Why Rich People Used to Collect Unicorn Horns

Support The Nerdwriter on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/c/nerdwriter Produced in collaboration with the National Gallery of Art Production Studio. For more National Gallery of Art videos: https://www.youtube.com/@UC416BswuE2ItX23GySxZcRQ SOURCES Lorraine Daston and Katharine Park, Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150–1750. Zone Books, 1998. Shapin, Steven. The Scientific Revolution. University of Chicago Press, 1996. Art and Curiosity Cabinets of the Late Renaissance: A Contribution to the History of Collecting. Edited by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, translated by Jonathan Blower, Getty Resear