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Introduction: Rethinking Joseph Banks

Author(s) -

Simon Werrett

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

notes and records the royal society journal of the history of science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.19

H-Index - 18

eISSN - 1743-0178

pISSN - 0035-9149

DOI - 10.1098/rsnr.2018.0064

Subject(s) - georgian , variety (cybernetics) , naturalism , the arts , work (physics) , sociology , focus (optics) , political science , media studies , management , law , engineering , economics , philosophy , computer science , epistemology , mechanical engineering , linguistics , physics , optics , artificial intelligence

Following a series of workshops funded by AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council), the papers in this special issue provide new perspectives on the naturalist Sir Joseph Banks (1743–1820). Moving beyond a focus on Banks's work with Captain Cook's first voyage of exploration to the Pacific, the papers expand on, while challenging, views of Banks as a ‘centre of calculation’ and all-powerful agent of science and imperialism in Georgian Britain. Banks is shown to have relied on a variety of expert men and women as actors and audiences for botany, operating with more diversified agendas and practices than previous pictures of him have suggested.

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