Article ID: CBB408306473

Publishing Nature in an Age of Revolutions: Joseph Banks, Georg Forster and the Plants of the Pacific (2020)

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The construction and distribution of books containing large copperplate images was of great importance to practitioners of natural history during the eighteenth century. This article examines the case of the botanist and president of the Royal Society Sir Joseph Banks (1743–1820), who attempted to publish a series of images based on the botanical illustrations produced by Georg Forster (1754–94) on Cook's second voyage of exploration (1772–5) during the 1790s. The analysis reveals how the French Revolution influenced approaches to constructing and distributing works of natural history in Britain, moving beyond commercial studies of book production to show how Banks's political agenda shaped the taxonomic content and distribution of this publication. Matters were complicated by Forster's association with radical politics and the revolutionary ideologies attached to materials collected in the Pacific by the 1790s. Banks's response to the Revolution influenced the distribution of this great work, showing how British loyalist agendas interacted with scientific practice and shaped the diffusion of natural knowledge in the revolutionary age.

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Authors & Contributors
Noltie, Henry J.
Barney, Richard A.
Bonehill, John
Christie, Ann
Groves, Eric W.
Harris, Stephen A.
Journals
Archives of Natural History
Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation
Eighteenth-Century Studies
History of Science
Journal of Design History
Journal of Historical Geography
Publishers
Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh
Kew Publishing
Bodleian Library
Johns Hopkins University Press
Thames & Hudson
University of Pittsburgh Press
Concepts
Botany
Scientific illustration
Illustrations
Travel; exploration
Gardens
Science and art
People
Banks, Joseph
Linnaeus, Carolus
Kant, Immanuel
Barbauld, Anna Letitia
Bartram, John
Bartram, William
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
16th century
Early modern
Places
Great Britain
France
India
Australia
Germany
North America
Institutions
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Linnean Society of London
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