Colonial Botany
Subtitle: Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World
Contributors: Londa Schiebinger (Editor); Claudia Swan (Editor)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: July 17, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780812220094
Subjects: Botany & plant sciences; Science; History: World; Europe; History; Life Sciences - Botany; Renaissance; World - Colonial Studies; History / Renaissance; Europe - General
First sentence: In 1735 the Academie Royale des Sciences in Paris commissioned an expedition to the equatorial regions of South America to measure the length of a degree of meridian near the equator in order to determine the earth's size and shape.