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SUMMARY:The hand of the naturalist: Charles Plumier\, images and overseas 
 natural history in late-17th-century France - José Beltrán (European Uni
 versity Institute\, Florence)
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CONTACT:Margaret Carlyle
DESCRIPTION:At his death in 1704\, Father Charles Plumier – Minim friar\
 , accomplished draftsman\, and Royal Botanist to King Louis XIV of France 
 – left more than forty volumes of drawings and descriptions of the Ameri
 can plants and animals that he had observed during his three journeys to t
 he West Indies. Only a little part of this work was printed\, mainly by th
 e Royal Press and under the form of lavishly illustrated folios serving th
 e self-celebratory purposes of the monarchy. This paper aims at exploring 
 how images of nature were translated from manuscript to printed media\, in
 terrogating the extent to which the printed milieu imposed certain formal 
 characteristics on them. The involvement of Plumier in most of the stages 
 of his images' printing can be traced even in the ways in which visual inf
 ormation was placed on the page. Rather than being an example of a pervasi
 ve concern for credit in the history of science\, such a presence of the a
 uthor in the printing of his images reveals his struggles and negotiations
  to succeed in what is still among the main goals of the scholar today: ge
 tting his work printed.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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