‘There is not one single thing that resembles this one.’ Writing human monsters in late eighteenth-century Spain

The article discusses how a malformed set of twins turned into a museum object at the late eighteenth-century el Real Gabinete de Historia Natural in Madrid. Foregrounding the practices through which the twins transformed, it is made clear how museum objects result from de-centered processes. Two d...

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Main Author: Lise Camilla Ruud
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies 2014-06-01
Series:Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies
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Online Access:http://www.nordicsts.org/index.php/njsts/article/view/1201408/Ruud