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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Joseph Banks"”.
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The role of Sir Joseph Banks, K.B., P.R.S., in the promotion and development of Lincolnshire canals and navigations
Sir Joseph Banks, K.B., P.R.S., was Lincolnshire's foremost figure of the late 18th. century and his influence within the county was such that few public works were undertaken with which he was not connected. Included in these public works were canal and navigation promotions and major works of …
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Managing Nature in the Age of Enlightenment: The Practice of Natural History in Britain, 1760-1820
… historians of the late eighteenth century, Joseph Banks (1743–1820), Thomas Pennant (1726–98) and Gilbert White (1720–93), this dissertation examines the integration of printed books into the practice of natural history. Although there has been significant work on the development of …
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THE COLTMANS OF HAGNABY, LINCOLNSHIRE. A Study of Minor Landed Gentry
… Coltman’s correspondence with his patron Sir Joseph Banks was the bedrock upon which this research was based, and revealed their feud, which demonstrated the integrity of Coltman in the face of interference from Banks. Decisions taken during his long tenure of the Bench reveal a man of …
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“Horatio Dawn” and “Invisibly somewhere between the two clauses”
… upon and changed) “influenced the attitudes of Joseph Banks, Matthew Flinders and the early European settlers a century later; and over the years [Dampier’s] reservations found their way into school texts and informed the attitudes of generations [in Australia]” (ix). This view of the Australian …