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Studies of Skin Color in the Early Royal Society : Boyle, Cavendish, Swift

1st ed

London : Taylor and Francis, 2016

1 Online-Ressource (249 pages)

Englisch

Print version: Malcolmson, Cristina : Studies of Skin Color in the Early Royal Society : Boyle, Cavendish, Swift. - London : Taylor and Francis,c2016

978-1-317-04891-6 ( : electronic bk.)

978-1-138-26957-6 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 1019831850     

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Cover -- Frontispiece -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- I. Science and Colonialism -- II. Pre-Adamism -- III. Robert Boyle and "the Empire of Man over the inferior Creatures" -- 1 Race and the Experimental Method in the Society -- I. Boyle on Colors -- II. March 1661 Queries -- III. The "entire SKIN of a MOOR" -- IV. Queries on Skin Color and the Discourse of "Observation and Experience" -- 2 Discussions of Race and the Emergence of Polygenesis in the Society -- I. Black Blood vs. Leeuwenhoek's "Little Scales" -- II. Bernier's Influence -- III. Richard Waller's "Table of Coloures" -- IV. "The Complexions of Mankind" -- V. "A Distinct Race of Men": Hans Sloane and Abraham Hill -- VI. John Woodward vs. L.P. -- 3 Boyle, Biblical Monogenesis, and Slavery -- I. Boyle and Pre-Adamism -- II. Boyle and John Clayton -- III. Boyle, Morgan Godwyn, and the Draft Bills in the Boyle Papers -- IV. Biblical Monogenesis as Imperial Practice -- 4 Race, Gender, and the Response to Boyle in Cavendish's Blazing World -- I. Polygenesis as Satire in the Voyages to the Moon -- II. Polygenesis in The Blazing World -- III. Race in Observations upon Experimental Philosophy -- IV. The Color of Adam -- 5 Race, Gender, and the Imagination in the Philosophical Transactions -- 6 Gulliver's Travels and Studies of Skin Color in the Society -- Conclusion: The Royal Society and Atlantic Studies -- Appendix: Jonathan Swift's Debt to Margaret Cavendish -- Bibliography -- Index.