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Documenting Natural History in Prussia, 1770-1850
Author: Anne MacKinney Series: Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
How Paper Tools Transformed the Infrastructure of Modern Research in Prussia at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
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How Paper Tools Transformed the Infrastructure of Modern Research in Prussia at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
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A new addition to the University of Pittsburgh Press's Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century series.
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Today, our interactions with museum exhibits are mediated through labels, catalogs, archival records, and endless reams of correspondence. In Nature on Paper, Anne Greenwood MacKinney offers readers a captivating and masterful guided tour of natural history in nineteenth-century Berlin to explain how these mundane paper technologies came to play such a key role in the modern museum experience.--Daniel Margocsy, University of Cambridge
About the Author
Anne Greenwood MacKinney is a historian of science and museums. Her research on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century cultures of natural history and collecting is based on extensive practical experience working in museums, including the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, the Centrum für Naturkunde in Hamburg, and the Goethe-Nationalmuseum in Weimar.
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