: 2013
Number of pages: 368
Format: PDF
File size: 5,3 MB
Language: ENG

In the course of the eighteenth century, discoveries ranging from Tahiti to Pompeii initiated a scientific turn in the study of the past. Seeking a formal language to display these new findings, Romantic-era plate books presented a wide array of objects as ancient relics. This proliferation of antiquities, a product of old affinities between natural history and antiquarianism, provided new material for the formation of archaeology, geology, anthropology, and other modern disciplines.

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