James Delbourgo
Biographic Data
| ID | 764787 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Delbourgo |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Delbourgo |
| SIGNATURE | DELBOURGO J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3037-8085 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 129 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Commentary: Collect or Die
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The knowing world: A new global history of science
This article proposes a new global approach to the history of science centered on questions of geopolitics, historical consciousness, and cultural identity. Arguing that the field is now at a crossroads between its longstanding focus on the history of the natural sciences in the Western world, and the prospect of some form of worldwide history of science, the article describes a new undergraduate lecture course, designed by the author and taught …
Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum
In 1759 the British Museum opened its doors to the public—the first free national museum in the world. James Delbourgo recounts the story behind its creation through the life of Hans Sloane, a controversial luminary with an insatiable ambition to pit universal knowledge against superstition and few curbs on his passion for collecting the world
The Newtonian slave body: Racial enlightenment in the Atlantic World
This essay examines an influential treatise on the causes of African skin color published by the Virginia-born physician John Mitchell in the Royal Society's Philosophical Transactions in 1744. Instead of charting Mitchell's position in the development of eighteenth-century thinking about human variation – the preoccupation of many intellectual genealogies of race – the essay links Mitchell's account to specific period practices in the natural sc…
Listing People
Historians and commentators have long discussed tensions between specialist and lay expertise in the making of scientific knowledge. Such accounts have often described quarrels over the distribution of expertise in nineteenth-century "popular" and imperial sciences. The "crowdsourcing" of science on a global scale, however, arguably began in the early modern era. This essay examines the lists of specimen suppliers, the artifacts of a worldwide co…
Divers Things: Collecting the World under Water
I do not pretend to have been to bottom of sea.Robert Boyle, 1670MATTER OUT OF PLACEConsider following object as shown in an early eighteenth-century engraving (Figure 1) . It is a piece of wood - not a highly worked thing, not ingeniously wrought, though it is an artefact of human labour rather than a natural body. Or is it? In engraving, piece of wood disappears: it is visible towards bottom of image, a sober pointed stump, but it is quickly su…
Sir Hans Sloane's Milk Chocolate and the Whole History of the Cacao
This essay explores the interpenetration of the botanical and the human in Hans Sloane's engagement with cacao as a species and chocolate as a commodity, in relation to his late seventeenth-century voyage to Jamaica, and subsequent claims that he invented milk chocolate. How, it is asked, did Sloane's natural history profit from its engagement with African slavery, and upon what techniques did it depend for its authoritative depiction of plant sp…
Gardens of life and death
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Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America
Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America Neil Safier Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2008 xviii+387 pp., ISBN: 978-0-226-73355-5 ($45.00 hardback) How to write the his
The Electric Machine in the American Garden
As moral machinery, generators found a home in the American garden long before writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne described shrieking locomotives shattering the edenic peace of a pastoral civilization. This chapter begins by the French naturalist Charles Sonnini nicely stages a common metropolitan view of resistance to enlightenment in the periphery, in which European demonstrators are threatened as unwelcome sorcerers by a hostile superstitious…
When the Printer Met the Virtuoso
When the Printer Met the Virtuoso James Delbourgo (bio) J. A. Leo Lemay . The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Volume I: Journalist, 1706–1730. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. 568 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $39.95; and The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Volume II: Printer and Publisher, 1730–1747. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 2006. 664 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $39.95. In June 1725, on tour in Enlight…
Science and Empire in the Atlantic World
Table of Contents Introduction: The Far Side of the Ocean James Delbourgo and Nicholas Dew (McGill University) Part One: Networks and Circulations 1. Controlling Knowledge: Navigation, Cartography, and Secrecy in the Early Modern Spanish Atlantic Alison Sandman (James Madison University) 2. The Geography of Precision in the French Atlantic World Nicholas Dew (McGill University) 3. Circulations: Benjamin Franklin's Atlantic as Medium and Message J…
