Article ID: CBB001450348

Botanical Travel, Climate and David Moore's Moral Geographies of Europe (2014)

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During his forty-year curatorship of the Royal Dublin Society's botanical gardens in Glasnevin (1838--1879), David Moore undertook a number of excursions to continental Europe. These served to deepen the networks of plant exchange between Dublin and other botanical institutions and allowed him to examine the relationships between climate, plant survivability and societal development. This paper focuses on two trips taken in the 1860s to Scandinavia and Iberia and charts how Moore situated his experience of these places within a climatic hermeneutic. Moore's understanding of northern and southern Europe was organized around a set of judgments about their relative backwardness or advancement with respect to his experience of home and was seen through the lens of a moral climatology. Moreover, his Scots Presbyterian background and his commitment to natural theology informed his interpretation of the landscapes he encountered in his excursions across Europe.

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Authors & Contributors
Kim Walker
Edward Armston-Sheret
Meike Knittel
Alexandrowicz, Stefan Witold
Baumgartner, Sarah
Vagnon, Emmanuelle
Concepts
Travel; exploration
Geography
Botany
Cartography
Science and culture
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
16th century
Medieval
17th century
Places
Europe
United States
China
Mediterranean region
Byzantium
North America
Institutions
Monsanto Corporation
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