Nero and the last stalk of Silphion: collecting extinct nature in early modern Europe
. . Keller V. . Early Sci Med. 2014;19(5):424-47. doi: 10.1163/15733823-00195p03. Abstract Many studies of early modern natural history focus upon observational, empirical techniques. Early moderns also contended with entities which could no longer be observed because they no longer existed. Although it is often assumed that extinction only emerged as a concept in the …
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