The exhibition is part of the “The Green Cap: Management, Environment Communication and Art”
Text from the exhibition curator: Brukenthal Library comprises a number of epoch-making books that appertain to the 16th – 18th centuries among which there are literary and scientific ones, enriched by illustrations reflecting the period of the great discoveries when science and superstition where still coexisting. The faith of the animals around the world was greatly influenced by the conceptions and the knowledge displayed in the period documents, texts and images alike. Considering the fascinating animal representation as a starting point, the exhibition invites to a pleasant incursion in one of the most decisive chapter in the history of natural science and environment learning through the means of books as “Allgemeine Naturgeschichte der Fische” (The Natural History of Fishes) by Marcus Elieser Bloch; Berlin, last decade of 18th c. or “Histoire generale des drogues“ (The Universal History of Pharmaceutical Substances) by Pierre Pomet, Paris 1694.