Peter Collinson and the Eighteenth-Century Natural History Exchange: Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 264) (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780871692641)

Collinson's life is a microcosm of 18th-cent. natural history. A gardener and naturalist by avocation, he was what we would now call a facilitator in natural science, disseminating botanical and horticultural knowledge during the Enlightenment. He influenced the Comte de Buffon and Linnaeus. He found clients for the Phila. naturalist John Bartram. American plants populated great estates like those of the Dukes of Richmond, Norfolk, and Bedford, as well as the Chelsea Physic Garden, and the nurseries of James Gordon and Robert Furber. Botanic painters such as Mark Catesby and Georg Dionysius Ehret painted American plants in Collinson's garden. He had an unprecedented effect on the exchange of scientific info. on both sides of the Atlantic. Illus.

Author: Jean O'Neill,Elizabeth P. McLean
ISBN-10: 0871692643
ISBN-13: 9780871692641
Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2008
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.47lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.63d

Review Citation(s):
Scitech Book News 06/01/2009 pg. 124