Coulton, Richard (Author)
James Petiver FRS (ca 1663–1718) was a professional apothecary and prominent natural historian in London at the turn of the eighteenth century. This essay introduces a special issue of Notes and Records, ‘Remembering James Petiver’, marking the 300th anniversary of his death. Combining his known biography with new research, it accounts for Petiver's formation as urban apothecary and botanist, his emergence as public natural historian in the mid 1690s, and his subsequent career as natural history collector and author. Petiver's museum of plants and invertebrates was accumulated by co-ordinating an unprecedented network of relatively ordinary people, many of them medical practitioners, to collect for him wherever they travelled: North and South America, western and southern Africa, mainland Europe, South and East Asia, Indonesia and the Philippines. This network and its achievements were predicated upon Britain's expanding global commercial and colonial interests (including those that exploited the traffic in and labour of enslaved human beings). It also depended upon Petiver's strategic management of his collaborators, through the exchange of correspondence and material objects. New analysis of Petiver's network, specimens, publications and manuscripts revises the prevailing view that he was careless and disorganized, to reveal a socially industrious and intellectually discriminating natural scientist.
...MoreDescription An introduction to a special issue of Notes and Records titled "‘What he hath gather'd together shall not be lost’: remembering James Petiver".
Review E. Geoffrey Hancock (2021) Review of "‘What he hath gather'd together shall not be lost’: remembering James Petiver". Archives of Natural History (pp. 190-191).
Article Charles E. Jarvis (2020) James Petiver (c. 1663–1718): A Concise Bibliography. Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science (pp. 329-333).
Article Charles E. Jarvis (2020) ‘The Most Common Grass, Rush, Moss, Fern, Thistles, Thorns or Vilest Weeds You Can Find’: James Petiver's Plants. Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science (pp. 303-328).
Article Richard I. Vane-Wright (2020) James Petiver's 1717 Papilionum Britanniae: An Analysis of the First Comprehensive Account of British Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea). Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science (pp. 275-302).
Article Kathleen Susan Murphy (2020) James Petiver's ‘Kind Friends’ and ‘Curious Persons’ in the Atlantic World: Commerce, Colonialism and Collecting. Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science (pp. 259-274).
Article Alice Marples (2020) James Petiver's ‘Joynt-Stock’: Middling Agency in Urban Collecting Networks. Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science (pp. 239-258).
Article Katrina Elizabeth Maydom (2020) James Petiver's Apothecary Practice and the Consumption of American Drugs in Early Modern London. Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science (pp. 213-238).
Article Charles E. Jarvis; Richard Coulton (2020) A Chronology of the Life of James Petiver (ca 1663–1718). Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science (pp. 183-187).
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Camarasa, Josep M.;
Ibáñez, Neus;
(2012)
Joan Salvador and James Petiver: The Last Years (1715--1718) of Their Scientific Correspondence
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Murphy, Kathleen S.;
(2013)
Collecting Slave Traders: James Petiver, Natural History, and the British Slave Trade
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Camarasa, Josep M.;
Ibáñez, Neus;
(2007)
Joan Salvador and James Petiver: A Scientific Correspondence (1706--1714) in Time of War
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Kinukawa, T.;
(2011)
Natural History as Entrepreneurship: Maria Sibylla Merian's Correspondence with J. G. Volkamer II and James Petiver
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Kinukawa, Tomomi;
(2013)
Learned vs. Commercial? The Commodification of Nature in Early Modern Natural History Specimen Exchanges in England, Germany, and the Netherlands
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Article
Charles E. Jarvis;
(2020)
‘The Most Common Grass, Rush, Moss, Fern, Thistles, Thorns or Vilest Weeds You Can Find’: James Petiver's Plants
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Delbourgo, James;
(2012)
Listing People
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Chapter
Leah Knight;
(2018)
Horticultural Networking and Sociable Citation
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Article
Böhme, Katrin;
Müller-Wille, Staffan;
(2013)
“In der Jungfernheide hinterm Pulvermagazin frequens”
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Article
Marieke M. A. Hendriksen;
(2016)
Necessary, Not Sufficient: The Circulation of Knowledge about Stained Glass in the Northern Netherlands, 1650–1821
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Book
Egmond, Florike;
(2010)
The World of Carolus Clusius: Natural History in the Making, 1550--1610
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Katrina Elizabeth Maydom;
(2020)
James Petiver's Apothecary Practice and the Consumption of American Drugs in Early Modern London
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Article
Sebestian Kroupa;
(2015)
Ex epistulis Philippinensibus: Georg Joseph Kamel SJ (1661–1706) and His Correspondence Network
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Article
Bleichmar, Daniela;
(2008)
Resumen de El imperio visible: la mirada experta y la imagen en las expediciones científicas de la Ilustración
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Pugliano, Valentina;
(2012)
Specimen Lists: Artisanal Writing or Natural Historical Paperwork?
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Article
Alice Marples;
(2020)
James Petiver's ‘Joynt-Stock’: Middling Agency in Urban Collecting Networks
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Ibáñez, Neus;
Montserrat, Josep M.;
Soriano, Ignasi;
Camarasa, Josep M.;
(2006)
Plant Material Exchanged between James Petiver (ca. 1663--1718) and Joan Salvador I Riera (1683--1725). I. The Balearic plants conserved in the BC-Salvador and BM-Sloane herbaria
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Karl Schulze-Hagen;
Tim R. Birkhead;
(2023)
“Der fluglose Alk”: Johann Friedrich Naumann’s 1844 account of Pinguinus impennis (great auk)
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Article
Richard I. Vane-Wright;
(2020)
James Petiver's 1717 Papilionum Britanniae: An Analysis of the First Comprehensive Account of British Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea)
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Simpson, Marcus B., Jr.;
Simpson, Sallie W.;
(2008)
John Lawson's A New Voyage to Carolina: Notes on the Publication History of the London (1709) Edition
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