SCIENCE, AFRICA AND EUROPE, processing information and creating knowledge

: Lengwiler (M.), Penn (N.) & Harries (P.) eds.

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260pp., maps, hardback, London & New York, 2019

 

Contributions include:
"Peter Kolb and the Circulation of knowledge about the Cape of Good Hope" by Nigel Penn and Adrien Delmas
"A Naturalist's Career: Hinrich Lichtenstein (1780-1857)" by Sandra Näf-Gloor
"'Nothing but love for natural history and my desire to help your Museum'? Ludwig Kreb's transcontinental collecting partnership with Hinrich Lichtenstein" by Patrick Grogan
"The African Travels of Hans Schinz: biological transfer and the academisation and popularisation of (African) Botany in Zurich" by Dag Henrichsen

Martin Lengwiler is Professor in the Department of History at the University of Basel, Switzerland.
Nigel Penn is Professor in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town.
Patrick Harries was Professor of African History in the Department of History at the University of Basel, Switzerland.