{"product_id":"peter-collinson-and-the-eighteenth-century-jean-oneill-9780871692641","title":"Peter Collinson and the Eighteenth-Century Natural History Exchange: Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 264)","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jean O'Neill,Elizabeth P. McLean\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0871692643\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780871692641\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e American Philosophical Society Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.47lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.63d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eScitech Book News\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2009 pg. 124","brand":"Jean O'Neill","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47419118584063,"sku":"9780871692641","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f9cbf68a-fd87-485e-803f-1ca486756097.jpg?v=1761509563","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/peter-collinson-and-the-eighteenth-century-jean-oneill-9780871692641","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}