Author : John Gascoigne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 11,46 MB
Release : 2003-12-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521542111
A biography of scientific thinker Joseph Banks, placing his work in the context of eighteenth-century Britain.
Author : John Gascoigne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,69 MB
Release : 1998-06-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521550697
Joseph Banks is one of the most significant figures of the English Enlightenment. This book places his work in promoting 'imperial science', in the context of the consolidation of the British State during a time of extraordinary upheaval. The American, French and Industrial Revolutions unleashed intense and dramatic change, placing growing pressure on the British state and increasing its need for expert advice on scientific matters. This was largely provided by Banks, who used his personal networks and systems of patronage to integrate scientific concerns with the complex machinery of government. In this book, originally published in 1998, Gascoigne skilfully draws out the rich detail of Banks' life within the broader political framework, and shows how imperial concerns prompted interest in the possible uses of science for economic and strategic gain. This is an important examination of the British State during a time of change and upheaval.
Author : Toby Musgrave
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 38,81 MB
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300223838
A fascinating life of Sir Joseph Banks which restores him to his proper place in history as a leading scientific figure of the English Enlightenment As official botanist on James Cook's first circumnavigation, the longest-serving president of the Royal Society, advisor to King George III, the "father of Australia," and the man who established Kew as the world's leading botanical garden, Sir Joseph Banks was integral to the English Enlightenment. Yet he has not received the recognition that his multifarious achievements deserve. In this engaging account, Toby Musgrave reveals the true extent of Banks's contributions to science and Britain. From an early age Banks pursued his passion for natural history through study and extensive travel, most famously on the HMS Endeavour. He went on to become a pivotal figure in the advancement of British scientific, economic, and colonial interests. With his enquiring, enterprising mind and extensive network of correspondents, Banks's reputation and influence were global. Drawing widely on Banks's writings, Musgrave sheds light on Banks's profound impact on British science and empire in an age of rapid advancement.
Author : Joseph Banks
Publisher :
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 12,64 MB
Release : 1844
Category : Botanists
ISBN :
Author : Edward Smith
Publisher : London : J. Lane ; New York : J. Lane Company
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 35,30 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820
ISBN :
Author : James Robert Wood
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,36 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Anecdotes
ISBN : 9780813942209
"This volume is both a formal study of the anecdote's properties and possibilities and an inquiry into the anecdote's intellectual function in Enlightenment culture. The author contends that anecdotes acted in Enlightenment writing as mediators between the incidents of human life and the laws of human nature, connecting the abstractions of philosophical reflection with lived experience. Successive chapters take a specific genre (the essay), a single writer (David Hume), a historical event (the Endeavour voyage), and a literary project (the Lyrical Ballads) as nets for collecting anecdotes. Each chapter is committed to the particularities of individual anecdotes and the specificities of the uses to which these anecdotes were put. However, the book also outlines a larger historical narrative in which the anecdote moves from a central place in the science of human nature to holding a particular place in poetry, even as the anecdote began to lose its currency in the emerging human sciences"--
Author : Neil Chambers
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 40,21 MB
Release : 2024-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1040236006
A record of fifty years of intellectual and technological activity. This record provides an insight into the development of science and discovery from the Eighteenth to the early Nineteenth Century. It links British science and society to developments on the continent of Europe, the West Indies, North America and to countries farther afield.
Author : Patricia Fara
Publisher : Icon Books
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 45,14 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1840464445
"Enticing ... with a sharp eye for 18th-century mores, this is an engrossing exploration of the growth of the British Empire." Good Book Guide
Author : Edward Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 22,11 MB
Release : 2011-05-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1108031129
This 1911 biography reveals the extraordinary influence of the wealthy botanist Banks on eighteenth-century science, exploration and society.
Author : Heidi Moore
Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 34,93 MB
Release : 2008-10-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781410932242
This book profiles the life and achievements of Joseph Banks, who traveled around the world on a quest to discover and name new species of plants and who became president of the Royal Society in 1778.
