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001 2013427632
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008 130821s2013 enkaf b 001 0 eng d
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020 $a9780199556915 (hardcover)
020 $a0199556911 (hardcover)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn794036033
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050 00 $aZ1023$b.H627 2013
082 04 $a002.09
100 1 $aHeringman, Noah.
245 10 $aSciences of antiquity :$bRomantic antiquarianism, natural history, and knowledge work /$cNoah Heringman.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aOxford, United Kingdom :$bOxford University Press,$c2013.
300 $axii, 345 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations (some color) ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aClassical presences
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 317-333) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: Knowledge Work and the Proliferation of Antiquities -- NATURAL HISTORY AND ANTIQUITY -- 1. Beyond Patronage: Knowledge, Work, Professional Ambition, and the Competing Narratives of the Endeavour Voyage -- 2. Campi Phlegraei and the Neapolitan Pursuit of 'Most Remote Antiquity' -- GREEK VASES AND DEEP TIME IN NAPLES -- 3. Baron d'Hancarville, Sir William Hamilton, and the Collaborative Production of Antiquities -- 4. The Natural History of Art: Customs and Manners in The Collection of Etruscan, Greek, and Roman Antiquities -- 5. 'The History, Written by Themselves': Ancient Religion, Deep Time, and Embedded History -- ENGLAND'S RUINS -- Interlude: Classical to Gothic -- 6. Antiquarianism and the Science of Preservation: Jacob Schnebbelie, Richard Gough, and Gothic Antiquity -- 7. 'The Whole of This Coast is Composed of Ruins': Thomas Webster's Fieldwork on the Isle of Wight.
520 3 $aIn the course of the eighteenth century, discoveries ranging from Tahiti to Pompeii initiated a scientific turn in the study of the past. Seeking a formal language to display these new findings, Romantic-era plate books presented a wide array of objects as ancient relics. This proliferation of antiquities, a product of old affinities between natural history and antiquarianism, provided new material for the formation of archaeology, geology, anthropology, and other modern disciplines. This title traces the production of five scholarly plate books on subjects of major literary and scientific interest at the time: South Pacific voyaging, Mount Vesuvius, ancient Greek vases, monuments in English cathedrals, and the geology of southeast England. Focusing on illustrators, fieldworkers, and ghostwriters associated with this type of scholarly publication, Heringman explores how the expertise acquired by these largely self-educated intellectuals precipitated a major shift in the way research was done - from patronage to professionalism.
650 0 $aIllustrated books$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aScientific illustration$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aNatural history$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aHistoriography$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xIntellectual life$y18th century.
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1402/2013427632-d.html
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1402/2013427632-t.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1402/2013427632-b.html