Holophusicon: the Leverian Museum : an eighteenth-century English institution of science, curiosity, and art /Adrienne L. Kaeppler.

"The Holophusicon ('embracing all of nature') or Leverian Museum was the world's first popular museum of science, curiosity and art - going back to 1771. Its contents included the largest collection of Cook-voyage specimens and objects ever exhibited in one place, in addition to sculptured heads from the Cave of Elephanta in India, Oliver Cromwell's armor, the Turkish clothing and guns of Edward Wortly Montague, birds, fossils, and minerals."--Provided by the publisher.