Centaurus. Journal of the European Society for the History of Science, Volume 65 (2023), Issue 3

Special Issue: Scientific Collections on the Move

Irina Podgorny & Nathalie Richard, Beyond the Metropolis. Collectors, Itineraries, and Provincial Museums in the Long 19th Century

Miruna Achim, Carving an Origin for Mexico’s Ancient Cultures. Jade Artifacts and the Question of their Provenance in 19th-Century Science

Xavier Ulled Bertran & José Pardo-Tomás, From Private to Public (and Vice Versa). Scientific Collections in Barcelona, 1830–1880

Claudia Espejel, Nation in Pieces. The Gathering of Franciso Plancarte’s Archaeological Collection in Late 19th-Century Mexico

Stefanie Gänger, “The Finest in Any Museum in the World”. Collecting Pre-Conquest Antiquities in the Southern Andes, ca. 1850–1911

Laura Cházaro-García, How “Mexican Pathologies” Were Transformed into Objects of Exhibition. Museums of Pathological Anatomy in 19th-Century Mexico

Susana V. García, From Livestock Farming to Amateur Botany in Rio de la Plata. The Case of the Uruguayan Mariano B. Berro (1838–1919)

Maria Margaret Lopes, Objects and Contradictions on the Move: From Private Collections to Provincial Brazilian Museums

Serge Reubi, How Do Objects Enter and Exit Collections? Exchanging Material Culture Over the Atlantic, 1920–1940

Pietro Corsi, Of Names, Labels, and Books in 19th-Century Tuscan Palaeontological Collections

Book Reviews