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Sciences of antiquity : romantic antiquarianism, natural history, and knowledge work /

In the course of the eighteenth century, discoveries ranging from Tahiti to Pompeii initiated a scientific turn in the study of the past. Seeking a formal language to display these new findings, Romantic-era plate books presented a wide array of objects as ancient relics. This proliferation of antiq...

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Main Authors: Heringman, Noah
Corporate Authors: Oxford University Press.
Published: Oxford University Press,
Publisher Address: Oxford, United Kingdom :
Publication Dates: 2013.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Edition: First edition.
Series: Classical presences
Subjects:
Illustrated books > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Scientific illustration > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Natural history > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Historiography > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Rezeptionsforschung.
Antike.
Great Britain > Intellectual life > 18th century.
Online Access: http://www.iresearchbook.cn/f/ebook/detail?id=94dbb0370a8347438843097ada8486cb
Summary: In the course of the eighteenth century, discoveries ranging from Tahiti to Pompeii initiated a scientific turn in the study of the past. Seeking a formal language to display these new findings, Romantic-era plate books presented a wide array of objects as ancient relics. This proliferation of antiquities, a product of old affinities between natural history and antiquarianism, provided new material for the formation of archaeology, geology, anthropology, and other modern disciplines. This title traces the production of five scholarly plate books on subjects of major literary and scientific interest at the time: South Pacific voyaging, Mount Vesuvius, ancient Greek vases, monuments in English cathedrals, and the geology of southeast England. Focusing on illustrators, fieldworkers, and ghostwriters associated with this type of scholarly publication, Heringman explores how the expertise acquired by these largely self-educated intellectuals precipitated a major shift in the way research was done - from patronage to professionalism.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (345 pages), 8 unnumbered pages) of plates) : illustrations (some color).
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages [317]-333) and index.
ISBN: 9780191626067
9780199556915
CLC: K561.4
Contents: Introduction: Knowledge Work and the Proliferation of Antiquities -- NATURAL HISTORY AND ANTIQUITY -- 1. Beyond Patronage: Knowledge, Work, Professional Ambition, and the Competing Narratives of the Endeavour Voyage -- 2. Campi Phlegraei and the Neapolitan Pursuit of 'Most Remote Antiquity' -- GREEK VASES AND DEEP TIME IN NAPLES -- 3. Baron d'Hancarville, Sir William Hamilton, and the Collaborative Production of Antiquities -- 4. The Natural History of Art: Customs and Manners in The Collection of Etruscan, Greek, and Roman Antiquities -- 5. 'The History, Written by Themselves': Ancient Religion, Deep Time, and Embedded History -- ENGLAND'S RUINS -- Interlude: Classical to Gothic -- 6. Antiquarianism and the Science of Preservation: Jacob Schnebbelie, Richard Gough, and Gothic Antiquity -- 7. 'The Whole of This Coast is Composed of Ruins': Thomas Webster's Fieldwork on the Isle of Wight.

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