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Transatlantic Blues: A French Botanist Experiments with Indigo by Mary Terrall

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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 resources of the region.  He traversed this landscape with a variety of African interlocutors and guides, whose knowledge inevitably, if often invisibly, informed his collections, […]

History of Science Colloquium: Alexander Statman (UCLA, Law)

“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 space and time, with the natural sciences serving as both its mark and guarantor. This account has a distinctive history all of its own. Historians […]

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