Paula Findlen

13 books

Athanasius Kircher: The Last Man Who Knew Everything by Athanasius Kircher, Paula Findlen, Mary Huismann

Athanasius Kircher: The Last Man Who Knew Everything

Athanasius Kircher, Paula Findlen, Mary Huismann

480 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science informative medium-paced
The Contest for Knowledge: Debates Over Women's Learning in Eighteenth-Century Italy by Maria Gaetana Agnesi

The Contest for Knowledge: Debates Over Women's Learning in Eighteenth-Century Italy

Maria Gaetana Agnesi

208 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction education history challenging informative slow-paced
Italian Renaissance Readings by Paula Findlen

Italian Renaissance Readings

Paula Findlen

368 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction history reference adventurous informative medium-paced
Merchants and Marvels: Commerce, Science, and Art in Early Modern Europe: Commerce and the Representation of Nature in Early Modern Europe by Pamela Smith, Paula Findlen

Merchants and Marvels: Commerce, Science, and Art in Early Modern Europe: Commerce and the Representation of Nature in Early Modern Europe

Pamela Smith, Paula Findlen

448 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
Objects and Their Histories, 1500-1800 by Paula Findlen

Objects and Their Histories, 1500-1800

Paula Findlen

416 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
Possessing Nature, Volume 20: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy by Paula Findlen

Possessing Nature, Volume 20: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy

Studies on the History of Society and Culture

Paula Findlen

449 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history nature challenging informative medium-paced
Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy by Paula Findlen

Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy

Paula Findlen

449 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative medium-paced
Birds, Other Animals and Natural Curiosities by Henrietta McBurney, Arthur MacGregor, Paula Findlen

Birds, Other Animals and Natural Curiosities

Paper Museum of Cassiano Dal Pozzo. Series B: Natural Histor

Henrietta McBurney, Arthur MacGregor, Paula Findlen

864 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction art history medium-paced
Empires of Knowledge: Scientific Networks in the Early Modern World by Paula Findlen
Empires of Knowledge: Scientific Networks in the Early Modern World
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Paula Findlen

Empires of Knowledge: Scientific Networks in the Early Modern World

Paula Findlen

412 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative medium-paced
Florence After the Medici: Tuscan Enlightenment, 1737-1790 by

Florence After the Medici: Tuscan Enlightenment, 1737-1790

Routledge Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of

344 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced