Natural histories
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- Natural histories
- 'The Order of Things', Foucault: 18th C episteme obsessed with CLASSIFYING
- As opposed to 19th C episteme obsessed with HIDDEN DEPTHS.
- Discipline: distinction between philosophical vs descriptive approach (e.g. Linnaeus insisted concerned with ESSENTIAL NATURE, not just describing.
- Became more centralised: Linnaeus controlled GLOBAL network.
- Authority not restricted: wide range of activities
- Setting 1: Pharmacopeia: PLANT BASED, uni apothecaries and physic gardens.
- Gardenfashiobale, idyllic, paradise.
- Setting 2: Cabinets of curiosities: cult of collecting. Anyone could do, monsters.
- Social: Entertainment, recreation.Visitor's book --> part of collection itself
- Medical and religious: God has provided for us, medical uses revealed POWER of creator
- Habermas, 'Rise of the public sphere': literacy, public discussion, debate
- eg debate about plant sexuality
- Institutional bases: by late 18th C, dozens of academies (metropolitan and provincial).
- Cameralism: eg Linnaeus helped centralisation of mining and forestry colleges --> agricultural improvement and NATIONAL PROSPERITY
- 'The Order of Things', Foucault: 18th C episteme obsessed with CLASSIFYING
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