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Stuffed animals & pickled heads : the culture and evolution of natural history museums Cover Image Book Book

Stuffed animals & pickled heads : the culture and evolution of natural history museums

Asma, Stephen T. (Author).

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  • ISBN: 0195130502 (alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780195130508 (alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: print
    xv, 302 p. : ill ; 25 cm.
  • Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-288).
Formatted Contents Note: Flesh-eating Beetles and the Secret Art of Taxidermy -- Peter the Great's Mysterious Fars: How to Pickle a Human Head and Other Great Achievements of the Scientific Revolution -- Taxonomic Intoxication, Part I: Visualizing the Invisible -- Taxonomic Intoxication, Part II: In Search of the Engine Room -- Exhibiting Evolution: Diversity, Order, and the Construction of Nature -- Evolution and the Roulette Wheel: A Chance Cosmos Rattles Some Bones -- Drama in Diorama: The Confederation of Art and Science.

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      Salter Hahira Library 		508 ASM ( Send Text)
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      Willis L. Miller Library 		508 ASM ( Send Text)
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