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Each ses sion focuses on broad themes in the history of science and knowledge, bring ing together diverse approaches, methodologies and chronologies. The series is open to international scholars and broad collaboration between discipli nary fields.\nAll seminars are held online on Zoom:  (https://unipd.zoom.us /j/85357882609) (https://unipd.zoom.us/j/85357882609)https://unipd.zoom.us/ j/85357882609 (https://unipd.zoom.us/j/85357882609)\nStreaming:  (index.php /it/attivita/eventi-siss/%3Ca%20href=)//www.youtube.com/@siss-societaitalia nadistor9115>"> (https://www.youtube.com/)https://www.youtube.com/ (h ttps://www.youtube.com/)@siss-societaitalianadistor9115\nInformation:  (mai lto:info@societastoriadellascienza.it) (mailto:info@societastoriadellascien za.it)Questo indirizzo email è protetto dagli spambots. 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Between the late fifteenth and late nineteenth ce nturies, almost every traveller sailing between Asia and Europe spent time at the Cape of Good Hope. Often described as the "Tavern of the Two Seas," the early modern Cape was a bustling hub of disparate, interacting cultures of knowledge. Indigenous Khoekhoen populations, European travellers, Dutch settlers, and enslaved East Africans, South Asians, and Southeast Asians b rought diverse cosmologies to the southern tip of Africa, producing new, hy bridised understandings of natures and humans. In May 1685, an embassy of F rench Jesuits destined for Siam and China disembarked at the Cape, where th ey built a temporary astronomical observatory in the Dutch East India Compa ny's Garden. The travelling missionaries documented their interactions with the Khoekhoen, translating southern African conceptions of the heavens and local plants and animals for European readers. The French Jesuits, familia r with Chinese cultures of knowledge from their fellow missionaries, made s ense of unfamiliar African knowledges through the lens of Asian sciences. B y examining the recrafting of Asian knowledges at the Cape Colony, this pap er explores southern Africa's crucial importance in the early modern global isation of several natural knowledges. It seeks both to cement southern Afr ica's crucially important place in the history of the early modern sciences and explore the ways in which "nature" has been deployed to write out sout hern African knowledges from global histories of science.\n\nBio: Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh is the Lumley Research Fellow in History at Magdalene Col lege and a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow in the Faculty of History a t the University of Cambridge. His PhD, "Globalising China," completed in 2 023 in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge, ex amined how the Manchu conquest of China transformed politics and the scienc es across early modern Eurasia. Gianamar's work has been published and is f orthcoming in journals including Isis, History Workshop Journal, the Journa l of the History of Ideas, and the Journal for the History of Knowledge. Gi anamar has been a Freer Prize Fellow of the Royal Institution, and a visiti ng fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and the Descartes Centre in Utrecht.\n\nMorgana Lisi (University of Turin),  Whose scientific authority? Taxonomic disputes and local knowledge in the Iberian Enlightenment botany\n\nThe late eighteenth-century Bourbon scienti fic policies were mainly aimed at exploring the territories of the Spanish monarchy to define an avant-garde mapping of the profitable resources that could have been commercialised in medicinal, goods, and luxury markets. Fin anced by the Crown, the young botanists Hipólito Ruiz and José Pavón explor ed the nature of the Viceroyalty of Peru and Chile between 1777 and 1788, o bserving, naming, collecting, and cataloguing endemic species according to the Linnean system of classification. The majority of the specimens collect ed during the expedition are now preserved at the Herbarium (MA) of the Roy al Botanical Garden of Madrid. However, some of the plants determined by Ru iz and Pavón had already been described by Creole naturalists who previousl y studied the same territory. By analysing the cases of quillay (Quillaja s aponaria Molina) and araucaria (Araucaria araucana (Molina) K.Koch), this c ontribution tries to shed light on – a part of – the epistemic implications of the scientific expeditions and on the production of knowledge that aros e from the disputes ensued by the clashes of different scientific authoriti es that studied the same subject simultaneously. The aim is to enrich conte mporary historiography with ideas and actors marginally considered by the t raditional narrative. Indeed, these actors have also participated in constr ucting Enlightenment botany, creating an Atlantic dialogue between the loca l and the global dimensions by conveying natural knowledge of distant geogr aphies into the European cultural horizons.\n\n\nBio: Morgana Lisi is a PhD Candidate in Global History of Empires at the University of Turin, Italy. Her research interests include cultural history, the history of science, an d the history of knowledge in the early modern Iberian world. She authored various essays on Juan Ignacio Molina's thinking and scientific contributio n, and she is currently exploring the process of epistemological transforma tion of Natural History in the eighteenth-century Spanish monarchy, focusin g on the studies by Creole naturalists in the province of Chile.\n\n X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

 

The Italian Society for the History of Science / Società Italiana di Storia della Scienza (SISS) is pleased to announce a new Semina r Series:

SISS Meets Early Caree rs

The series is conceived as an informal place for early c areer scholars to discuss their research, present, future and past. Each se ssion focuses on broad themes in the history of science and knowledge, brin ging together diverse approaches, methodologies and chronologies. The serie s is open to international scholars and broad collaboration between discipl inary fields.

