The English Connection: Jacob and Johann Philipp Breyne, James Petiver and Plants: The Correspondence between the Breynes and Petiver from the 1690s

Pękacka-Falkowska, Katarzyna

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The English Connection: Jacob and Johann Philipp Breyne, James Petiver and Plants: The Correspondence between the Breynes and Petiver from the 1690s Pękacka-Falkowska, Katarzyna

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The English Connection: Jacob and Johann Philipp Breyne, James Petiver and Plants: The Correspondence between the Breynes and Petiver from the 1690s

Kwartalnik Historyczny, Vol. 128 (2021) English-Language Edition No. 5 ; Materials – Polemics

Pękacka-Falkowska, Katarzyna

Polska Akademia Nauk, Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla ; Polskie Towarzystwo Historyczne

Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Instytut Historii Polskiej Akademii Nauk

history of science ; transfer of knowledge ; Polish Prussia (in the seventeenth century) ; Danzig/Gdańsk ; Royal Society ; Breyne, Jakub (1637-1697) ; Breyn, Johann Philipp (1680-1764) ; Gdańsk (Poland) - intellectual life - history ; botany - history ; botanists

The article discusses the hitherto unknown correspondence between the Danzig (present-day Gdańsk) botanist Jacob Breyne, his son Johann Philipp Breyne, and James Petiver in the last decade of the seventeenth century. Their correspondence documents contacts between one of the most important naturalists of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the second half of the seventeenth century and members of the Royal Society. The content of the letters reveals how books, naturalia and various artefacts circulated between Western and East-Central Europe. It also reveals the principles of reciprocity and friendship followed by those who conducted inquiries into natural history.

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