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... was not alone in challenging the gendered demarcation of scientific observation. From the second half of the century, British women travelers carefully packed minerals in cases, filled bags with botanical specimens, and roamed the shores in search of shells and seaweed. This article proposes that British women...

...Adam Komisaruk Critics from the eighteenth century to the present have largely agreed in portraying Erasmus Darwin as an apostle of sexual liberation. One of Darwin’s career-long themes, that erotic love unifies the visible universe and the invisible, reaches its apotheosis in The Botanic Garden...

... and, subsequently, Sir John Soane’s Museum in London, this wide-­ranging and impressive volume contextualizes Delany and her prolific craft activities, particularly her aston- ishingly detailed, vibrant, and botanically accurate paper collages, within the political, social, and aesthetic discourses of her...

... constitution and horti- cultural practice of botanical gardens, in which naturalization experiments admittedly produced degenerated imported species. On a more philosoph- ical level, Rousseau understands exotic botany as one of many manipula- tions of nature...

.... Botanical culture has proved an especially fertile site for investigations of how women were targeted Science and Sociability in Frances Burney’s Cecilia 7 5 as a scienti–c audience, and how, in turn, they played important roles in disseminating scienti–c theory.7 But Burney has been...

... on the Life of Dr. Darwin in 1804. In the Memoirs, Seward justifiably accuses Darwin of pla- giarizing lines of her verse in the first part of his long scientific poem The Botanic Garden (1791). As I will demonstrate, natural history taxonomies functioned as a template for what I term Seward’s “order...

...; the Botanic Garden that opened in 1802; and the Liverpool Royal Institution, opened in 1817.8 The Liverpool Royal Institution best characterizes Roscoe’s vision of the arts. It represents the culmination and consolidation of his various projects, incorporating within one organiza- tion facilities...

... described botanical specimens, but the frisson of distant places nevertheless became a fundamental part of the culture. If we consult the Oxford English Dictionary we note that the twentieth century projected the term into nightclubs where “exotic dancing” described...

... for future scholars. His characterizations of Hill’s father, Theophilus (5), and of the Duke of Rich- mond’s salon (21) call for further investigations of parochial virtuosi and of all the clever folks conducting research in the countryside. Inadequately appreci- ated figures, such as German botanical...

... translated and published two major Linnaean texts, A System of 114 Vegetables (1783) and The Families of Plants (1787), which succeeded in conveying into modern English parlance Latin botanical terms such as “pistils” and “sta- mens” instead of the euphemistic “pointals” and “chives” championed...

... the larger culture of stewardship that was developing in this period in England and on the European continent. As the king was increasingly viewed as the steward of his lands, issues such as protecting and expanding the national forests, establishing state nurseries, and promoting botanical expertise...

... that Murry's “The Moral Zoologist” appeared, Robert John Thornton, a physician and botanical writer, published eleven short lessons entitled “Botany for Ladies” in the Lady's Magazine . 18 At first glance, his lectures seem just as systematically arranged as Murry's: they are carefully planned and divided...

... too strange to be possible and he initially suspected a hoax.1 Where Joseph Banks saw a wealth of botanic knowledge in a bay that would be named after that fact, and Captain Cook’s Endeavour log represented the area favorably, Arthur Phillip, commander...

... Halley’s contributions to the study of eclipses and com- ets and the use of barometric pressure for assaying heights, the first half of the eighteenth century saw few of the groundbreaking scientific advances that would characterize the decades to follow. Though botanic gardens had existed in London...

... cultural achievements. A seeming contradiction is discussed in Alexandra Cook’s study of Rousseau as botanist, where she shows that he was caught between advocating the cultivation of local crops while cherishing a fascination for the botanical study of exotic...

..., were continued by Hume and Smith. Newtonian mathematics was cleaned up and the science pushed further by Colin Maclaurin, just as in biology men continued to work at problems concerning taxonomy or the line between botan- ical and animal life. In doing all this, they referred to philosophers...

... publications, she distinguishes between horticultural books focus- ing on growing techniques, botanical books devoted exclusively to plant classifi- cation, and pleasure-gardening books emphasizing design and ancient proto- types. In discussing techniques for transferring plants from their sources...

..., and Patronage (New York: Cambridge Univ., 2001). Pp. 312. $59.95. isbn 0-521-77147-1 Taylor, Walter Kingsley & Eliane M. Norman. André Michaux in Florida: An Eighteenth-Century Botanical Journey (Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida, 2002). Pp...

... using that power rather more cautiously until his death. Emerson loves lists, so there are no less than four substantial appendixes covering Ilay’s record in the House of Lords, his library, his scientific mod- els, and of his botanical transactions in an age of international plant hunting...

... The Voyage’s main interest thus lies elsewhere. Although the need to press forward often meant cutting exploratory land trips short, with two reputed men of science on board, the naturalist Com- merson and the astronomer Véron, Bougainville was able to fine-tune the botanical, zoological...