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SUMMARY:Books and/of botany within Hans Sloane's library collection - Alic
 e Wickenden (Faculty of English)
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DESCRIPTION:In this talk I discuss the place of botany within Hans Sloane'
 s library. Moving between _horti sicci_\, print\, and manuscript\, I explo
 re Sloane's presentation and storage of botanical collections within the l
 ibrary space and argue that the need to visually reproduce plants in print
 ed books led to a triangulation of shared material: the original specimen\
 , the engraved reproduction\, and the attempt to identify or describe thro
 ugh language. I then move to a discussion of John Ray's _Catalogus Plantar
 um Angliae et insularum adjacentium_ (1670\; 1677)\, comparing the annotat
 ions across the eight copies (of two editions) owned by Sloane and arguing
  that the value in the duplication of books within Sloane's library was af
 fected by the material existences of the individual copies. I conclude wit
 h a brief discussion of plant names in John Milton's _Paradise Lost_\, sho
 wing how the library space as conceptualised through the discussion of Slo
 ane can be extended metaphorically.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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