Article ID: CBB001211514

Cartier, Champlain, and the Fruits of the New World: Botanical Exchange in the 16th and 17th Centuries (2008)

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Dickenson, Victoria J. V. (Author)


Scientia Canadensis: Journal of the History of Canadian Science, Technology, and Medicine
Volume: 31
Pages: 27--47


Publication Date: 2008
Edition Details: Part of a special issue, “Natural Science in the New World: The Descriptive Enterprise”
Language: English

Much has been written of the Columbian exchange, the transfer between New World and Old of people, pathogens, flora and fauna. The biota of two hemispheres, once seemingly irredeemably separated, were interpenetrated, both through accident and through human agency. Part of this exchange involved medicinal and food plants, discovered in the New World and adopted into the Old. This paper examines the translation of a number of New World plants that were part of the 'Cartierian' or 'Champlinian' exchange that followed the voyages to North America by Jacques Cartier (1491-1557) between 1534 and 1541, and the explorations and settlements undertaken by Samuel de Champlain (1580?-1635) from 1603 to his death at Quebec in 1635. During this period, a number of North American plants were propagated in European nurseries and even found their way into everyday use in gardens or kitchens. How were these new plants viewed on their introduction and how were they incorporated into Europe's "vegetable" consciousness? Where did these new plants fit in the classification of the edible and the exotic?

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Article Dickenson, Victoria; Heaman, Elsbeth (2008) Introduction. Natural Science in the New World: The Descriptive Enterprise. Scientia Canadensis: Journal of the History of Canadian Science, Technology, and Medicine (p. 1). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Poul Holm
Poppy Nicol
Lauren Gardiner
Mark Nesbitt
K.J. Rankin
Patricia Allan
Concepts
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Botany
Natural history
Specimen exchange
Colonialism
Biological specimens
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
18th century
19th century
Early modern
20th century, early
Places
Europe
North America
Americas
China
India
Africa
Institutions
East India Company (English)
Habsburg, House of
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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