Book Reviews

Anglo‐Spanish Enlightenment: Joseph Shepherd, an English ‘ilustrado' in Valladolid

“…48 Some of Shepherd's scientific curiosity may have been spurred by his friends and correspondents in England and France, in particular with regard to the vogue for natural history -'the bookish sport', as G. S. Rousseau called it. 51 Shepherd kept up to date with advances in natural history with the latest works on the subject, including Buffon's Histoire naturelle, as well as with Spanish publications such as William Bowles's Introduccion a la historia natural, y a la geografía física de España (2nd edn, 1782). Given that, in Tunstall's view, Spain was unexplored in this regard, he asked for help collecting specimens, giving Shepherd specific directions for how to preserve them.…”