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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"William Dampier"”.
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“Horatio Dawn” and “Invisibly somewhere between the two clauses”
… the figure of the pirate, scientist and explorer William Dampier and his “discovery” of Australia. This imaginary work examines the meeting of British people in the Enlightenment period with Aboriginal people and, in doing so, dramatises the complexities of first contact and its after-effects in …
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The Nature of the Wind: Myth, Fact, and Faith in the Development of Wind Knowledge in Early Modern England
<p>Historically, the wind has functioned in multiple capacities, both physically and symbolically. The following study explores the ways in which natural history, myth and folklore, craft knowledge, and religion contributed to a growing body of knowledge about the wind at a moment in British …