The Material Cultures of Enlightenment Arts and Sciences (Hardcover)

List of illustrations.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction; Adriana Craciun and Simon Schaffer.- PART I: NATURAL CURIOSITIES.- 1. Essay: Handling objects in natural history collections; Mary Terrall.- 2. Exhibit: Curious work; Mary Brooks.- 3. Exhibit: The lives of Mrs Delaney's paper plants; Kim Sloan.- 4. Exhibit: A pathological pot; Samuel J.M.M. Alberti.- 5. Essay: The seeds of disaster: relics of La Perouse; Adriana Craciun.- PART II: TOOLS AND TRAVELS.- 6. Essay: A Bird in the hand, or, manufacturing credibility in the instruments of Enlightenment science; Richard Dunn.- 7. Exhibit: Mapping new spaces; Patricia Seed.- 8. Exhibit: By hand or by engine; Richard Dunn.- 9. Exhibit: The ship as object: the launch of the Queen Charlotte; James Davey.- 10. Exhibit: Instrument of controversy: two copies of the Nautical Almanac; Sophie Waring.- 11. Exhibit: The Navy's new clothes; Amy Miller.- 12. Essay: Unwrapping gods: illuminating encounters with gods, comets and missionaries; Maia Nuku.- PART III: ARTIFICIAL CURIOSITIES.- 13. Essay: Persons and things; Jonathan Lamb.- 14. Exhibit: The fabric of domestic life: rethinking the humble painted cloth; Tara Hamling.- 15. Exhibit: The Willdey telescope: instrument for fashion, learning and amusement; Alexi Baker.- 16. Exhibit: Cataloguing curiosities: Whitby's barkcloth book; Billie Lythberg.- 17. Exhibit: Art and things: Fragonard's colour box; Hannah Williams.- 18. Exhibit: Keep within compass; Katy Barrett.- 19. Exhibit: Perfected thing: a lay figure by Paul Huot; Jane Munro.- PART IV: EXOTIC GOODS.- 20. Essay: A home away from home: Sophie Magdalene's clockwork chinoiserie; Josefine Baark.- 21. Exhibit: The Chinese tallow tree: from asset in Asia to curse in Carolina; Charles Jarvis.- 22. Exhibit: Global connections: Punch, porcelain and maritime material culture; John McAleer.- 23. Exhibit: A damaged and discarded thing; Anne Gerritsen.- 24. Exhibit: Sarah Sophia Banks, Adam Afzelius and a coin from Sierra Leone; Catherine Eagleton.- 25. Exhibit: A Pacific macrocosm: Les Sauvages de la Mer Pacifique; Billie Lythberg.- 26. Exhibit: Columen vitae: pharmaceutical packaging 1750-1850; Jennifer Basford.- 27. Essay: Tropical lifestyles, luxury and the health of Britain's global power, 1793-1825; Jonathan Eacott.- PART V: WORLDS ON PAPER.- 28. Essay: Extra-illustrations: the order of the book and the fantasia of the library; Luisa Cale.- 29. Exhibit: Paperslips; Leanna McLaughlin.- 30. Exhibit: Advertising and print culture in the eighteenth century; Philippa Hubbard.- 31. Exhibit: Kitty Fisher: the commodification of celebrity; Faramerz Dabhoiwala.- 32. Exhibit: An admirable typology; Billie Lythberg, Maia Nuku and Amiria Salmond.- 33. Essay: Connoisseurship and the communication of anatomical knowledge: the case of William Cheselden's Osteographia (1733); Alexander Wragge-Morley.- Bibliography.- Index.-