French Botany in the Enlightenment

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Royal Instructions for Scientific Exploration. 15 The French Gardener Overseas.;. 33 The Voyage of La Perouse: Part 1, From Brest to Monterey Bay. 51 Part 2, From Monterey Bay to Botany Bay. 73 Adventures and Misadventures: The Bizarre Story of the Dupetit-Th9uars Brothers. 93 The Voyage of Entrecasteaux: Part 1, Genesis and Preparation. 107 Part 2, From Brest to Tasmania. 119 Part 3, New Caledonia to Ambon. 139 Part 4, Esperance Bay. 153 Part 5, Tasmania Revisisted. 161 Part 6, On to New Caledonia. 177 Part 7, Its Woeful End. ~. 189 Internment. 199 From Explorer to Closet Botanist. 209 Epilogue. 221 Bibliography. 227 General Index. 233 Plant Index. 237 Introduction-I INTRODUCTION he title of this book is meant to signal at the outset its confines, both its T inclusions and what is beyond its scope. This volume does not stand alone, neither in splendid nor terrifying isolation, but as the third volume in a trilogy meant to be a commentary on the botanophilia that captured the literate public in 18th-century France, the very time that botany was becoming established as a science independent from medicine and herbal ism. Even though the components of that phenomenon have been examined indi­ vidually by earlier scholars, a synthesis of them, founded upon a reliable command of the history of botany, has been wanting.

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