Measuring the marvelous: Science and the exotic in William Dampier

Eighteenth-Century Life

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 45-57

  Barnes, Geraldine ^a   Mitchell, Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOTANY; CENTRAL AMERICA; HISTORY; PACIFIC OCEAN; SCIENCE; TRAVEL; UNITED KINGDOM;

BOTANY; CARIBBEAN REGION; GREAT BRITAIN; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; NATURAL HISTORY; PACIFIC OCEAN; SCIENCE; TRAVEL;

EID: 33947516835     PISSN: 00982601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/00982601-26-3-45     Document Type: Article

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