Colouring flowers: books, art, and experiment in the household of Margery and Henry Power.

IF 0.7 1区 哲学 Q2 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE British Journal for the History of Science Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI:10.1017/S0007087422000474
Christoffer Basse Eriksen, Xinyi Wen
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This article examines the early modern household's importance for producing experimental knowledge through an examination of the Halifax household of Margery and Henry Power. While Henry Power has been studied as a natural philosopher within the male-dominated intellectual circles of Cambridge and London, the epistemic labour of his wife, Margery Power, has hitherto been overlooked. From the 1650s, this couple worked in tandem to enhance their understanding of the vegetable world through various paper technologies, from books, paper slips and recipe notebooks to Margery's drawing album and Henry's published Experimental Philosophy. Focusing on Margery's practice of hand-colouring flower books, her copied and original drawings of flowers and her experimental production of ink, we argue that Margery's sensibility towards colour was crucial to Henry's microscopic observations of plants. Even if Margery's sophisticated knowledge of plants never left the household, we argue that her contribution was nevertheless crucial to the observation and representation of plants within the community of experimental philosophy. In this way, our article highlights the importance of female artists within the history of scientific observation, the use of books and paperwork in the botanical disciplines, and the relationship between household science and experimental philosophy.

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花朵着色:玛格丽和亨利-鲍尔家中的书籍、艺术和实验。
本文通过对马杰里-鲍尔和亨利-鲍尔的哈利法克斯家庭的研究,探讨了现代早期家庭在生产实验知识方面的重要性。在剑桥和伦敦以男性为主导的知识界,亨利-鲍尔一直作为自然哲学家被研究,而他的妻子玛格丽-鲍尔的认识论劳动却一直被忽视。从 16 世纪 50 年代开始,这对夫妇通过各种纸张技术,从书籍、纸条和食谱笔记本到玛格丽的画册和亨利出版的《实验哲学》,共同增进他们对植物世界的了解。我们将重点放在玛格丽为花卉书籍手工上色的做法、她临摹和原创的花卉图画以及她实验性的墨水制作上,我们认为玛格丽对色彩的敏感性对于亨利对植物的微观观察至关重要。尽管玛格丽对植物的精深了解从未离开过家庭,但我们认为,她的贡献对于实验哲学界对植物的观察和表现至关重要。通过这种方式,我们的文章强调了女艺术家在科学观察史、书籍和文书在植物学科中的使用以及家庭科学与实验哲学之间关系中的重要性。
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期刊介绍: This leading international journal publishes scholarly papers and review articles on all aspects of the history of science. History of science is interpreted widely to include medicine, technology and social studies of science. BJHS papers make important and lively contributions to scholarship and the journal has been an essential library resource for more than thirty years. It is also used extensively by historians and scholars in related fields. A substantial book review section is a central feature. There are four issues a year, comprising an annual volume of over 600 pages. Published for the British Society for the History of Science
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