Professor of Early Modern History at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, Stéphane Van Damme has worked on the origins of early modern scientific knowledge and European Culture between 1650 and 1850 by looking at essential elements such as scientific centres (Lyons, Paris, London, Edinburgh, New York), founding fathers (Descartes, Linneaus), paradigmatic disciplines (philosophy, natural history, archaeology) and imperial projects. His last book is entitled Seconde Nature. Rematérialiser les sciences de Bacon à Tocqueville (Presses du réel, 2020). He co-edited with Hanna Hodacs and Kenneth Nyberg, Linnaeus, Natural History and the circulation of Knowledge (Oxford, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2018).--Professeur d’histoire moderne à l’Ecole Normale Supérieure à Paris, Stéphane Van Damme travaille sur les origines des sciences modernes et la culture européenne entre 1650 et 1850 en examinant différents éléments essentiels tels que les centres de savoirs (Lyon, Paris, Londres, Edimbourg, New York), les pères fondateurs (Descartes, Linnée), les disciplines paradigmatiques (la philosophie, l’histoire naturelle ou l’archéologie), les projets impériaux. Son dernier livre est intitulé : Seconde Nature. Rematérialiser les sciences de Bacon à Tocqueville (Presses du réel, 2020). Il a co-dirigé avec Hanna Hodacs et Kenneth Nyberg, Linnaeus, Natural History and the circulation of Knowledge (Oxford, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2018).

• List of illustrations and tablesPrefaceNotes on naming conventionsList of abbreviationsIntroduction: de-centring and re-centring Linnaeus, Hanna Hodacs, Kenneth Nyberg and Stéphane Van Damme1. Notebooks, files and slips: Carl Linnaeus and his disciples at work, Isabelle Charmantier2. What is a botanical author? Pehr Osbeck’s travelogue and the culture of collaborative publishing in Linnaean botany, Bettina Dietz3. The price of Linnaean natural history: materiality, commerce and change, Hanna Hodacs4. In the name of Linnaeus: Paris as a disputed capital of natural knowledge (1730-1789), Stéphane Van Damme5. On the use and abuse of natural history: Linnaean science in Kant’s Königsberg, Jonas Gerlings6. The Edinburgh connection: Linnaean natural history, Scottish moral philosophy and the colonial implications of Enlightenment thought, Linda Andersson Burnett and Bruce Buchan7. Negotiating people, plants and empires: the fieldwork of Johann Gerhard König in South and South East Asia (1768-1785), Niklas Thode Jensen8. Lives of useful curiosity: the global legacy of Pehr Löfling in the long eighteenth century, Kenneth Nyberg and Manuel Lucena GiraldoSummariesBibliography of works citedIndex

Professor of Early Modern History at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, Stéphane Van Damme has worked on the origins of early modern scientific knowledge and European Culture between 1650 and 1850 by looking at essential elements such as scientific centres (Lyons, Paris, London, Edinburgh, New York), founding fathers (Descartes, Linneaus), paradigmatic disciplines (philosophy, natural history, archaeology) and imperial projects. His last book is entitled Seconde Nature. Rematérialiser les sciences de Bacon à Tocqueville (Presses du réel, 2020). He co-edited with Hanna Hodacs and Kenneth Nyberg, Linnaeus, Natural History and the circulation of Knowledge (Oxford, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2018).--Professeur d’histoire moderne à l’Ecole Normale Supérieure à Paris, Stéphane Van Damme travaille sur les origines des sciences modernes et la culture européenne entre 1650 et 1850 en examinant différents éléments essentiels tels que les centres de savoirs (Lyon, Paris, Londres, Edimbourg, New York), les pères fondateurs (Descartes, Linnée), les disciplines paradigmatiques (la philosophie, l’histoire naturelle ou l’archéologie), les projets impériaux. Son dernier livre est intitulé : Seconde Nature. Rematérialiser les sciences de Bacon à Tocqueville (Presses du réel, 2020). Il a co-dirigé avec Hanna Hodacs et Kenneth Nyberg, Linnaeus, Natural History and the circulation of Knowledge (Oxford, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2018).