Essay Review: Leviathan and the Atlantic: The Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures: Empire, Travel, Modernity
Common Sense, Useful Knowledge, and Matters of Fact in the Late Enlightenment: The Transatlantic Career of Perkins's Tractors
James Delbourgo, Common Sense, Useful Knowledge, and Matters of Fact in the Late Enlightenment: The Transatlantic Career of Perkins's Tractors, The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 61, No. 4 (Oct., 2004), pp. 643-684
How to Write the History of the New World: Historiographies, Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World (review)
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History - Volume 3, Number 2, Fall 2002
Science and Empire in the Atlantic World
Table of Contents Introduction: The Far Side of the Ocean James Delbourgo and Nicholas Dew (McGill University) Part One: Networks and Circulations 1. Controlling Knowledge: Navigation, Cartography, and Secrecy in the Early Modern Spanish Atlantic Alison Sandman (James Madison University) 2. The Geography of Precision in the French Atlantic World Nicholas Dew (McGill University) 3. Circulations: Benjamin Franklin's Atlantic as Medium and Message J…
Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum
In 1759 the British Museum opened its doors to the public—the first free national museum in the world. James Delbourgo recounts the story behind its creation through the life of Hans Sloane, a controversial luminary with an insatiable ambition to pit universal knowledge against superstition and few curbs on his passion for collecting the world
The Newtonian slave body: Racial enlightenment in the Atlantic World
This essay examines an influential treatise on the causes of African skin color published by the Virginia-born physician John Mitchell in the Royal Society's Philosophical Transactions in 1744. Instead of charting Mitchell's position in the development of eighteenth-century thinking about human variation – the preoccupation of many intellectual genealogies of race – the essay links Mitchell's account to specific period practices in the natural sc…
The knowing world: A new global history of science
This article proposes a new global approach to the history of science centered on questions of geopolitics, historical consciousness, and cultural identity. Arguing that the field is now at a crossroads between its longstanding focus on the history of the natural sciences in the Western world, and the prospect of some form of worldwide history of science, the article describes a new undergraduate lecture course, designed by the author and taught …
Listing People
Historians and commentators have long discussed tensions between specialist and lay expertise in the making of scientific knowledge. Such accounts have often described quarrels over the distribution of expertise in nineteenth-century "popular" and imperial sciences. The "crowdsourcing" of science on a global scale, however, arguably began in the early modern era. This essay examines the lists of specimen suppliers, the artifacts of a worldwide co…
Divers Things: Collecting the World under Water
I do not pretend to have been to bottom of sea.Robert Boyle, 1670MATTER OUT OF PLACEConsider following object as shown in an early eighteenth-century engraving (Figure 1) . It is a piece of wood - not a highly worked thing, not ingeniously wrought, though it is an artefact of human labour rather than a natural body. Or is it? In engraving, piece of wood disappears: it is visible towards bottom of image, a sober pointed stump, but it is quickly su…
Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America
Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America Neil Safier Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2008 xviii+387 pp., ISBN: 978-0-226-73355-5 ($45.00 hardback) How to write the his
Commentary: Collect or Die
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
When the Printer Met the Virtuoso
When the Printer Met the Virtuoso James Delbourgo (bio) J. A. Leo Lemay . The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Volume I: Journalist, 1706–1730. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. 568 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $39.95; and The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Volume II: Printer and Publisher, 1730–1747. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 2006. 664 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $39.95. In June 1725, on tour in Enlight…
How to Write the History of the New World: Historiographies, Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World (review)
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History - Volume 3, Number 2, Fall 2002
Common Sense, Useful Knowledge, and Matters of Fact in the Late Enlightenment: The Transatlantic Career of Perkins's Tractors
James Delbourgo, Common Sense, Useful Knowledge, and Matters of Fact in the Late Enlightenment: The Transatlantic Career of Perkins's Tractors, The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 61, No. 4 (Oct., 2004), pp. 643-684
