LEADER 00000cam a2200961Ki 4500 001 ocn861793487 003 OCoLC 005 20160527041551.9 006 m o d 007 cr cnu---unuuu 008 131031s2006 ncua ob s001 0 eng d 019 935259574 020 9781469600956|q(electronic book) 020 1469600951|q(electronic book) 020 |z9780807830093 020 |z0807830097 020 |z9780807856789 020 |z0807856789 035 (OCoLC)861793487|z(OCoLC)935259574 037 22573/ctt621gf|bJSTOR 040 JSTOR|beng|erda|epn|cJSTOR|dJSTOR|dOCLCO|dOCLCF|dN$T |dOCLCO|dOCLCQ|dOCLCO|dYDXCP|dEBLCP|dOCLCO 043 n-us---|ae-uk---|an------ 049 RIDW 050 4 QH21.U5|bP37 2006eb 072 7 HIS036020|2bisacsh 072 7 HIS051000|2bisacsh 072 7 NAT|x024000|2bisacsh 072 7 NAT|x027000|2bisacsh 072 7 TRV|x026020|2bisacsh 082 04 508/.0973|222 090 QH21.U5|bP37 2006eb 100 1 Parrish, Susan Scott.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/ names/n2005059787 245 10 American curiosity :|bcultures of natural history in the colonial British Atlantic world /|cSusan Scott Parrish. 264 1 Chapel Hill :|bUniversity of North Carolina Press,|c[2006] 264 4 |c©2006 300 1 online resource (xvi, 321 pages) :|billustrations. 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 340 |gpolychrome|2rdacc 347 text file|2rdaft 490 1 Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia 500 "Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia." 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 The British metropolis and its "America," 1584-1763. A strange overplus ; Nature's admirable regularity ; London's curious -- English bodies in America. The English humoral body ; Contagious climates ; The English body saved ; Uncouth symptoms -- Atlantic correspondence networks and the curious male colonial. Mutual commerce ; Not one rational eye ; The empirical advantage ; Becoming an F.R.S. ; Us Americans -- The nature of candid friendship. Familiar letters ; The honest friend versus the fop ; Curious love ; Gifts -- Lavinia's nature. Fatal curiosity ; A peculiar grace in the fair sex ; Specimens by every shipping ; Finding signs of the pastoral -- Indian sagacity. The most secret things of nature ; Dear and deadly grapes ; Contested mediation ; No people have better eyes ; A wonderful antidote -- African magi, slave poisoners. Topographies of slave knowledge ; Cunning ; Hiding places ; Collectors ; Poisoners ; Healers ; Obscene birds ; Forest trial, forest refuge. 520 Examines how various people in the British colonies understood and represented the natural world around them from the late sixteenth century through the eighteenth. 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