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Opening the curiosity box : botanical images as sites of transformation for the scientific practices of annotation and display in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

Stewart, Karen (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2007-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis investigates the hidden narratives of South African botanical images made in the late seventeenth to eighteenth century. Plant collecting and image making was part of early modernist scientific ...