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8 works

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    The paper museum of the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, c. 1725-1760 : introduction and interpretation / edited by Renée E. Kistemaker [and others].

    | Date: 2005
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    Cuerpo abierto : ciencia, enseñanza y coleccionismo andaluces en Cuba en el siglo XIX / Armando García González.

    | Armando García González | Date: 2010
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    The origins of natural science in America : the essays of George Brown Goode / edited and with an introduction by Sally Gregory Kohlstedt.

    | George Brown Goode | Date: [1991]
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    Possessing nature : museums, collecting, and scientific culture in early modern Italy / Paula Findlen.

    | Paula Findlen | Date: [1994]
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    The stranger and the statesman : James Smithson, John Quincy Adams, and the making of America's greatest museum, The Smithsonian / Nina Burleigh.

    | Nina Burleigh | Date: [2003]
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