Collecting nature : a history of the herbarium and natural specimens / Clive Aslet, Svante Helmbaek Tirén ; translation from Swedish [of Svante Helmbaek Tirén's text]: Fern Scott Olsson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aslet, Clive, 1955- author.

Helmbaek Tirén, Svante, 1988- author.

Contributor:

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Standardized Title:

Naturaliesamlandet i historien. English

Language:

English

Swedish

Subjects (All):

Natural history--History.

Natural history.

Natural history--Pictorial works.

Biological specimens--Collection and preservation.

Biological specimens.

Biological specimens--Collection and preservation--Sweden.

Botanical specimens--Collection and preservation.

Botanical specimens.

Botanical specimens--Collection and preservation--Sweden.

Herbaria.

Herbaria--Sweden.

Collectors and collecting--Sweden.

Collectors and collecting.

Timm, Gabriel Casper--Natural history collections.

Timm, Gabriel Casper.

Timm, Paul August--Natural history collections.

Timm, Paul August.

Engelsbergs bruk (Ängelsberg, Sweden).

Timmons family.

Sweden.

Genre:

History.

Pictorial works.

Physical Description:

166 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits (some color) ; 31 x 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Manufacture:

Denmark : Print: Narayana Press, 2022.

Place of Publication:

Stockholm, Sweden : Bokförlaget Stolpe, [2022]

Language Note:

Part translated from Swedish.

Summary:

"The history of collecting natural history specimens touches upon many aspects of our past. The fascination with nature was at least as important for its view of humanity as for science. One telling example is the Timm Natural Collection at Engelsberg Ironworks, created by the ironworks proprietor Gabriel Casper Timm and his son Paul August in the nineteenth century. Throughout their lives, they devoted much of their leisure time to collecting plants, insects, minerals and other treasures of nature. Some came from near their home in Västmanland, Sweden, while others were collected from across Scandinavia. Father and son were in close contact with collectors and scientists, and at the same time built up a library consisting of volumes on natural science along with books on spirituality and faith. Ultimately, collecting natural history specimens reflected a kind of wonder about creation. Collecting Nature places the Timm Natural Collection in a larger context so that the reader encounters other collectors, thinkers, and scientists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In the book, a picture is created of how the world of ideas in collecting has developed and continues to influence us even today."-- Publisher's description.

"Having a sense of wonder and admiration for nature is profoundly human and the collecting of natural history objects has been regarded as one of the ways that we can connect with creation and all its mysteries. At the World Heritage Site of Engelsberg Ironworks in Sweden, an unusually well kept natural history collection has been resting in sturdy cabinets since its creation in the middle of the nineteenth century. The collection was created by the then ironworks owner and proprietor Gabriel Casper Timm and his son Paul August, who devoted themselves to collecting plants, insects, minerals and other items from the treasure trove of nature. In this ... illustrated work, the Timm collection is placed in a larger context alongside other collectors, thinkers and scientists from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The book provides us with a rare glimpse of how the ideology and practice of collecting developed, revealing a world of ideas that continue to influence us even today."-- Back cover.

Contents:

(from table of contents) Preface / Kurt Almqvist

The Timm herbarium at Engelsberg in context / Clive Aslet

The Timm family natural history collection at Engelsberg Ironworks / Svante Helmbaek Tirén.

Notes:

"[I]n association with Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit"--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9789189425644

9189425642

OCLC:

1289986782

Publisher Number:

99991365984