The Resource Carl Peter Thunberg : botanist and physician : career-building across the oceans in the eighteenth century, Marie-Christine Skuncke
Carl Peter Thunberg : botanist and physician : career-building across the oceans in the eighteenth century, Marie-Christine Skuncke
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- The Swedish botanist and physician Carl Peter Thunberg, a pupil of Linnaeus, was the only European scientist who visited and published his observations of Tokugawa Japan in the eighteenth century. On his way to and from Japan, he visited territories in the Dutch colonial empire: the Cape Colony, Batavia (present- day Jakarta), and Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Following his return to Sweden, he made a spectacular career at the University of Uppsala. He published a ground-breaking work on Japanese plants, Flora Japonica (1784), and a travel account that was translated into several languages. In 1787 the Swedish king Gustav III, on Thunberg's initiative, founded a new Botanical Garden and a monumental building for natural history ✹ Linneanum, now the home of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS) ✹ as a gift to the university. Marie-Christine Skuncke reconstructs Thunberg's scientific career by exploring exchanges within the networks which he built in Europe, the Dutch colonies, and Tokugawa Japan. Drawing on a wide range of sources, this book is a study of social practices in natural history, in a global perspective.--
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- Carl Peter Thunberg : botanist and physician : career-building across the oceans in the eighteenth century
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- Carl Peter Thunberg
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- botanist and physician : career-building across the oceans in the eighteenth century
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- Marie-Christine Skuncke
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The Swedish botanist and physician Carl Peter Thunberg, a pupil of Linnaeus, was the only European scientist who visited and published his observations of Tokugawa Japan in the eighteenth century. On his way to and from Japan, he visited territories in the Dutch colonial empire: the Cape Colony, Batavia (present- day Jakarta), and Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Following his return to Sweden, he made a spectacular career at the University of Uppsala. He published a ground-breaking work on Japanese plants, Flora Japonica (1784), and a travel account that was translated into several languages. In 1787 the Swedish king Gustav III, on Thunberg's initiative, founded a new Botanical Garden and a monumental building for natural history ✹ Linneanum, now the home of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS) ✹ as a gift to the university. Marie-Christine Skuncke reconstructs Thunberg's scientific career by exploring exchanges within the networks which he built in Europe, the Dutch colonies, and Tokugawa Japan. Drawing on a wide range of sources, this book is a study of social practices in natural history, in a global perspective.--
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- Thunberg, Carl Peter
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- Carl Peter Thunberg : botanist and physician : career-building across the oceans in the eighteenth century, Marie-Christine Skuncke
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- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- 25 cm.
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- 376 pages
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- 9789198194807
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- (OCoLC)893029810
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- Carl Peter Thunberg : botanist and physician : career-building across the oceans in the eighteenth century, Marie-Christine Skuncke
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
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- rdacarrier.
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- text
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- rdacontent.
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- FIEb17868178
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Extent
- 376 pages
- Isbn
- 9789198194807
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (many color), facsimiles
- System control number
- (OCoLC)893029810
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