Renaissance Period (1400-1600)

• Cabinets used interpretation, esoteric knowledge, memory techniques (places and images) to provide two or three dimensional models of the world.

• In part contents of cabinets determined by medicinal value; and men trained in medicine studied zoology and botany.

• Early naturalists: Pierre Belon (1517-64), Guillaume Rondelet (1507-66), Hippolyto Salviani (1514-72), Conrad Gesner ((1516-65), and Ulyssis Aldrovandi (1522-1605).

Memory techniques are a form of language constructed of images and spaces to express ideas.

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