Live plants on the way: ship, island, botanical garden, paradise and container as systematic flexible connected spaces in between
- Author(s)
- Marianne Klemun
- Abstract
In the 18th century the global transfer of plants from the colonies to the scientific and political centres of Europe and places in the colonies was basically optimized. Some European Botanical gardens moved to new sites on exotic islands such as the Isle de France, Ceylon and Jamaica. The transfer of plants was accelerated by the transport of live plants, which became evident in an intensive search for more adequate transfer conditions, but there was no innovation in respect of containers. This happened only in the first half of the 19th century, because of the invention of the Wardian case. Why it took so long to happen will be explained by a consideration of the systemic connections of the spaces identified as ship, garden, island and container as instances of transfer that were connected by the paradigm of flexibility of use based on the idea of paradise.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of History
- Journal
- HOST - Journal of History of Science and Technology
- Volume
- 5
- Pages
- 30-48
- No. of pages
- 19
- Publication date
- 2012
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 603123 History of science
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/live-plants-on-the-way-ship-island-botanical-garden-paradise-and-container-as-systematic-flexible-connected-spaces-in-between(6f6b1b68-bcf3-4cd9-8a89-c97305ade65f).html