1. Shadwell Thomas, The virtuoso (1676), ed. by Nicolson M. H., Rodes D. S. (Lincoln, Nebr., 1966), 72. Appropriately enough, these are the words of Sir Nicholas Gimcrack.
2. The term, the “new sensory natural history”, comes from the writings of Ulisse Aldrovandi (Biblioteca Universitaria, Bologna, Aldrovandi, ms. 21, IV, c.36) though it was used more frequently by later naturalists like Boccone and Redi. Boccone Paolo, Museo di piante rare delta Sicilia, Malta, Corsica, Italia, Piemonte e Germania (Venice, 1697), 2.