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Possessing Nature In 1500 few Europeans considered nature an object worthy of study, yet within fifty years the first museums of natural history had appeared, chiefly in Italy. Vast collections of natural curiosities - including living human dwarves, toad-stones, amish farmer great journal possession and unicorn horns - were gathered by Italian patricians as a means of knowing their world. The museums built around these collections became the center of a scientific culture that over the next century amish farmer great journal possession and a half served as a microcosm of Italian society amish farmer great journal possession and as the crossroads where the old amish farmer great journal possession and new sciences met. In Possessing Nature, Paula Findlen vividly recreates the lost world of late Renaissance amish farmer great journal possession and Baroque Italian museums amish farmer great journal possession and demonstrates its significance in the history of science amish farmer great journal possession and culture. Based on exhaustive research into natural histories, letters, travel journals, memoirs, amish farmer great journal possession and pleas for patronage, Findlen describes collections amish farmer great journal possession and collectors great amish farmer great journal possession and small, beginning with Ulisse Aldrovandi, professor of natural history at the University of Bologna. Aldrovandi, whose museum was known as the eighth wonder of the world, was a great popularizer of collecting among the upper classes. From the universities, Findlen traces the spread of natural history in the seventeenth century to other learned sectors of society: religious orders, scientific societies, amish farmer great journal possession and princely courts. There was, as Findlen shows, no separation between scientific culture amish farmer great journal possession and general political culture in Renaissance amish farmer great journal possession and Baroque Italy. The community of these early naturalists was, in many ways, a mirror of the humanist republic of letters. Archival documents point to the currying of patrons amish farmer great journal possession and the hierarchical nature of the scientific professions, characteristicscommon to the larger world around them. Examining anew the society amish farmer great journal possession and accomplishments of the first collectors of nature, Findlen argues that the accepted distinction between the old Aristotelian, text-based science amish farmer great journal possession and the new empirical science during the period is false. Rather, natura...
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Fantasyland A Wall Street Journal writer spends a season in a fantasy baseball league to explore the inner workings amish farmer great journal possession and contagious passions of one of the country`s most popular pursuits.Every spring, millions of Americans prepare to take part in one of the oddest, most obsessive amish farmer great journal possession and engrossing rituals in the sports pantheon: rotisserie baseball, a fantasy game where armchair fans match wits by building their own teams. Starting with a player draft before the Major League season, contenders spend six months scouring the box scores to see if their handpicked players can outperform the opposition. Its a pastime that threatens to overtake traditional baseball in the passions it generates.In 2004, Sam Walker, a sports columnist for The Wall Street Journal, decided to explore this phenomenon by talking his way into Tout Wars, a private league generally reserved for the nations top experts. Using his baseball contacts amish farmer great journal possession and access to locker rooms, Walker spent a year trying to dredge up information that might give him a competitive edge over his eccentric cast of competitors. But in his quest for victory he also endeavored to settle the great question that divides modern baseball thinkers: Can excellence be predicted by statistics alone or is the human element more important?Together with his crack research team, Sig (a statistician) amish farmer great journal possession and Nando (a baseball savant), Walker finds himself possessed by the game amish farmer great journal possession and determined to win at any expense, spending weeks on the road interacting with his real Major League players amish farmer great journal possession and trying to manage them. We follow his descent into sleeplessness, panic, triumph (temporarily), treachery, amish farmer great journal possession and even consultations with an astrologer as he keeps his ever-blearier eyes on his elusive goal. The result is one of the most entertaining sports books in years amish farmer great journal possession and a matchless look into the heart amish farmer great journal possession and soul of our national pastime. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.
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