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… 1780. Public experiments were staged to verify, edify, and entertain. This could also be said for the circulation and exhibition of ‘curiosities’, which were simultaneously subjects of natural philosophical discourse, conversation pieces, … shoulders, arms to the elbows and whole trunk of a man.’ 16 As the Royal Society statutes specified, the purpose of the exhibition of these curiosities was ‘to discourse upon, rarities of nature and art; and thereupon to consider, what may …
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