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Abstract(s)
The growth of scientific knowledge in the natural sciences in the nineteenth century to a large
extent depended on networking and communication between naturalists. Our case-study illustrates such
forms of scientific communication using a social network analysis (SNA) approach for studying the
relationships of the Reverend Richard Thomas Lowe, an English naturalist who lived in Madeira from 1826
to 1852, and continued to visit until his death in a shipwreck in 1874. During his lifetime, he established a
network of contacts mainly in the United Kingdom and in Madeira, which enabled him to develop and
publish his pioneering work on the local flora, including A manual flora of Madeira and the adjacent islands
of Porto Santo and the Desertas.
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Keywords
A manual flora of Madeira botanical collectors Canary Islands Cape Verde history of botany Macaronesia social network analysis
Pedagogical Context
Citation
Mesquita, S.; Sequeira, M.M.; Castel-Branco, C."Richard Thomas Lowe (1802–1874) and his correspondence networks: botanical exchanges from Madeira". Archives of Natural History 48 2 (2021): 377-395
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press