Seeking Natural Knowledge in Later 17th Century England
Robert Plot, the Ashmolean Museum, and the Oxford Philosophical Society
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 10 July 2025
- ISBN 9780198950332
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages352 pages
- Size 240x160x20 mm
- Weight 710 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 10 colour & 7 b/w halftones 627
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Short description:
A narrative description of the context of natural history study and collecting in later 17th century England. It is constructed around the biography of the central figure of Robert Plot, but with his activities placed in a broader European context.
MoreLong description:
Anthony Turner offers a view of the social and cultural context of the collecting of natural history in late 17th century England, constructed around the biography of Robert Plot. Seeking Natural Knowledge in Later 17th Century England seeks in particular to show the continuing intrinsic connection between chorography, antiquarianism, natural history and even, though to a lesser degree, applied mathematics, and the interest of such matters for the University of Oxford.
An introductory chapter places chorography in its European cosmological context before looking at details of its study — in both its antiquarian and practical aspects — in Early Modern England, and the methods by which it was pursued there. Parallels are drawn with similar activity in France and Germany.
In the following chapters, through an account of the work of Robert Plot, the way in which his writings established a new form of chorographical natural history investigation and writing is described, and how this work fed into, and in part provoked, the foundation of the Ashmolean Museum as a non-collegiate university institution in Oxford. Activity in the Museum during its early years is described, as is the work of the Philosophical Society that met within it and was closely associated. A final chapter describes the influence of Robert Plot and his successors up to the very early 18th century.
Seven appendices supply an essential documentary underpinning for the work, offering new material on the burial of Plot, a detailed bibliography of his works, and an account of his portraits, before completing Gunther's documentation of the Oxford Society and its activities by the publication of several documents concerning it that have hitherto remained in manuscript.
Table of Contents:
Preface
List of illustrations
From Cosmos to Parish
Robert Plot
The Ashmolean Museum
The Oxford Philosophical Society
Biographical Notes on Members and Correspondents of the Philosophical Society
Aftermath
Appendix 1: Concerning Robert Plot, deceased
Appendix 2: Bibliography of Robert Plot
Appendix 3: Bodleian Library Ms Ashmole 1813. Items omitted from this volume in the publication by R. T. Gunther, Early Science in Oxford, xii. Dr Plot and the correspondence of the Philosophical Society of Oxford, Oxford 1939
Appendix 4: Collections of the Oxford Philosophical Society
Appendix 5: Five letters from Maurice Wheeler to Edward Lhywd
Appendix 6: Portraits of Robert Plot
Appendix 7: Programmes of the extra-curricular lectures on mathematics and natural philosophy by David Gregory and John Keill
Appendix 8: Michael Burghers' engraving of the East entrance to the Ashmolean Musæum
Bibliography
Index
