Natural science and the origins of the British Empire /
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
by Sarah Irving.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
London :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Pickering & Chatto,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2008.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xiii, 183 pages ;
Dimensions
25 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
Empires in perspective ;
Volume Designation
no. 5
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
'In a pure soil': Francis Bacon's empire of knowledge -- Restoring Eden in America: the Hartlib Circle's pansophical empire -- Robert Boyle's Protestant colonial project -- The Royal Society and the Atlantic world -- John Locke's language of empire -- Conclusion.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"Irving places seventeenth-century science in the context of England's colonization of the Atlantic world. She argues that men of science held a conception of empire which has been overlooked by scholars. This was the idea of man's original dominion over the earth. Endowed to Adam in the Garden of Eden, this mastery over the world consisted in his perfect knowledge of nature. In the Fall, however, Adam lost his omniscience and consequently his earthly empire." "Scientists, including Francis Bacon, Robert Boyle and John Locke, believed that it was England's task to restore man's dominion over nature. In this project, the Atlantic colonies were a repository of lost knowledge; a storehouse of information about climate, animals, plants and people. Bringing the history of early modern science to bear upon the intellectual origins of the British Empire, Irving investigates the way that England's colonial empire became tied to the redemptive project of restoring man's empire of knowledge."--BOOK JACKET.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Natural science and the origins of the British Empire.
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Bacon, Francis,1561-1626.
Boyle, Robert,1627-1691.
Hartlib, Samuel,ca. 1600-1662.
Locke, John,1632-1704.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Imperialism and science.
Natural history-- History-- 17th century.
Science-- History-- 17th century.
Natural History-- history.
15.50 general world history; history of great parts of the world, peoples, civilizations: general.
30.01 history of the exact sciences.
British colonies.
Imperialism and science.
Imperialism.
Natural history.
Naturvetenskap-- historia-- 1600-talet.
Science.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Great Britain, Colonies.
Storbritannien, kolonier.
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.