Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane. By James Delbourgo. Allen Lane; 503 pages; £25. To be published in America by Belknap in July; $35. JOINED-UP words and sentences with ...

Collecting the World is composed of a vast collection of facts, dates, and figures sifted and arranged to give meaning to a life and pursuit that seems utterly alien to us.

Henry Nicholls revels in a biography of Enlightenment collector and Royal Society president Hans Sloane. Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane James Delbourgo ...

Collecting The World: The Life And Curiosity Of Hans Sloane HHHH by James Delbourgo Allen Lane, £25 As this meticulously researched biography of Sloane reveals, the third of those is wrong.

‘Collecting the World’ review: Curiosity and collecting were central to science in Hans Sloane’s lifetime, and James Delbourgo does a remarkable job of showing how these practices were bound ...

The idea of the public museum is an “artifact of imperial enlightenment,” writes James Delbourgo in his new book, Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum.

BBC - A History of the World - Object : The Will of Sir Hans SloaneThis is the last will and testament of Sir Hans Sloane, the legendary figure whose incredible collection of objects lead to the ...

The British Museum began in Jamaica. It was there that Sir Hans Sloane (1660–1753) had gone as physician to the island’s new governor, Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle. Sloane was born in ...