The Courtiers' Anatomists: Animals and Humans in Louis XIV's Paris.

rom the perspective even of stay-at-home European naturalists in the seventeenth century, the world kept getting bigger as increasing animal, vegetable, and mineral evidence of its breadth and variety poured into metropolitan centers. At the same time, the technology of the microscope and the virtuo...

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Main Author: Ritvo, Harriet (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Humanities. History Section (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press, 2018-06-13T19:00:29Z.
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