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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 3816224, member: 57463&quot;]Just by analogy, we look to the ancient Greeks for the roots of science. But, Democritus and his atom and even Empedocles suggesting based on fossils that mountains were once under water was not <b>science.</b> Science is a very specific way of examining your experiential world. Science <i>qua</i> science could not exist before the Age of Reason (circa 1650 forward).</p><p><br /></p><p>So, too, with collecting.&nbsp; Spink &amp; Son was founded in 1666. It was the Encyclopedists of the French Enlightenment who labeled the Classical era, the Dark Ages, and the Middle Ages. Only when antiquity was defined as something different from today could collectors pursue it. And, yes, the roots of that renewed interest in the ancient civilizations can be found in the Renaissance.</p><p><br /></p><p>Think also of the lack of <b>periodical</b> publications for collectors. Did the emergence of collector magazines change (i.e. &quot;ruin&quot;) collecting?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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