Название: Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum
Автор: James Delbourgo
Издательство: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674737334
Год: 2017
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 544
Размер: 14,8 МБ
Язык: Английский
In 1759 the British Museum opened its doors to the general public―the first free national museum in the world. James Delbourgo’s biography of Hans Sloane recounts the story behind its creation, told through the life of a figure with an insatiable ambition to pit universal knowledge against superstition and the means to realize his dream.