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Today's perception of science as a secular profession was developed in the Victorian period, the same time that the natural history museum was invented. The architecture of British natural history museums reveals the complex definitions of nature in the Nineteenth Century, raising many questions: what is nature; how is nature defined; how can nature best be presented to diverse audiences? Natural knowledge was locally-produced; this assertion is proven here through careful social historical accounts of the buildings, their displays, and their reception. By embracing contradictory concepts of nature (from nature as resource to be capitalised by the empire, to nature as the second book of God), Nature's Museums allows the buildings themselves to act as a guide to the Victorians' understanding of the natural world.
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Carla Yanni, Rutgers University
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"Nature's Museums.... is a major contribution to our understanding of the history of public architeture, scientific practice, and the cultural life of the Victorian era."
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- PublisherAthlone Pr
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0485004054
- ISBN 13 9780485004052
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages240
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