Author: Henry J. NoltiePublisher: Gantner Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Deals with the Botany of Robert Wight an early botanistdoing work in the orient. Important for Botany Libraries.
The Botany of Robert Wight
Author: Henry J. NoltiePublisher: Gantner Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Deals with the Botany of Robert Wight an early botanistdoing work in the orient. Important for Botany Libraries.
Contributions to the Botany of India
Author: Robert WightPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781377694825
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
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Icones Plantarum Indiae Orientalis, Or Figures of Indian Plants
Author: Robert WightIllustrations Of Indian Botany : Or Figures Illustrative Of Each Of The Natural Orders Of Indian Plants, Described In The Author's Prodromus Floræ Peninsulæ Indiæ Orientalis
Author: Robert WightRobert Wight and the Botanical Drawings of Rungiah & Govindoo: The life and work of Robert Wight
Author: Henry J. NoltiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Plants and Empire
Author: Londa SchiebingerPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674043278
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Plants seldom figure in the grand narratives of war, peace, or even everyday life yet they are often at the center of high intrigue. In the eighteenth century, epic scientific voyages were sponsored by European imperial powers to explore the natural riches of the New World, and uncover the botanical secrets of its people. Bioprospectors brought back medicines, luxuries, and staples for their king and country. Risking their lives to discover exotic plants, these daredevil explorers joined with their sponsors to create a global culture of botany. But some secrets were unearthed only to be lost again. In this moving account of the abuses of indigenous Caribbean people and African slaves, Schiebinger describes how slave women brewed the "peacock flower" into an abortifacient, to ensure that they would bear no children into oppression. Yet, impeded by trade winds of prevailing opinion, knowledge of West Indian abortifacients never flowed into Europe. A rich history of discovery and loss, Plants and Empire explores the movement, triumph, and extinction of knowledge in the course of encounters between Europeans and the Caribbean populations.
Robert Wight and the Botanical Drawings of Rungiah & Govindoo: Botanical drawings by Rungiah & Govindoo: the Wight collection
Author: Henry J. NoltiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botanical illustration
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The Botany of Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century
Author: Yota BatsakiPublisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
ISBN: 9780884024163
Category : Botanical specimens
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Botany of Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century brings together international scholars to examine: the figure of the botanical explorer; links between imperial ambition and the impulse to survey, map, and collect specimens in "new" territories; and relationships among botanical knowledge, self-representation, and material culture.
Robert Wight and the Botanical Drawings of Rungiah & Govindoo: Journeys in search of Robert Wight
Author: Henry J. NoltiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Forgotten Masters
Author: William DalrymplePublisher: Philip Wilson Publishers
ISBN: 1781301018
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
As the East India Company extended its sway across India in the late eighteenth century, many remarkable artworks were commissioned by Company officials from Indian painters who had previously worked for the Mughals. Published to coincide with the first UK exhibition of these masterworks at The Wallace Collection, this book celebrates the work of a series of extraordinary Indian artists, each with their own style and tastes and agency, all of whom worked for British patrons between the 1770s and the bloody end of the Mughal rule in 1857. Edited by writer and historian William Dalrymple, these hybrid paintings explore both the beauty of the Indian natural world and the social realities of the time in one hundred masterpieces, often of astonishing brilliance and originality. They shed light on a forgotten moment in Anglo-Indian history during which Indian artists responded to European influences while keeping intact their own artistic visions and styles. These artists represent the last phase of Indian artistic genius before the onset of the twin assaults - photography and the influence of western colonial art schools - ended an unbroken tradition of painting going back two thousand years. As these masterworks show, the greatest of these painters deserve to be remembered as among the most remarkable Indian artists of all time.