A Time of Air and Place

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Notes

¹Sten Lindroth, ‘Linnaeus’, in Dictionary of Scientific Biography, 18 vols, edited by C.C. Gillespie (New York: Scribner's, 1970–1990), 8: 374–81; Lisbet Koerner, Linnaeus: Nature and Nation (Cambridge, MA, 1999), 57–81; Carl von Linné, Nemesis Divina, edited and translated by M.J. Petry (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2001); Carolus Linnaeus, Nemesis Divina, edited and translated by Eric Miller (Lanham, MD, 2002).

²Theo Verbeek, ‘From “Learned Ignorance” to Scepticism: Descartes and Calvinist Orthodoxy’, in Scepticism and Irreligion in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, edited by Richard H. Popkin and Arjo Vanderjagt (Leiden, 1993), 31–45; Ernestine Van der Wall, ‘Orthodoxy and Skepticism in the Early Dutch Enlightenment’, in Ibid., 122–41. Also, see Jonathan Israel, Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity, 1650–1750 (Oxford, 2001).

³William B. Jr Ashworth, Theories of the Earth, 1644–1830: The History of a Genre (Kansas City, KS, 1984); James Larson, Reason and Experience: The Representation of Nature in the Work of Carl von Linné (Berkeley, CA, 1971), 97; cf. Gunnar Eriksson, ‘Linnaeus the Botanist’, in Linnaeus: The Man and His Work, edited by Tore Frängsmyr (Berkeley, CA, 1983), 63–109 (pp. 85–88).

⁴Andrew Pyle, ‘Introduction’, A Defence of Natural and Revealed Religion: Being an Abridgement of the Sermons Preached at the Lecture Founded by Robert Boyle, 4 vols, edited by Gilbert Burnet (Bristol, UK, 2000), I, viii.

⁵The perspectives in J.C.D. Clark, ‘Providence, Predestination, and Progress: Or, Did the Enlightenment Fail?’, Albion 35 (2003), 559–89 will be important here.