Sir Hans Sloane's voyage to Jamaica, 1687-1689
By Tony Rice
Frontispiece from Sloane's account of the natural history of Jamaica and its neighbouring islands
Voyages of discovery were an important part of the search for a new order in the natural world. Tony Rice charts Sir Hans Sloane's seventeenth-century expedition to Jamaica, a voyage that produced one of the world's most significant natural history collections. Sloane amassed a hoard of thousands of natural history books, objects and artworks in his quest for a rationalist approach to the study of nature.
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