The French botanist Michel Adanson spent five years in pre-colonial Senegal in the 1750s, under the auspices of the Compagnie des Indes, collecting and cultivating African plants and mapping the landscape and natural […]
POSTPONED: Anthony Grafton's talk scheduled for February 9th 4-6PM has been postponed to Spring Quarter. More information will be provided in the future.
“A Global Enlightenment: Western Progress and Chinese Science.” The idea of progress frames our modern understanding of understanding itself. It offers a historical account of the development of knowledge in […]
