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Listing People (2012)

Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Volume: 103, no. 4
Issue: 4
Pages: 735-742

DOI: 10.1086/669046

Publication Date: 2012
Edition Details: Part of focus section, “Listmania”
Language: English

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Natural history Collectors and collecting Tables; catalogs; lists Apothecaries Specimens 18th century Great Britain Petiver, James

Historians and commentators have long discussed tensions between specialist and lay expertise in the making of scientific knowledge. Such accounts have often described quarrels over the distribution of expertise in nineteenth-century popular and imperial sciences. The crowdsourcing of science on a global scale, however, arguably began in the early modern era. This essay examines the lists of specimen suppliers, the artifacts of a worldwide collecting campaign, published by the London apothecary James Petiver at the turn of the eighteenth century. Listing suppliers helped Petiver advertise his status as a global specimen broker in the Republic of Letters. However, publicly listing his sources drew criticism over the social character of his collecting project, while lists became synonymous with the debasement of learning in polemics over natural history.

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Description “Examines the lists of specimen suppliers [from] a worldwide collecting campaign [that was] published by the London apothecary James Petiver at the turn of the 18th century.” (from the abstract)

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Article Delbourgo, James; Müller-Wille, Staffan (2012) Introduction. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 710-715). unapi

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