Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane, by James Delbourgo
James Stevens Curl on a tome that emphasises the physician/naturalist’s role in transforming cabinets of curiosities into major institutions of the Enlightenment
James Stevens Curl on a tome that emphasises the physician/naturalist’s role in transforming cabinets of curiosities into major institutions of the Enlightenment
James Delbourgo on a study of how scientists shared information and how through it they constructed the nation as an object of study
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers