Imperial nature : Joseph Hooker and the practices of Victorian science / Jim Endersby.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Endersby, Jim, author.

Contributor:

University of Chicago. Press, publisher.

Mark B. Adams Emergence of Modern Science Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hooker, Joseph Dalton, 1817-1911.

Hooker, Joseph Dalton.

Botanists--Great Britain--Biography.

Botanists.

Great Britain.

Naturalists--Great Britain--Biography.

Naturalists.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Adams, Mark B. (former owner) (autograph) (Adams copy)

Physical Description:

xii, 429 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Edition:

Paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010, ©2008.

Summary:

"Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) was an internationally renowned botanist, a close friend and early supporter of Charles Darwin, and one of the first - and most successful - British men of science to become a full-time professional. He was also, Jim Endersby argues, the perfect embodiment of Victorian science. A vivid picture of the complex interrelationships of scientific work and scientific ideas, Imperial Nature gracefully uses one individual's career to illustrate the changing world of science in the Victorian era." "By analyzing Hooker's career, Endersby offers vivid insights into the everyday activities of nineteenth-century naturalists, considering matters as diverse as botanical illustration and microscopy, classification, and specimen transportation and storage, to reveal what naturalists actually did, how they earned a living, and what drove their scientific theories. What emerges is a rare glimpse of Victorian scientific practices in action. By focusing on science's material practices and one of its foremost practitioners, Endersby ably links concerns about empire, professionalism, and philosophical practices to the forging of a nineteenth-century scientific identity."--Jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

Traveling

Collecting

Corresponding

Seeing

Classifying

Settling

Publishing

Charting

Associating

Governing

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-410) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy gifted by Dr. Mark B. Adams in 2018.

ISBN:

9780226207926

0226207927

OCLC:

694088821

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