Scientific instructions for travellersInternational conference8-9 October 2010Moore Institute Seminar Room (203)The development of inquiries, questionnaires, and directions for scientific travellers proliferated in the early modern period, ranging from the chorographers surveying particular places in Europe, to the Royal Society's queries for destinations around the world. The growth in this practice in eighteenth and nineteenth centuries... | Read on »

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