In-class response.
Suppose Linnaeus had been successful in raising Swedish silkworms, and King Gustav III asks you what he should do to start actually building up silk production in 18th century Sweden. You don’t know much about silk, but you’ve read Schaefer’s article. What do you say?
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Dragons aren’t real. (Spoiler alert). But make the case that Li Shizhen’s Bencao gangmu a “Cartesian” work in the sense that we talked about with Foucault last week, or at least that it’s scientific.
Diderot and D’Alembert, Encylopedie. Silk production.
Jaccard Looms