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EBOOK Infinity of Things:How Sir Henry Wellcome Collected the World
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780191623233
EAN: D67E6E2FEB
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Stron: 368
Data wydania: 2009
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An Infinity of Things tells the story of one of the largest private collections        ever created, and the life of the man behind it. Wellcome planned a great museum        filled with treasures from all corners of the globe, charting the history of human        health from prehistory to the present day. The breadth of his vision was matched        only by the depth of his pockets.During the opening decades of the twentieth century        he acquired a collection so large that later generations of staff took to describing        its contents by the ton. But Wellcome's museum was never finished, and his        collection was still stored in vast warehouses when he died, unseen and incomplete.          Today, after decades of work by his successors, artefacts from the collection can be        seen in museums and libraries throughout the world.Demonstrating what can happen        when a collector's aspirations are left unconstrained by wealth, Frances Larson        explores Wellcome's life through his possessions, revealing the many tensions in his        character: between his talents as a businessman and his desire for scholarly        recognition; his curiosity and his perfectionism; and his philanthropic aspirations        and his drive for personal glory.

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