ABSTRACT
Taking stock of how early collections were employed in studying numismatics and local natural history, chapter five highlighted the role of story telling within museums. The overlapping investigative style directed at both man-made artefacts and materia medica was the subject of chapter eight, with the focus there being instead on how the essences of objects were studied, and on the consequent practical uses investigated. And finally in the last two chapters the gradual rise to prominence of a third cognitive style has become clear, concerned this time with the proper order of collected specimens.
