Itineraries of Atlantic science: New questions, new approaches, new directions

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Notes

1. Pimentel, Rinoceronte.

2. On the intertwined histories of science and places see Livingstone, Putting Science in its Place, and Withers, Placing the Enlightenment. On approaches to science in the Atlantic world with regards to Creole knowledge, see Delbourgo, A Most Amazing Scene; Bauer, Cultural Geography; and Delbourgo and Dew, Science and Empire.

3. Barrera-Osorio, Experiencing Nature; Portuondo, Secret Science; Cañizares-Esguerra, How to Write the History ; Cañizares-Esguerra, Nature, Empire, and Nation; and Bleichmar et al., Science in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires.

4. Hsia, Sojourners; Smith and Schmidt, Making Knowledge; Cook, Matters of Exchange; and Smith and Findlen, Merchants and Marvels.

5. Schaffer et al., The Brokered World; Safier, Measuring the New World; and Raj, Relocating Modern Science.

6. Delbourgo, “Science.”

7. See, for example, Cook, Matters of Exchange, and Smith and Findlen, Merchants and Marvels.

8. The Atlantic seminar at Harvard is supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The publication of this special issue of Atlantic Studies is neither sponsored nor supported in any way by the Mellon Foundation or the Harvard Atlantic Seminar. Bailyn has recently announced that the seminar in its original form will be ending, even as he has reaffirmed that Atlantic history's “importance as one of the major regional developments in world history” goes largely unquestioned today.

9. This episode is reported in Condamine, Journal du voyage, 104.