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Surekha Davies 

is a writer, speaker, historian, and monster consultant, and the author of Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps and Monsters (Cambridge University Press, 2016). She was a Folger Mellon Long-term Fellow for 2017-18.
Collecting the world in seventeenth-century London
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Collecting the world in seventeenth-century London

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Guest post by Surekha Davies  From at least the sixteenth century, overseas artifacts found their way into European princely and scholarly collections. There they were catalogued, analyzed, and displayed alongside natural and artificial curiosities from classical cameos to blowfish. I am…