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Studies in history and philosophy of science. Part C, Studies in history and philosophy of biological and biomedical sciences, 2009-12, Vol.40 (4), p.256-264
John Locke’s seed lists: a case study in botanical exchange
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Studies in history and philosophy of science. Part C, Studies in history and philosophy of biological and biomedical sciences, 2009-12, Vol.40 (4), p.256-264
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England: Elsevier Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr
2009
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This paper gives a detailed analysis of four seed lists in the journals of John Locke. These lists provide a window into a fascinating open network of botanical exchange in the early 1680s which included two of the leading botanists of the day, Pierre Magnol of Montpellier and Jacob Bobart the Younger of Oxford. The provenance and significance of the lists are assessed in relation to the relevant extant herbaria and plant catalogues from the period. The lists and associated correspondence provide the main evidence for Locke’s own important, though modest contribution to early modern botany, a contribution which he would have regarded as a small part of the broader project of constructing a natural history of plants. They also provide a detailed case study of the sort of open and informal network of knowledge exchange in the early modern period that is widely recognised by historians of science, but all too rarely illustrated.