French Botany in the Enlightenment
The Ill-fated Voyages of La Perouse and his Rescuers - International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idees 182, International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées 182
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05.12.2010, 1. Auflage 2003
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ISBN/EAN: 9789048162130
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: vii, 249 S., 15 s/w Illustr., 249 p. 15 illus.
Einband: kartoniertes Buch
Beschreibung
This volume completes a trilogy meant to be a commentary on the botanophilia that captured the literate public in 18th-century France. Enthusiastic public support for any governmental initiative likely to expand botanical knowledge was an expression of immense curiosity about the natural world beyond Europe. It amounted to a quest for universal knowledge that could benefit all mankind: useful knowledge that could improve the human condition in this life.