Author: Sloan, Kim
Title: Enlightenment : discovering the world in the eighteenth century / edited by Kim Sloan, with Andrew Burnett
Description: London : British Museum Press 2003. 1st Edition. Fine cloth copy in a very good. slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and strong. Physical description: 304 pages: illustrations (chiefly color); 28 cm. Contents: pt. I. The 'Universal Museum' -- 1. 'Aimed at universality and belonging to the nation': the Enlightenment and the British Museum / Kim Sloan -- 2. Collectors and commemoration: portrait sculpture and paintings in the British Museum / Aileen Dawson -- 3. 'Most curious. splendid and useful': the King's Library of George III / Graham Jefcoate -- 4. The King's Library and its architectural genesis / Tim Knox -- 5. Ancient glory and modern learning: the sculpture-decorated library / Thorsten Opper -- pt. II. The Natural World -- 6. Challenging the dogma: classifying and describing the natural world / Robert Huxley -- 7. Natural history collectors and their collections: 'simpling macaronis' and instruments of empire / Robert Huxley -- 8. The nature of the earth and the fossil debate / Jill Cook -- 9. Rocks. fossils and the emergence of palaeontology / Jill Cook -- pt. III. The Artificial World -- 10. The ordering of the artifical world: collecting. classification and progress / Luke Syson -- 11. 'The King love medals': the study of coins in Europe and Britain / Andrew Burnett -- 12. Engraved gems: the lost art of antiquity / Judy Rudoe -- 13. Words and pictures: Greek vases and their classification / Lucilla Burn -- 14. Between antiquarianism and experiment: Hans Sloane. George III and collecting science / Silke Ackermann and Jane Wess -- 15. King George III's topographical collection: a Georgian view of Britain and the world / Peter Barber -- pt. IV. Ancient Civilizations: New Interpretations -- 16. Ideas of antiquity: classical and other ancient civilizations in the age of Enlightenment / Ian Jenkins -- 17. The discovery of British antiquity / Jill Cook -- 18. From Persepolis to Babylon and Nineveh: the rediscovery of the ancient Near East / St. John Simpson -- 19. 'The curse of Babel': the Enlightenment and the study of writing / Clive Cheesman -- 20. Sacred history? The difficult subject of religion / Jonathan Williams -- pt. V. Voyages of Discovery -- 21. Venture to the exterior / Brian Durrans -- 22. Romancing the Americas: public expeditions and private research c. 1778-1827 / J.C.H. King -- 23. Irresistible objects: collecting in the Pacific and Australia in the reign of George III / Jennifer Newell -- 24. Trade and learning: the European 'discovery' of the East / Joe Cribb. Jessica Harrison-Hall and Tim Clark -- 25. Africa: in the shadow of the Enlightenment / Nigel Barley -- Chronological table. Subject: British Museum. British Museum Collections History. British Museum History. British Museum King's Library. British Museum; Exhibitions. 18th century. Enlightenment. Intellectual life History. Intellectual life 18th century. Museums. Collectors and Collecting. Antiquities. ISBN: 0714127655.

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