Chapter Seven. The Return Of Peter The Great

Tür:

Kitap Bölümü

Yazar:

L. Kooijmans

Yayın yılı:

2010

Yayıncı:

BRILL

Collections like Ruysch's could be treasured for all sorts of reasons. Not only were they valuable as storehouses of knowledge, status symbols and objects of trade, but they were cherished, above all, as sources of amazement and delight. While Frederik Ruysch was trying to sell his collection in England and Germany, his fellow apothecary Albert Seba was tapping other sources. Like Ruysch and Vincent, fifty-year-old Seba was looking for a buyer for his collection of naturalia through the contacts he had acquired as a trader in medicines. Robert Erskine had spoken to Ruysch about the purchase of his collection and the scientific aspects of his preparations. He had urged Ruysch to reveal his secret, for he wished to know everything Ruysch knew about arterial injection, the preservation of specimens and the embalming of bodies. Keywords: Albert Seba; arterial injection; embalming of bodies; Frederik Ruysch; Robert Erskine

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