Lister went to Paris as the physician to Lord Portland's embassy to Paris and left this account of the city and its scientific life. The Louvre, Colbert's library, various cabinets of curiosity, food and wine, gardens, conversations with M. Dacier on the circulation of blood, as well as other places and events are detailed in this interesting travelogue with a scientific / medical bent. The plates include engravings of American species of shells and millipedes seen in Tournefort's collection."--B&L Rootenberg.
Excerpt from A Journey to Paris in the Year 1698 But why do you trouble us with a Journey to Park, a place lo well known to every body here? For very good Reafon, to fpare the often telling my Tale at my return. But we know al ready all you can fay, or can read it 'in the Prefezzt Stat-3 of France, and Defiriptiqn of Paris 5 two Books to be had in every Sh0p in Londons 'tis right, fo you may; and I advife you not to negleet them, 'if you have a mind to Judge well of the Grandeur of the Court of France, and. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
The central subject of this book is the status of singular experiences in the making of natural knowledge at the Royal Society of London in the eighteenth century. It makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the importance of the reporting and display of extraordinary phenomena at the Royal Society in this period, and shows that the success of these practices was largely based on their multiple roles within the Society, where singular experiences not only promoted natural historical and medical knowledge but also played a social and epistemological role. However, singular experiences were problematic in terms of authentication and the book reveals how eighteenth-century literary satires made the Royal Society an easy and favoured target for their interest in them. The book demonstrates the variety and intricacy of elements involved in the making and circulation of natural knowledge in the period. It provides an interdisciplinary and innovative approach to the place of the singular in one of the oldest and most import scientific institutions in the world.
