Empire and the Theology of Nature in the Cambridge Botanic Garden, 1760-1825
Empire and the Theology of Nature in the Cambridge Botanic Garden, 1760-1825
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帝国与剑桥植物园的自然神学，1760-1825 年
DOI：
10.1017/jbr.2023.10
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发表时间：
2023
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Rose E
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成立于1760年的剑桥植物园旨在通过收集来自地球仪各地的活植物来服务于大学的神学利益。探索花园的建设和布局，其全球网络，管理信息的方法，以及收集的可访问性在教授期间的托马斯马丁1762年和1825年之间，本文投下了新的光的动机成立和管理一个植物园在剑桥。它展示了大英帝国在美洲收缩并扩展到亚洲和太平洋地区时，通信结构是如何适应的，对物理花园中的物种进行了分类，后来在一系列出版的目录中进行了编目。它表明，对自然神学日益增长的兴趣将大学与不断扩张的大英帝国交织在一起，开发了一个旨在教育学生神圣的普罗维登斯对植物王国的影响的收藏。
Founded in 1760, the Cambridge Botanic Garden was designed to serve the theological interests of the university by developing a collection of living plants from across the globe. Exploring the construction and layout of the garden, its global network, methods of managing information, and the accessibility of the collection during the professorship of Thomas Martyn between 1762 and 1825, this article casts new light on the motivations for founding and managing a botanic garden in Cambridge. It shows how communication structures adapted as the British Empire contracted in the Americas and expanded into Asia and the Pacific, classifying species in the physical garden later inventoried in a series of published catalogues. It suggests that growing interests in natural theology intertwined the university with the expanding British Empire, developing a collection designed to educate students in the influence of divine providence on the vegetable kingdom.