All seminars are held online on Zoom: https://unipd.zoom.us/j/85357882609

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Organizer o f the first series: Dr Lavinia Maddaluno (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) .

Session 3
17th May 2024
(5-6 .30pm)
Global Knowledge(s)


Chair: Dario Tessicini (University of Genova)

Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh (Cambridg e University), The Western Part of the East Indies? Knowledge and G lobalizations in the Early Modern Cape of Good Hope

Morgana Lisi (University of Turin), Whose scientific authority? Taxonomic d isputes and local knowledge in the Iberian Enlightenment botany

Abstracts and bios
Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh (Cambridge Univ ersity), The Western Part of the East Indies? Knowledge and Globalizat ions in the Early Modern Cape of Good Hope

Where does southern Africa fit within global histories of the sciences? Between the late fifteenth an d late nineteenth centuries, almost every traveller sailing between Asia an d Europe spent time at the Cape of Good Hope. Often described as the "Taver n of the Two Seas," the early modern Cape was a bustling hub of disparate, interacting cultures of knowledge. Indigenous Khoekhoen populations, Europe an travellers, Dutch settlers, and enslaved East Africans, South Asians, an d Southeast Asians brought diverse cosmologies to the southern tip of Afric a, producing new, hybridised understandings of natures and humans. In May 1 685, an embassy of French Jesuits destined for Siam and China disembarked a t the Cape, where they built a temporary astronomical observatory in the Du tch East India Company's Garden. The travelling missionaries documented the ir interactions with the Khoekhoen, translating southern African conception s of the heavens and local plants and animals for European readers. The Fre nch Jesuits, familiar with Chinese cultures of knowledge from their fellow missionaries, made sense of unfamiliar African knowledges through the lens of Asian sciences. By examining the recrafting of Asian knowledges at the C ape Colony, this paper explores southern Africa's crucial importance in the early modern globalisation of several natural knowledges. It seeks both to cement southern Africa's crucially important place in the history of the e arly modern sciences and explore the ways in which "nature" has been deploy ed to write out southern African knowledges from global histories of scienc e.


Bio: Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh is the Lumley Research Fello w in History at Magdalene College and a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fello w in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge. His PhD, "Globa lising China," completed in 2023 in the Department of History and Philosoph y of Science at Cambridge, examined how the Manchu conquest of China transf ormed politics and the sciences across early modern Eurasia. Gianamar's wor k has been published and is forthcoming in journals including Isis, History Workshop Journal, the Journal of the History of Ideas, and the Journal for the History of Knowledge. Gianamar has been a Freer Prize Fellow of the Ro yal Institution, and a visiting fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and the Descartes Centre in Utrecht.


Morgana Lisi (University of Turin), Whose scientific authority? Tax onomic disputes and local knowledge in the Iberian Enlightenment botany

The late eighteenth-century Bourbon scientific policies were mainly aimed at exploring the territories of the Spanish monarchy to define an av ant-garde mapping of the profitable resources that could have been commerci alised in medicinal, goods, and luxury markets. Financed by the Crown, the young botanists Hipólito Ruiz and José Pavón explored the nature of the Vic eroyalty of Peru and Chile between 1777 and 1788, observing, naming, collec ting, and cataloguing endemic species according to the Linnean system of cl assification. The majority of the specimens collected during the expedition are now preserved at the Herbarium (MA) of the Royal Botanical Garden of M adrid. However, some of the plants determined by Ruiz and Pavón had already been described by Creole naturalists who previously studied the same terri tory. By analysing the cases of quillay (Quillaja saponaria Molina) and ara ucaria (Araucaria araucana (Molina) K.Koch), this contribution tries to she d light on – a part of – the epistemic implications of the scientific exped itions and on the production of knowledge that arose from the disputes ensu ed by the clashes of different scientific authorities that studied the same subject simultaneously. The aim is to enrich contemporary historiography w ith ideas and actors marginally considered by the traditional narrative. In deed, these actors have also participated in constructing Enlightenment bot any, creating an Atlantic dialogue between the local and the global dimensi ons by conveying natural knowledge of distant geographies into the European cultural horizons.

Bio: Morgana Lisi is a PhD Candidate in Global History of Empires at the University of Turin, Italy. Her researc h interests include cultural history, the history of science, and the histo ry of knowledge in the early modern Iberian world. She authored various ess ays on Juan Ignacio Molina's thinking and scientific contribution, and she is currently exploring the process of epistemological transformation of Nat ural History in the eighteenth-century Spanish monarchy, focusing on the st udies by Creole naturalists in the province of Chile.

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