ABSTRACT
As the seventeenth century passed into the eighteenth, the development of ideas about museums and collections played a significant role in the generation of ideas about the world, and man's place in it, building upon the developments written about by Quiccheberg (Part I, Chapter 2, this volume.) Particular interest concentrates upon three authors: Johann Major, Michael Bernhard Valentini and Kaspar Friedrich Einchel (or Jencquel) otherwise known by his pseudonym of 'C. F. Neikelius'.
