TY  - CHAP
AU  - Marples, Alice
AB  - 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 carrying greater weight and possessing greater novelty. Particular use is made of the correspondence of Sir Hans Sloane, president of the Royal Society, to demonstrate how processes of communication and collection could operate across large distances, especially between rural Ireland and London.
DO  - 10.7765/9781526145147
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1004960
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1135849578
KW  - Hans Sloane
KW  - Natural history
KW  - Communication
KW  - Correspondence
KW  - Royal Society
KW  - London
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/6bfb557a-085f-4b50-9cc1-23c36f436002/9781526145147 - CH07 - Marples.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25133
PB  - Manchester University Press
PP  - Manchester, UK
PY  - 2019
TI  - Chapter 7 Medical practitioners as collectors and communicators of natural history in Ireland, 1680–1750null
ER  - 
