Curiosity and enlightenment : collectors and collections from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century / Arthur MacGregor.

New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, [2007], ©2007.

x, 386 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-370) and index.

The museum adumbrated : some models and precursors -- The cabinet of curiosities : concept and realization -- Collecting art -- Museums and the natural world -- Death, anatomy and the museum -- Antiquity in transition -- Museums of science and technology -- The museum comes of age.