Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 ‘In a Pure Soil’: Francis Bacon's Empire of Knowledge
- 2 Restoring Eden in America: The Hartlib Circle's Pansophical Empire
- 3 Robert Boyle's Protestant Colonial Project
- 4 The Royal Society and the Atlantic World
- 5 John Locke's Language of Empire
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
Notes
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 ‘In a Pure Soil’: Francis Bacon's Empire of Knowledge
- 2 Restoring Eden in America: The Hartlib Circle's Pansophical Empire
- 3 Robert Boyle's Protestant Colonial Project
- 4 The Royal Society and the Atlantic World
- 5 John Locke's Language of Empire
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
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- Information
- Natural Science and the Origins of the British Empire , pp. 135 - 162Publisher: Pickering & ChattoFirst published in: 2014