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Excerpt from Thresholds: Spring, 1995 <p>Paula Findlen teaches in the History Department and the Program in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy (berke ley: University of California Press, 1994) and other studies of science and culture in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. She has not yet become tired of thinking about museums. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.