HISTORY 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: History Of Longitude, Linnaean Taxonomy, Plants And Animals
24 Sep 2018
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History 1cc3: what was needed to give europeans and the neo-europeans the idea that the world could be fully-known, organized, and improved, perfection of navigation. Solving the longitude problem; royal navy"s desire to avoid accidents; scientific development: development of the means of collecting, labeling, storing. The linnaean system; providing a way of having a grand encyclopedia. Leverage for organizing materials: the quest for more living things. Crosby thesis: old world things to new world. Deliberate: early colonizers introduce old world plants & animals to the new. By chance: old world domestic animals and people convey diseases in new. By chance: movement of old world weeds and animals upsets new world. Deliberate: non-profit seeking movement of new world plants to the old. World; maize and potato: instrumental knowledge, imperial acquisitions of the last non-colonized regions. Sugar thesis: movement of an old world crop to new world with astonishing consequences for both old and new world.
