My book review of Anna Marie Roos’s Web of nature: Martin Lister (1639–1712), the first arachnologist (Leiden: Brill, 2011) appeared in the journal Archives of Natural History in April 2013.
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My essay, “The Terrors of Keeping House: Amanda Hamilton’s The Life of Perished Things,” accompanied Hamilton’s exhibition at the Olson Gallery at Bethel University (St. Paul, Minnesota) in January 2013. The essay was also included in the exhibition brochure (PDF here: NeriTerrorsOfKeepingHouse).
More of Amanda Hamilton’s work can be seen here.
Boise State University’s Winter 2013 issue of Explore magazine includes a story on The Insect and the Image.
Thanks to Carla Nappi for this podcast interview about The Insect and the Image on the New Books in Science, Technology, and Society site.
My essay on sketches and notes on silkworms in a 1635 copy of Mercator’s atlas appears in “The Mystery of the Silkworm,” co-authored with Danielle Skeehan, for the John Carter Brown Library’s online series, I Found it at the JCB.
Review of my book The Insect and the Image:
Paula Findlen
Renaissance Quarterly
Vol. 65, No. 2 (Summer 2012), pp. 566-567
The Insect and the Image: Visualizing Nature in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700.
University of Minnesota Press, 2011
“Cultivating Interiors: Philadelphia, China, and the Natural World,” in Knowing Nature: Art and Science in Philadelphia, 1740 to 1840. Edited by Amy R.W. Meyers. With the assistance of Lisa L. Ford.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012.
Janice Neri 