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The book analyses from a comparative perspective the exploration of territories, the histories of their inhabitants, and local natural environments during the long eighteenth century. The eleven chapters look at European science at home and abroad as well as at global scientific practices and the involvement of a great variety of local actors in the processes of mapping and recording. Dealing with landlocked territories with no colonies (like Switzerland) and places embedded in colonial networks, the book reveals multifarious entanglements connecting these territories.
Contributors are: Sarah Baumgartner, Simona Boscani Leoni, Stefanie Gänger, Meike Knittel, Francesco Luzzini, Jon Mathieu, Barbara Orland, Irina Podgorny, Chetan Singh, and Martin Stuber.
Contributors are: Sarah Baumgartner, Simona Boscani Leoni, Stefanie Gänger, Meike Knittel, Francesco Luzzini, Jon Mathieu, Barbara Orland, Irina Podgorny, Chetan Singh, and Martin Stuber.
Price: $158.00
Pages: 270
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Emergence of Natural History
Publication Date:
02 December 2021
ISBN: 9789004412460
Format: Hardcover
"Questa raccolta di saggi offre un ricco contributo alla storia dei processi di esplorazione e di scambio e accumulazione di conoscenze che hanno dato forma al sapere scientifico europeo in epoca moderna, con particolare riguardo alla fine del Settecento, un momento di accelerazione e infittimento di comunicazioni e spostamenti a livello globale."
---- Giulia Iannuzzi, in: Annali Recensioni Online VI, 2023/3
"Connecting territories unites ten authors in a comparative history of how people learned to survey land, its inhabitants and its products, from Spanish America to Switzerland, the Apennines to the Himalaya. […] the volume shows how local scientific practices became increasingly globally co-ordinated in the long eighteenth century."
---- Patrick Anthony, in: Archives of Natural History, November 2022, Vol. 49, No. 2: pp. 426-27.
---- Giulia Iannuzzi, in: Annali Recensioni Online VI, 2023/3
"Connecting territories unites ten authors in a comparative history of how people learned to survey land, its inhabitants and its products, from Spanish America to Switzerland, the Apennines to the Himalaya. […] the volume shows how local scientific practices became increasingly globally co-ordinated in the long eighteenth century."
---- Patrick Anthony, in: Archives of Natural History, November 2022, Vol. 49, No. 2: pp. 426-27.
Simona Boscani Leoni, Ph.D. (2003, EHESS Paris), is Swiss National Science Foundation-Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Bern and senior scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne. Most recently she edited “Unglaubliche Bergwunder”. Johann Jakob Scheuchzer und Graubünden. Ausgewählte Briefe, 1699–1707 (2019); an extended edition of this correspondence can be found online: https://hallernet.org.
Sarah Baumgartner, Ph.D. (2019, University of Bern) holds an MA in History and a BSc in Geography. Her research interests include the history of scientific societies of the eighteenth century and early modern agriculture.
Meike Knittel, Ph.D. (2018, University of Bern), is a postdoctoral researcher at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin and an associated researcher at the University of Bern’s Historical Institute. Her research focuses on natural history of collections and eighteenth-century botany.
Sarah Baumgartner, Ph.D. (2019, University of Bern) holds an MA in History and a BSc in Geography. Her research interests include the history of scientific societies of the eighteenth century and early modern agriculture.
Meike Knittel, Ph.D. (2018, University of Bern), is a postdoctoral researcher at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin and an associated researcher at the University of Bern’s Historical Institute. Her research focuses on natural history of collections and eighteenth-century botany.