{
  "id": "exceeding-the-age-in-every-thing-placing-sloanes-objects-6743",
  "type": "article-journal",
  "title": "‘Exceeding the Age in Every Thing’: Placing Sloane’s Objects",
  "author": [
    {
      "literal": "James Delbourgo"
    }
  ],
  "container-title": "Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science",
  "volume": "3",
  "issue": "1",
  "issued": {
    "date-parts": [
      [
        2009
      ]
    ]
  },
  "URL": "https://spontaneousgenerations.com/articles/exceeding-the-age-in-every-thing-placing-sloanes-objects-6743/",
  "page": "41-54",
  "DOI": "10.4245/sponge.v3i1.6743",
  "abstract": "That objects of knowledge get moved across boundaries is well known. But how they get moved often goes unexamined. Modes of movement cannot be ignored when considering objects’ historical significance. Put differently, how geographies are negotiated is central to the constitution of knowledge objects. This essay offers a brief assessment of the competing agencies at work in the global collections of the Enlightenment naturalist Sir Hans Sloane (1660–1753). While discussing broadly the relationship between collecting and power in Sloane’s career, the essay stresses the passivity and strategic weakness of the collector, and suggests how the meanings of specific curiosities varied according to asymmetries in their mode of transfer."
}