Resurrecting the list: exploring Coimbra Botanical Garden in 1800 through multi-species network visualisation

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• Nathan Cornish (University of Southampton)
• Monday 03 November 2025, 13:00-14:00
• Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

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In 1800, Kew Gardens received a full catalogue of the plants at Portugal’s only university botanical garden through Joseph Banks’ network in order to facilitate the exchange of plants. This catalogue represents a rare opportunity to visualise and analyse the garden not only through the structure of taxonomic arrangement but also as an environmental node in a colonial network of plant exchange. Network analysis used as a speculative and creative tool enables different ways of seeing the garden that highlight the physical connections of plants moved within the network of botanical study. Building on this methodology looks towards ways of precisely and creatively understanding the environmental history of imperial science at a larger scale than following the stories of individual plants.

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