Paula Findlen, Possessing nature: museums, collecting, and scientific culture in early modem Italy, Berkeley and London, University of Califomia Press, 1996, pp xviii, 449, illus., $18.95 (0-525-20508-1).

Ken Arnold

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Paula Findlen, Possessing nature: museums, collecting, and scientific culture in early modem Italy, Berkeley and London, University of Califomia Press, 1996, pp xviii, 449, illus., $18.95 (0-525-20508-1).

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Paula Findlen, Possessing nature: museums, collecting, and scientific culture in early modem Italy, Berkeley and London, University of Califomia Press, 1996, pp xviii, 449, illus., $18.95 (0-525-20508-1).

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