Book contents
- Worlds of Natural History
- Advance praise for Worlds of Natural History
- Frontispiece
- Worlds of Natural History
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Plates
- Figures
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- I Early modern ventures
- 1 Visions of ancient natural history
- 2 Gessner’s history of nature
- 3 Natural history in the apothecary’s shop
- 4 Horticultural networking and sociable citation
- 5 European exchanges and communities
- 6 Making monsters
- 7 Indigenous naturalists
- 8 Insects, philosophy and the microscope
- II Enlightened orders
- III Publics and empires
- IV Connecting and conserving
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
- References
4 - Horticultural networking and sociable citation
from I - Early modern ventures
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 December 2018
- Worlds of Natural History
- Advance praise for Worlds of Natural History
- Frontispiece
- Worlds of Natural History
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Plates
- Figures
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- I Early modern ventures
- 1 Visions of ancient natural history
- 2 Gessner’s history of nature
- 3 Natural history in the apothecary’s shop
- 4 Horticultural networking and sociable citation
- 5 European exchanges and communities
- 6 Making monsters
- 7 Indigenous naturalists
- 8 Insects, philosophy and the microscope
- II Enlightened orders
- III Publics and empires
- IV Connecting and conserving
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
- References
- Type
- Chapter
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- Worlds of Natural History , pp. 61 - 77Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018