• List of illustrations and tablesPrefaceNotes on naming conventionsList of abbreviationsIntroduction: de-centring and re-centring Linnaeus, Hanna Hodacs, Kenneth Nyberg and Stéphane Van Damme1. Notebooks, files and slips: Carl Linnaeus and his disciples at work, Isabelle Charmantier2. What is a botanical author? Pehr Osbeck’s travelogue and the culture of collaborative publishing in Linnaean botany, Bettina Dietz3. The price of Linnaean natural history: materiality, commerce and change, Hanna Hodacs4. In the name of Linnaeus: Paris as a disputed capital of natural knowledge (1730-1789), Stéphane Van Damme5. On the use and abuse of natural history: Linnaean science in Kant’s Königsberg, Jonas Gerlings6. The Edinburgh connection: Linnaean natural history, Scottish moral philosophy and the colonial implications of Enlightenment thought, Linda Andersson Burnett and Bruce Buchan7. Negotiating people, plants and empires: the fieldwork of Johann Gerhard König in South and South East Asia (1768-1785), Niklas Thode Jensen8. Lives of useful curiosity: the global legacy of Pehr Löfling in the long eighteenth century, Kenneth Nyberg and Manuel Lucena GiraldoSummariesBibliography of works citedIndex

Professor of Early Modern History at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, Stéphane Van Damme has worked on the origins of early modern scientific knowledge and European Culture between 1650 and 1850 by looking at essential elements such as scientific centres (Lyons, Paris, London, Edinburgh, New York), founding fathers (Descartes, Linneaus), paradigmatic disciplines (philosophy, natural history, archaeology) and imperial projects. His last book is entitled Seconde Nature. Rematérialiser les sciences de Bacon à Tocqueville (Presses du réel, 2020). He co-edited with Hanna Hodacs and Kenneth Nyberg, Linnaeus, Natural History and the circulation of Knowledge (Oxford, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2018).--Professeur d’histoire moderne à l’Ecole Normale Supérieure à Paris, Stéphane Van Damme travaille sur les origines des sciences modernes et la culture européenne entre 1650 et 1850 en examinant différents éléments essentiels tels que les centres de savoirs (Lyon, Paris, Londres, Edimbourg, New York), les pères fondateurs (Descartes, Linnée), les disciplines paradigmatiques (la philosophie, l’histoire naturelle ou l’archéologie), les projets impériaux. Son dernier livre est intitulé : Seconde Nature. Rematérialiser les sciences de Bacon à Tocqueville (Presses du réel, 2020). Il a co-dirigé avec Hanna Hodacs et Kenneth Nyberg, Linnaeus, Natural History and the circulation of Knowledge (Oxford, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2018).

• List of illustrations and tablesPrefaceNotes on naming conventionsList of abbreviationsIntroduction: de-centring and re-centring Linnaeus, Hanna Hodacs, Kenneth Nyberg and Stéphane Van Damme1. Notebooks, files and slips: Carl Linnaeus and his disciples at work, Isabelle Charmantier2. What is a botanical author? Pehr Osbeck’s travelogue and the culture of collaborative publishing in Linnaean botany, Bettina Dietz3. The price of Linnaean natural history: materiality, commerce and change, Hanna Hodacs4. In the name of Linnaeus: Paris as a disputed capital of natural knowledge (1730-1789), Stéphane Van Damme5. On the use and abuse of natural history: Linnaean science in Kant’s Königsberg, Jonas Gerlings6. The Edinburgh connection: Linnaean natural history, Scottish moral philosophy and the colonial implications of Enlightenment thought, Linda Andersson Burnett and Bruce Buchan7. Negotiating people, plants and empires: the fieldwork of Johann Gerhard König in South and South East Asia (1768-1785), Niklas Thode Jensen8. Lives of useful curiosity: the global legacy of Pehr Löfling in the long eighteenth century, Kenneth Nyberg and Manuel Lucena GiraldoSummariesBibliography of works citedIndex