"Peter Pindar," Joseph Banks, and the case against natural history.

From: Wordsworth Circle | Date: January 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

In 1663, Robert Hooke announced that the "business" of the newly chartered Royal Society was "to improve the knowledge of naturall things, and all useful Arts, Manufactures ... not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysics, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetorick, or Logick" (Smith 59). Accordingly, from the beginning, the Philosophical Transactions published by the Royal Society included much natural history--that is, empirical studies in the three traditional branches of zoology, botany, and geology. However, when Sir Joseph Banks became President in 1778, his friend and Royal Society ...

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