Joseph Banks and the English Enlightenment: Useful Knowledge and Polite Culture by John Gascoigne

Joseph Banks and the English Enlightenment: Useful Knowledge and Polite Culture

John Gascoigne

336 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

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Joseph Banks's name is attached to various plant species around the world; he was President of the Royal Society, a Privy Councillor and adviser to the English government on a range of scientific and imperial issues. He was a driving force in the ...

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