How to dissect an elephant : surgeons, clergymen, local informants and the production of knowledge at Fort St George, 1690-1730

Fort St George, Madras, on the Coromandel Coast of India, served as a key site for European natural philosophical knowledge production in the period 1690-1730. As a colonial port city at the centre of cosmopolitan networks of trade under the English East India Company, Fort St George can be consider...

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Main Author: Fleetwood, Lachlan Charles
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/46439