HIST 220 Lecture Notes - Carl Linnaeus
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Don"t need a draft in week 13 (last day of lecture) Try to figure out where it comes from, what it"s made of. Purpose and what is its importance/significance in my life. What does it mean to know something about something. Really close examination of a thing/ group of people. Attempting to place data into categories based on physical properties. Since the 17th century, biologists have divided up animal/plant species into groups ex. System naturae developed by carl linnaeus (1735) Would collect items of antiquity/curiosity and display it in a room. Early cabinets contained 3 types of items: artworks, natural specimens, ethnographical artifacts) Over the course of the 17th century, got more organized and systemized. Organized according to taxonomies, albeit not following linnaeus". Increasing tendency to split up ethnographic artifacts from natural ones. Grown to later on, doctors, professors, merchants having them as well. Even people with modest means grew to have these cabinets.
