Reading the World: British Practices of Natural History, 1760-1820 - Couverture rigide

Rose, Edwin David

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0822948516 ISBN 13 : 9780822948513

Editeur : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2025

Synopsis

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries--a period that marked the emergence of a global modernity--educated landowners, or "gentlemen," dominated the development of British natural history, utilizing networks of trade and empire to inventory nature and understand events across the world. Specimens, ranging from a Welsh bittern to the plants of Botany Bay, were collected, recorded, and classified, while books were produced in London and copies distributed and used across Britain, Continental Europe, the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas. Natural history connected a diverse range of individuals, from European landowners to Polynesian priests, incorporating, distributing, synthesizing, and appropriating information collected on a global scale.

In Reading the World, Edwin D. Rose positions books, natural history specimens, and people in a close cycle of literary production and consumption. His book reveals new aspects of scientific practice and the specific roles of individuals employed to collect, synthesize, and distribute knowledge--reevaluating Joseph Banks's and Daniel Solander's investigations during James Cook's Endeavour voyage to the Pacific. Uncovering the range of skills involved in knowledge production, Rose expands our understanding of natural history as a cyclical process, from the initial collection and identification of specimens to the formal publication of descriptions to the eventual printing of sources.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Edwin D. Rose is currently AHRC Research Fellow in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and Advanced Research Fellow at Darwin College, Cambridge. From May 2025 he will be a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Research Fellow in the School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science at the University of Leeds.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0822948516
• ISBN 13: 9780822948513
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 408
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