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BL
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948997
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b703367
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Irving, Sarah, (Sarah Louise)
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| Title & Author
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Natural science and the origins of the British Empire /\ by Sarah Irving.
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| Publication Statement
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London :: Pickering & Chatto,, 2008.
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| Series Statement
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Empires in perspective ;; no. 5
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| Page. NO
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xiii, 183 pages ;; 25 cm.
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| ISBN
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185196889X
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: 9781851968893
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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'In a pure soil': Francis Bacon's empire of knowledge -- Restoring Eden in America: the Hartlib Circle's pansophical empire -- Robert Boyle's Protestant colonial project -- The Royal Society and the Atlantic world -- John Locke's language of empire -- Conclusion.
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| Abstract
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"Irving places seventeenth-century science in the context of England's colonization of the Atlantic world. She argues that men of science held a conception of empire which has been overlooked by scholars. This was the idea of man's original dominion over the earth. Endowed to Adam in the Garden of Eden, this mastery over the world consisted in his perfect knowledge of nature. In the Fall, however, Adam lost his omniscience and consequently his earthly empire." "Scientists, including Francis Bacon, Robert Boyle and John Locke, believed that it was England's task to restore man's dominion over nature. In this project, the Atlantic colonies were a repository of lost knowledge; a storehouse of information about climate, animals, plants and people. Bringing the history of early modern science to bear upon the intellectual origins of the British Empire, Irving investigates the way that England's colonial empire became tied to the redemptive project of restoring man's empire of knowledge."--BOOK JACKET.
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Bacon, Francis,1561-1626.
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Boyle, Robert,1627-1691.
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Hartlib, Samuel,ca. 1600-1662.
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Locke, John,1632-1704.
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Imperialism and science.
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Natural history-- History-- 17th century.
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Science-- History-- 17th century.
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Natural History-- history.
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15.50 general world history; history of great parts of the world, peoples, civilizations: general.
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30.01 history of the exact sciences.
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British colonies.
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Imperialism and science.
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Imperialism.
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Natural history.
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Naturvetenskap-- historia-- 1600-talet.
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Science.
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Great Britain, Colonies.
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Storbritannien, kolonier.
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
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| Dewey Classification
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509.17124109032
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| LC Classification
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Q125.I78 2008
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15.50bcl
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30.01bcl
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