Victoria Pickering
Biographic Data
| ID | 1081189 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Victoria Pickering |
| GIVEN NAMES | Victoria |
| FAMILY NAME | Pickering |
| SIGNATURE | PICKERING V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen Mary University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8365-0353 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sealed and concealed: The uses of Hans Sloane’s collection of ‘Vegetable Substances’
Between the late seventeenth and mid-eighteenth centuries, the physician Hans Sloane (1660–1753) formed a botanical collection, which he termed the ‘Vegetable Substances’. It comprised over 12,500 specimens and corresponding catalogue descriptions. These bits of plants were sealed into small glass boxes so that viewers could examine them closely without damaging them. While Sloane never described the use of this collection, it formed part of his …
Digital Humanities in the Memory Institution: The Challenges of Encoding Sir Hans Sloane’s Early Modern Catalogues of His Collections
Catalogues are the core documents of museum structure and meaning. Yet no significant computational analysis has been made of how catalogues from the early modern period are constructed or of the way their structure and content relate to the world from which collections are assembled. The Leverhulme-funded ‘Enlightenment Architectures: Sir Hans Sloane’s catalogues of his collections’ (2016–19), a collaboration between the British Museum and Unive…
From Books to Bezoars: Sir Hans Sloane and His Collections
From Books to Bezoars: Sir Hans Sloane and His Collections
Digital Humanities in the Memory Institution: The Challenges of Encoding Sir Hans Sloane’s Early Modern Catalogues of His Collections
Catalogues are the core documents of museum structure and meaning. Yet no significant computational analysis has been made of how catalogues from the early modern period are constructed or of the way their structure and content relate to the world from which collections are assembled. The Leverhulme-funded ‘Enlightenment Architectures: Sir Hans Sloane’s catalogues of his collections’ (2016–19), a collaboration between the British Museum and Unive…
Sealed and concealed: The uses of Hans Sloane’s collection of ‘Vegetable Substances’
Between the late seventeenth and mid-eighteenth centuries, the physician Hans Sloane (1660–1753) formed a botanical collection, which he termed the ‘Vegetable Substances’. It comprised over 12,500 specimens and corresponding catalogue descriptions. These bits of plants were sealed into small glass boxes so that viewers could examine them closely without damaging them. While Sloane never described the use of this collection, it formed part of his …
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