Hanna Hodacs – författare

The name of Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) is inscribed in almost every flora and fauna published from the mid-eighteenth century onwards; in this respect he is virtually immortal. In this book a group of specialists argue for the need to re-centre Linnaean science and de-centre Linnaeus the man by exploring the ideas, practices and people connected to his taxonomic innovations.Contributors examine the various techniques, materials and methods that originated within the ‘Linnaean workshop’: paper technologies, publication strategies, and markets for specimens. Fresh analyses of the reception of Linnaeus’s work in Paris, Königsberg, Edinburgh and beyond offer a window on the local contexts of knowledge transfer, including new perspectives on the history of anthropology and stadial theory. The global implications and negotiated nature of these intellectual, social and material developments are further investigated in chapters tracing the experiences and encounters of Linnaean travellers in Africa, Latin America and South Asia.Through focusing on the circulation of Linnaean knowledge and placing it within the context of eighteenth-century globalization, authors provide innovative and important contributions to our understanding of the early modern history of science.

Goods from the East focuses on the fine product trade's first Global Age: how products were made, marketed and distributed between Asia and Europe between 1600 and 1800. It brings together established scholars as well as new, to provide a full comparative and connective study of this trade.

Goods from the East focuses on the fine product trade''s first Global Age: how products were made, marketed and distributed between Asia and Europe between 1600 and 1800. It brings together established scholars as well as new, to provide a full comparative and connective study of this trade.

This book links the trade of the Danish and Swedish East India companies to the British taste for tea, a Scandinavian craving for colourful Chinese silk textiles, import substitutions schemes and natural history in the eighteenth century.

This book links the trade of the Danish and Swedish East India companies to the British taste for tea, a Scandinavian craving for colourful Chinese silk textiles, import substitutions schemes and natural history in the eighteenth century.

Att Carl von Linné och hans lärjungar lade mycket tid och kraft på resor av olika slag är välkänt. Men vad drev resenärerna och varför var resandet så betydelsefullt inom 1700-talets vetenskapliga forskning? I Naturalhistoria på resande fot ger historikerna Hanna Hodacs och Kenneth Nyberg nya perspektiv på ämnesfältet naturalhistoria, embryot till biologins olika forskningsdiscipliner, och dess utveckling. Resorna handlade inte bara om forskning i syfte att vinna ny kunskap om naturen. Det var också längs vägarna som naturalhistoriker fick sin skolning; dikesrenar och skogbryn fungerade som klassrum och resorna var en form av utbildning. En resa erbjöd dessutom möjligheter till möten med andra vetenskapsmän, kontakter som var viktiga för den som ville göra karriär. Brev, resedagböcker och annat bevarat material från en lång rad personer i kretsen kring Linné ligger till grund för denna bok, som ger nya och fascinerande inblickar i 1700-talets vetenskapliga resande och dess drivkrafter.