SINOPSIS DEL LIBRO

<p>When the imperial explorer James Cook returned from his first voyage to Australia, scandal writers mercilessly satirised the amorous exploits of his botanist Joseph Banks, whose trousers were reportedly stolen while he was inside the tent of Queen Oberea of Tahiti. Was the pursuit of scientific truth really what drove Enlightenment science?<br><br>In Sweden and Britain, both imperial powers, Banks and Carl Linneaus ruled over their own small s...Seguir leyendo