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Theatres of Glass
Rebecca Stott
其他書名
The Woman who Brought the Sea to the City
出版Short Books, 2003
主題Biography & Autobiography / WomenHistory / Europe / Great Britain / GeneralNature / GeneralNature / Animals / Marine LifePets / Fish & AquariumsScience / History
ISBN19040953649781904095361
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=WgkhAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋In the winter of 1847, the cloisters of Westminster Abbey enjoyed a sudden growth in popularity, though the visitors who streamed in were not of the usual kind. They were naturalists, come to see the very first marine aquarium in England, a large collection of madrepores and sea sponges kept in glass cases in the drawing-room of Ashburnham House. The Abbey aquarium was established not by the Revered Lord John Thynne, the Sub-Dean of the Abbey, but by his extraordinary wife Anna, a great beauty and mother of 10 children, who by a process of serendipity, discovered how to keep and breed her pet sea creatures in glass tanks in central London. Anna's invention of the aquarium coincided with a major philosophical turning point in history. Married to a clergyman, she found herself working in a field which cut right through to the heart of the prevailing conflict about the origins and development of life on the planet.