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French Botany in the Enlightenment

The Ill-fated Voyages of La Pérouse and His Rescuers

Inbunden, Engelska, 2003

AvR.L. Williams,R. L. Williams,R L Williams

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This volume completes a trilogy meant to be a commentary on the botanophilia that captured the literate public in 18th-century France. Enthusiastic public support for any governmental initiative likely to expand botanical knowledge was an expression of immense curiosity about the natural world beyond Europe, which extended into a curiosity about primitive people and cultures little known. It amounted to a quest for universal knowledge that could benefit all mankind - the spirit of the Enlightenment, with science the key to humanity's advancement. The botanists exploring abroad brought back exciting quantities of new species and genera, but also a message about the condition of primitive people that undercut the fashionable image of noble savagery.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2003-03-31
Mått155 x 233 x 19 mm
Vikt613 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieInternational Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées
Antal sidor249
Upplaga2003
FörlagKluwer Academic Publishers
ISBN9781402011092

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Royal Instructions for Scientific Exploration.- The French Gardener Overseas.- The Voyage of La Pérouse: Part 1, From Brest to Monterey Bay.- The Voyage of La Pérouse: Part 2, From Monterey Bay to Botany Bay.- Adventures and Misadventures: The Bizarre Story of the Dupetit-Thouars Brothers.- The Voyage of Entrecasteaux: Part 1, Genesis and Preparation.- The Voyage of Entrecasteaux: Part 2, From Brest to Tasmania.- The Voyage of Entrecasteaux: Part 3, New Caledonia to Ambon.- The Voyage of Entrecasteaux: Part 4, Esperance Bay.- The Voyage of Entrecasteaux: Part 5, Tasmania Revisisted.- The Voyage of Entrecasteaux: Part 6, On to New Caledonia.- The Voyage of Entrecasteaux: Part 7, Its Woeful End.- Internment.- From Explorer to Closet Botanist.- Epilogue.- General Index.- Plant Index.

From the reviews: "William's book is the third in a trilogy devoted to the love of botany in eighteenth-century France ... . Of value are his translations of original printed documents connected with the voyage, and his detailed chronological record of events ... . The story of La Perouse's lost expedition and the trials and tribulations of those who went in search of it is inevitably a moving and exciting one, well recounted here." (Emma Spary, British Society for the History of Science, 2005)