HISA04H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Peale Museum
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Week 5, lecture 5 hisa04 themes in world history thurs 10th oct 2012. Contained 3 types of objects: natualia (products of nature. , arteficialia (or artefacta, the products of man. , scientifica (the testaments of the human ability to know nature. Role of unicorn horn in wunderkammer = makes it seem like mythical creatures existed. Precisely these object in someway dew the categories that you could take for granted in analysing the world in a scholarly view. Some of these objects demonstrated high degree of human prowess. One of most common objects, repeatedly see, is coral. Coral = one of the typical objects because it was unclear to many if it was a vegetable or mineral. Preserved a lot of animals and objects that could represent the new world of their colonies, and brought it back to england. Manatee tail would have been what columbus mistook as a mermaid.