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Niematerialne przedmioty w ukrytych wnętrzach: Sir Thomasa Browna "Musaeum Clausum" a wczesnonowożytna konwencja muzealnego katalogowania

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Lebek K.

ER(R)GO: Teoria – Literatura – Kultura

2012

issue 1-2(24-25) interiory/eksteriory (pod gościnną redakcją Zbigniewa Białasa i Pawła Jędrzejki)

10-23

Immaterial Objects in Hidden Interiors: Sir Thomas Browne’s Musaeum Clausum and the Early Modern Cataloguing Convention The article reads the short, jocular text by Sir Thomas Browne Musaeum Clausum or Bibliotheca Abscondita (1684) in the context of its dialogue with the cataloguing convention in the seventeenth-century culture of curiosity. The first part of “Immaterial Objects” discusses the cultural significance of museum catalogues in their double function: firstly, to represent the collected objects by endowing them with “a story” and fashioning them as curiosities and, secondly, to represent the social network build around the collection. Two printed catalogues serve as examples here: Robert Hubert’s catalogue of his own private collection printed in 1664 and the catalogue of the Repository of the Royal Society, Musaeum Regalis Societatis, written by Nehemiah Grew and published in 1681. The second part of the article shows how Browne in Musaeum Clausum worked from within this convention of cataloguing undermining, and thus exposing, its principles in order to reflect (auto)ironically on the culture of collecting to which he belonged. Such a reading of Browne’s text also helps to reveal the changes in textual attention given to curious objects in seventeenth-century England.

Osobliwości natury a metoda: filozofia naturalna wobec wyjątku siedemnastowiecznej Anglii

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Lebek K.

ER(R)GO: Teoria – Literatura – Kultura

2014

issue 1(28) konteksty ekokrytyki

49-60

Curiosities and Method: Natural Philosophy and Exceptionality in Seventeenth-Century England. The article is concerned with the philosophical function of curiosities in Sir Francis Bacon’s thought, especially his new logic. It takes as its starting point two critiques Bacon launched in his writings, first, of epistemological capabilities of the human mind and, second, of the heretofore methods of studying nature at universities (scholasticism with its uses of the syllogism) and the renaissance court (natural histories with their uses of the emblem). As a separate category of objects and phenomena, curiosities were central for Bacon’s new inductive method as correctives for the flawed mind and thus as regulatory means for inductive interpretation. Such treatment puts curiosities in a paradoxical position of both the object of study and a vital element of the method itself.

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Niematerialne przedmioty w ukrytych wnętrzach: Sir Thomasa Browna "Musaeum Clausum" a wczesnonowożytna konwencja muzealnego katalogowania

Osobliwości natury a metoda: filozofia naturalna wobec wyjątku siedemnastowiecznej Anglii