Knowledge in circulation: letters, books and journals

Knowledge in circulation: letters, books and journals

—Books, letters and the first scientific journals were the material media for the circulation of knowledge among the European and colonial elite participating in the Republic of Letters.—   Although not immediately and, of course, without replacing or...
Ulisse Aldrovandi, collector

Ulisse Aldrovandi, collector

—How the obsession of a collector contributed to the creation of network for the exchange and circulation of scientific knowledge on nature and its productions.—   Ulisse Aldrovandi was one of the best-known naturalists of the second half of the...
Nature in the cabinet

Nature in the cabinet

—The passion for collecting wonders of nature led to the creation of an essential space for understanding the science of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: the cabinet of curiosities.—   The passion for collecting that was unleashed in the...