The Factual Sensibility<i>The Origins of Museums: The Cabinet of Curiosities in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Europe</i>. Oliver Impey , Arthur MacGregor<i>Tradescant's Rarities: Essays on the Foundation of the Ashmolean Museum, 1683; With a Catalogue of the Surviving Early Collections</i>. Arthur MacGregor<i>The Ashmolean Museum, 1683-1894</i>. R. F. Ovenell

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1988
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79
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3
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452-467
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Lorraine Daston (1988). The Factual Sensibility<i>The Origins of Museums: The Cabinet of Curiosities in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Europe</i>. Oliver Impey , Arthur MacGregor<i>Tradescant's Rarities: Essays on the Foundation of the Ashmolean Museum, 1683; With a Catalogue of the Surviving Early Collections</i>. Arthur MacGregor<i>The Ashmolean Museum, 1683-1894</i>. R. F. Ovenell. Isis , 79 (3) , 452-467. https://doi.org/10.1086/354776

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