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Excerpt from Thresholds: Spring, 1995 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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.