Imperial Designs: Botanical Illustration and the British Botanic Empire

Tobin, Beth Fowkes

doi:10.1353/sec.2010.0188

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1996

DOI: 10.1353/sec.2010.0188

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Imperial Designs: Botanical Illustration and the British Botanic Empire

Beth Fowkes Tobin¹

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“…The truth of nature was not simply discovered but artfully drawn to ensure the European dominance of the world. 84 The chemical empire is present in and expanding through the "things" of our daily lives long after the European territorial empires have disappeared, sustaining Western philosophical projects. 85 Whether the "hegemony of computers" in the global circulation of images and information would serve merely to enhance the performativity of this material empire or to empower marginalized constituents of the emergent global order is a matter of pressing concern.…”

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The mythical scientist in early twentieth-century America cut a lone figure, “impersonal as the chill northeast wind” and “oblivious of everything save his experiment.” He toiled through the night in his laboratory, “a place unimpressive and unmagical save for the constant-temperature bath with its tricky thermometer and electric bulbs,” as if working in the lab were a prayer that promised illumination—“alone, absorbed, [and] contemptuous of academic success and of popular classes,” he knew all about material forces, but he was blind to the vital force that created all others. Accustomed to the “beautiful dullness of long labors,” he remained “illimitably ignorant” of literature, art, and music. He believed that unerring techniques in experimentation, impartial observations, and exquisitely minute calculations would bring progress—a steady march toward the truth. He chose the highest calling in the world because he was “intensely religious—so religious that he will not accept quarter-truths, because they are an insult to his faith.” He was “so devoted to Pure Science . . . that he would rather have people die by the right therapy than be cured by the wrong. Having built a shrine for humanity, he wanted to kick out of it all mere human beings.” This autocratic figure, brilliantly insane and tyrannically honest, embodied the cult of science and objectivity.

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Carl Linnaeus, Erasmus Darwin and Anna Seward: Botanical Poetry and Female Education

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Discriminating Evidence: Closeness and Distance in Natural and Civil Histories of the Caribbean

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2014

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Enlightenment ideas of the “the Great Map of Mankind” established relationships between historical and geographical distance which provided the problematic for eighteenth-century natural and civil histories. This raised issues of evidence for writing such histories that were particularly acute in the Caribbean, where natural history was—via the movement and transplantation of plants, animals and peoples—always a matter of “civil” history; and where the question of what (or who) was “civil” (or civilized) was addressed via discussions of the boundary between humanity and nature. It is shown that how these questions were asked provoked the use of an array of evidence that varied in its management of the relationships of proximity and distance: including travellers’ tales, eyewitness observations, classical authors and philosophical speculation. The epistemological disjunctures that this evidence brought with it meant that the questions that were opened up could not be closed down.

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Imperial Designs: Botanical Illustration and the British Botanic Empire

Cited by 7 publications

References 15 publications

A Historical Atlas of Objectivity

A Historical Atlas of Objectivity

Carl Linnaeus, Erasmus Darwin and Anna Seward: Botanical Poetry and Female Education

Discriminating Evidence: Closeness and Distance in Natural and Civil Histories of the Caribbean

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