Description: Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) was an internationally renowned botanist, a close friend and early supporter of Charles Darwin, and one of the first-and most successful-British men of science to become a full-time professional. He was also, Jim Endersby argues, the perfect embodiment of Victorian science. A vivid picture of the complex interrelationships of scientific work and scientific ideas, Imperial Nature gracefully uses one individual's career to illustrate the changing world of science in the Victorian era.By analyzing Hooker's career, Endersby offers vivid insights into the everyday activities of nineteenth-century naturalists, considering matters as diverse as botanical illustration and microscopy, classification, and specimen transportation and storage, to reveal what they actually did, how they earned a living, and what drove their scientific theories. What emerges is a rare glimpse of Victorian scientific practices in action. By focusing on science's material practices and one of its foremost practitioners, Endersby ably links concerns about empire, professionalism, and philosophical practices to the forging of a nineteenth-century scientific identity.
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EAN: 9780226207926
UPC: 9780226207926
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Book Title: Imperial Nature - Joseph Hooker and the Practices
Number of Pages: 448 Pages
Publication Name: Imperial Nature : Joseph Hooker and the Practices of Victorian Science
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Item Height: 1 in
Subject: Life Sciences / Botany, Environmentalists & Naturalists, History, Life Sciences / Biology
Publication Year: 2010
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 21 Oz
Subject Area: Science, Biography & Autobiography
Author: Jim Endersby
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
