The image shows the types of objects Imperato collected for his cabinet of curiosities, including shells, animals, minerals, and botanic specimens.

Imperato's cabinet was part of this movement and provided a place for aristocrats in society to expand their knowledge.

This fold-out woodcut from the book Dell’Historia Naturale depicts a room full of collection of natural objects.

The expressions on their faces display amazement and curiosity, and their body language suggests interest in the room itself.

There were collections of wonder cabinets around Europe that displayed objects from the natural world in a similar way.

This scientific movement, empiricism, re-examined previous ideas about what it meant to be human and a part of nature.

Apothecaries, like Ferranto Imperte, collected natural objects such as animals, botanicals, and minerals as a way to experiment and draw conclusions about the physical world.

[3] This helped fuel the surge of curiosity cabinets because as scientific exploration was encouraged, more discoveries were found and people wanted to share their knowledge with other academics.