Название: Sciences of Antiquity: Romantic Antiquarianism, Natural History, and Knowledge Work (Classical Presences)
Автор: Noah Heringman
Издательство: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199556911
Год: 2013
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 368
Размер: 5,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

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.