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SUMMARY:Piety\, diligence and learning: knowledge of American naturalia in
  Abraham Hill's commonplace books - Katrina Maydom (Department of History 
 and Philosophy of Science)
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CONTACT:Edwin Rose
DESCRIPTION:How was knowledge of American flora constructed in early moder
 n England? Influenced by a commitment to benefit the commonwealth and bett
 er understand God's creation\, Abraham Hill (1633–1721) drew on classica
 l and contemporary writers and reported experience to develop his knowledg
 e of _materia medica_ new to England. As a merchant\, founding Fellow of t
 he Royal Society and a Commissioner of the Board of Trade and Plantations\
 , Hill occupied a unique position to draw on extant and commissioned sourc
 es of information about _naturalia_ from the English colonies. By examinin
 g his ten volumes of little-studied commonplace books\, we can gain signif
 icant insights into how he investigated nature and negotiated different au
 thorities' knowledge claims to understand the properties of 'new world' pl
 ants.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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