9781526145147 - CH07 - Marples.pdf

• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Manchester University Press 2019

This chapter argues for the significant role played by Irish-based medics as collectors and communicators of natural history in the period 1680–1750. It demonstrates that the relative isolation of practitioners in Ireland meant that their findings could sometimes be seen by those elsewhere as carryi...