Essay Review: Leviathan and the Atlantic: The Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures: Empire, Travel, Modernity
The Electric Machine in the American Garden
As moral machinery, generators found a home in the American garden long before writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne described shrieking locomotives shattering the edenic peace of a pastoral civilization. This chapter begins by the French naturalist Charles Sonnini nicely stages a common metropolitan view of resistance to enlightenment in the periphery, in which European demonstrators are threatened as unwelcome sorcerers by a hostile superstitious…
When the Printer Met the Virtuoso
When the Printer Met the Virtuoso James Delbourgo (bio) J. A. Leo Lemay . The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Volume I: Journalist, 1706–1730. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. 568 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $39.95; and The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Volume II: Printer and Publisher, 1730–1747. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 2006. 664 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $39.95. In June 1725, on tour in Enlight…
Science and Empire in the Atlantic World
Table of Contents Introduction: The Far Side of the Ocean James Delbourgo and Nicholas Dew (McGill University) Part One: Networks and Circulations 1. Controlling Knowledge: Navigation, Cartography, and Secrecy in the Early Modern Spanish Atlantic Alison Sandman (James Madison University) 2. The Geography of Precision in the French Atlantic World Nicholas Dew (McGill University) 3. Circulations: Benjamin Franklin's Atlantic as Medium and Message J…
Science
Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America
Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America Neil Safier Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2008 xviii+387 pp., ISBN: 978-0-226-73355-5 ($45.00 hardback) How to write the his
Gardens of life and death
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Divers Things: Collecting the World under Water
I do not pretend to have been to bottom of sea.Robert Boyle, 1670MATTER OUT OF PLACEConsider following object as shown in an early eighteenth-century engraving (Figure 1) . It is a piece of wood - not a highly worked thing, not ingeniously wrought, though it is an artefact of human labour rather than a natural body. Or is it? In engraving, piece of wood disappears: it is visible towards bottom of image, a sober pointed stump, but it is quickly su…
Sir Hans Sloane's Milk Chocolate and the Whole History of the Cacao
This essay explores the interpenetration of the botanical and the human in Hans Sloane's engagement with cacao as a species and chocolate as a commodity, in relation to his late seventeenth-century voyage to Jamaica, and subsequent claims that he invented milk chocolate. How, it is asked, did Sloane's natural history profit from its engagement with African slavery, and upon what techniques did it depend for its authoritative depiction of plant sp…
The Newtonian slave body: Racial enlightenment in the Atlantic World
This essay examines an influential treatise on the causes of African skin color published by the Virginia-born physician John Mitchell in the Royal Society's Philosophical Transactions in 1744. Instead of charting Mitchell's position in the development of eighteenth-century thinking about human variation – the preoccupation of many intellectual genealogies of race – the essay links Mitchell's account to specific period practices in the natural sc…
Listing People
Historians and commentators have long discussed tensions between specialist and lay expertise in the making of scientific knowledge. Such accounts have often described quarrels over the distribution of expertise in nineteenth-century "popular" and imperial sciences. The "crowdsourcing" of science on a global scale, however, arguably began in the early modern era. This essay examines the lists of specimen suppliers, the artifacts of a worldwide co…
Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum
In 1759 the British Museum opened its doors to the public—the first free national museum in the world. James Delbourgo recounts the story behind its creation through the life of Hans Sloane, a controversial luminary with an insatiable ambition to pit universal knowledge against superstition and few curbs on his passion for collecting the world
Commentary: Collect or Die
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The knowing world: A new global history of science
This article proposes a new global approach to the history of science centered on questions of geopolitics, historical consciousness, and cultural identity. Arguing that the field is now at a crossroads between its longstanding focus on the history of the natural sciences in the Western world, and the prospect of some form of worldwide history of science, the article describes a new undergraduate lecture course, designed by the author and taught …
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