Book ID: CBB001510112

Carl Peter Thunberg: Botanist and Physician: Career-Building across the Oceans in the Eighteenth Century (2014)

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Skuncke, Marie-Christine (Author)


Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study


Publication Date: 2014
Physical Details: 376 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

The Swedish botanist and physician Carl Peter Thunberg, a pupil of Linnaeus, was the only European who visited and published his observations of Tokugawa Japan in the eighteenth century. On his way to and from Japan, he visited territories in the Dutch colonial empire: the Cape Colony, Batavia (present-day Jakarta), and Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Following his return to Sweden, he made a spectacular career at the University of Uppsala. He published a ground-breaking work on Japanese plants, Flora Japonica (1784), and a travel account that was translated into several languages. In 1787 the Swedish king Gustav Ill, on Thunberg's initiative, founded a new Botanical Garden and a monumental building for natural history - Linneanum, now the home of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS) - as a gift to the university. Marie-Christine Skuncke reconstructs Thunberg's scientific career by exploring exchanges within the networks which he built in Europe, the Dutch colonies, and Tokugawa Japan. Drawing on a wide range of sources, this book is a study of social practices in natural history, in a global perspective.

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Review Isabelle Charmantier (2016) Review of "Carl Peter Thunberg: Botanist and Physician: Career-Building across the Oceans in the Eighteenth Century". Archives of Natural History (pp. 180-181). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Charmantier, Isabelle
Müller-Wille, Staffan
Terrence Jackson
Adam, Luthfi
Cherry, Haydon
Watkins, Charles
Concepts
Botany
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Natural history
Classification in biology
Biology
Systematic botany
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
Edo period (Japan, 1603-1868)
20th century, early
Meiji period (Japan, 1868-1910)
21st century
Places
Sweden
Japan
Netherlands
Great Britain
Nagasaki (Japan)
Indian Ocean
Institutions
Lund. Universitet
Uppsala Universitet
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