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To preserve “ natural and human curiosities and rarities ,” included numerous specimens of human and animal fetuses with anatomical anomalies. He issued an order that stillborn children with deformities be sent from all over the country to the imperial collection, to be displayed and studied. He also collected other objects especially related to , and more specifically to mineralogy. He acquired, from a Danzig doctor, a collection of 1195 minerals, which he later supplemented with Russian minerals. In December 1747, a great fire destroyed the collection, leaving only some of the most valuable specimens to be saved. Peter Simon Pallas, scientist and traveler, was appointed director of the collection in 1747, reconstructing the collection. The houses the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of the Russian Academy of Sciences , with a collection of almost 2,000,000 pieces.
Another of the most notable cabinets of curiosities was Wunderkammer . It was acquired for the monastery in 1798, from the inheritance of Cell Phone Number List aron Karel Jan , Czech historian. This collection brings together archaeological discoveries, collections of natural sciences (especially marine animals, but also insects, minerals and wax replicas of fruits), artistic objects in glass and porcelain, craft objects, weapons and models of warships from the 16th century. Its wood library stands out, composed of 68 volumes prepared by Karel de around 1825, each documenting a type of wood. The panels are made of the wood of the corresponding tree, the spine with the title in Latin and German is made of bark with lichen, and inside there are roots, branches, leaves, flowers, fruits, sections of branches and pests. Also notable is a narwhal horn, which was once believed to belong to a unicorn. In the image, the dendrological or library of the Monastery.
The Natural History Museum of the University of Pisa has its origins in the gallery attached to the in Pisa (now the Botanical Garden), created at the end of the 16th century by the will of Ferdinand I de' Medici. In the Museum it is still possible to see several works that appear in inventories from the 17th century. Unlike many of the other collections, the one in Pisa was always linked to the university institution, which made the collection acquire a more rigorous and scientific connotation almost from the beginning. In 1595 Ferdinand I ordered that the various Florentine naturalist collections be taken to the gallery and the following year he formalized the institution with a bull, thus founding one of the first museums in the world. The Wunderkammer of Pisa brings together ichthyological, mineralogical, herpetological, ornithological, malacological or paleontological collections.
Another of the most notable cabinets of curiosities was Wunderkammer . It was acquired for the monastery in 1798, from the inheritance of Cell Phone Number List aron Karel Jan , Czech historian. This collection brings together archaeological discoveries, collections of natural sciences (especially marine animals, but also insects, minerals and wax replicas of fruits), artistic objects in glass and porcelain, craft objects, weapons and models of warships from the 16th century. Its wood library stands out, composed of 68 volumes prepared by Karel de around 1825, each documenting a type of wood. The panels are made of the wood of the corresponding tree, the spine with the title in Latin and German is made of bark with lichen, and inside there are roots, branches, leaves, flowers, fruits, sections of branches and pests. Also notable is a narwhal horn, which was once believed to belong to a unicorn. In the image, the dendrological or library of the Monastery.
The Natural History Museum of the University of Pisa has its origins in the gallery attached to the in Pisa (now the Botanical Garden), created at the end of the 16th century by the will of Ferdinand I de' Medici. In the Museum it is still possible to see several works that appear in inventories from the 17th century. Unlike many of the other collections, the one in Pisa was always linked to the university institution, which made the collection acquire a more rigorous and scientific connotation almost from the beginning. In 1595 Ferdinand I ordered that the various Florentine naturalist collections be taken to the gallery and the following year he formalized the institution with a bull, thus founding one of the first museums in the world. The Wunderkammer of Pisa brings together ichthyological, mineralogical, herpetological, ornithological, malacological or paleontological collections.