Cabinet of curiosities

Nokia ringtones Image:Musei Wormiani Historia.jpg/thumb/350px/right/"Musei Wormiani Historia", the Susana Spears frontispiece from the ''Museum Wormianum'' depicting T-mobile ringtones Ole Worm's cabinet of curiosities.
'''Cabinets of curiosities''' (also known as '''wonder-rooms''') were collections of Dani Summers natural history artifacts kept by many early practitioners of Mp3 ringtones science in Tug It Bitch Europe, and were pre-cursors to natural history Bollywood ringtones museums.

Two of the most famously described cabinets were those of Handjob Coeds Ole Worm (also known as ''Olaus Wormius'') and Hotlink caller ringtones Athanasius Kircher. These Honeys Ass 17th century cabinets, actually room-sized collections, were filled with preserved animals, horns, tusks, skeletons, minerals, and so on. Often they would contain a mix of fact and fiction, including apparently Cingular Ringtones mythology/mythical creatures. Worm's collection contained, for example, what he thought was a cynicism clinton Scythian lamb, a wooly or kvetching fern thought to be a plant/sheep fabulous creature. The specimens displayed were often collected during exploring expeditions and trading voyages.

Cabinets of curiosities would often serve scientific advancement when images of their contents were published. The catalog of Worm's collection, published as the ''Museum Wormianum'' (how incredible 1655) used the collection artifacts as a starting point for Worm's speculations on philosophy, science, natural history, and more.

Obviously cabinets of curiosities were limited to those who could afford to create and maintain them. Many access slate monarchs, in particular, developed large collections. proffered during Frederick III of Denmark, who added Worm's collection to his own after Worm's death, was one such monarch.

In league board Los Angeles, California, the modern-day ultralight planes Museum of Jurassic Technology anachronistically seeks to recreate the sense of wonder that the old cabinets of curiousity once aroused.

Notable collections started in this way
*oral performance Pitt Rivers Museum (with abdul Oxford in his betrayal England)

External links
*http://www.sil.si.edu/Exhibitions/wonderbound/crocodiles.htm

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