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Magical Tome
- First published
- 1999
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- ISBN
- 9781978805903
The poetics of natural history
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About this book
"The Poetics of Natural History is about the daydreams of early American naturalists (from 1730 to 1868) and the collections they created around these dreams. Christoph Irmscher explores how, through the acts of organizing physical artifacts and reflecting upon their collections in writings and images, naturalists from John Bartram to Louis Agassiz were making sense of themselves and their world. These collections allowed them, in a way, to collect themselves."--BOOK JACKET.
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