Monday 30 July 2018

Portico project: Entwined

National Library Australia website of journals here

Endeavour Journal of  Sir Joseph Banks
16 Jan 1769 trip into country of Tierra del Fuego resulting in death of two men: Thomas Richmond and George Dorlton ( noted as black servants)

CAPTAIN COOK'S JOURNAL DURING HIS FIRST VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD
MADE IN H.M. BARK "ENDEAVOUR"
1768-71
A Literal Transcription of the Original MSS.
WITH NOTES AND INTRODUCTION
EDITED BY CAPTAIN W.J.L. WHARTON, R.N., F.R.S.
Hydrographer of the Admiralty.
Illustrated by Maps and Facsimiles

Criticism of Hawkesworth by Dalyrymple
Review of Beaglehole's edition of Cook's Journals

Illustrations from Endeavour
Parkinson breadfruit
Parkinson Lecanthus solandri

Review of Adam Smith
Adam Smith on colonies
Smith
Revolutionary bourgeois Smith
Weingast on Smith slavery and abolition
aka the Wealth of Nations
Capitalism and imperialism

Anson's map 
George Anson, First Admiral/ pirate : lost 3 of 6 ships; pirated 1,313,843 pieces of eight, from a Spanish galleon Nuestra Señora de Covadonga off Cape Espiritu Santo in 1743 - made him very rich!
Noted for his 'indomitable perseverance he had shown during one of the most arduous voyages in the history of sea adventure gained the reward of the capture of an immensely rich prize,' Read that character trait through the eyes of his crew !

Southern Theory: social science and the global dynamic of knowledge. Raewyn W. Connell

Alix Cooper Inventing the Indigenous: Local knowledge and Natural History in Early Modern Europe 

'Latin Words, Vernacular Worlds: Language, Nature, and the 'Indigenous' in Early Modern Europe'
East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine, No. 26 (2007), pp. 17-39

Bacon Instauratio Magna 

Tupaia map and drawings

The banana tree, shown in Tupaia's drawing, is one of 70 species of the genus Musa, named in Latin by Linnaeus from the Arabic Mauz in 1753

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musa_(genus)

Hawkesworth on Cook Lynne Truss on 'hubristic book editor' of An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere

Maps

Saturday 14 July 2018

forcing perspectival change

Mobile Worlds | Hamburg
Through Oct. 14 at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg; mkg-hamburg.de.
 Curator Roger M. Buergel

Review

Indigenous design | agencies | processes

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