What defined scientific knowledge in early America? And how was scientific proof used?
Taking us away from the familiar museums and universities of the Northeast to the woods and swamps of the Gulf South, author Cameron Strang shows us that science was in fact a multinational production—a mix of observations made by Native Americans, enslaved Africans, and men like Andrew Ellicott, an astronomer who combined scientific knowledge, the coerced labor of enslaved people, and the cooperation of the Seminoles to mark the contested boundary between U.S. and Spanish territories in Florida.
Drawing on his 2018 book Frontiers of Science: Imperialism and Natural Knowledge in the Gulf South Borderlands, published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Strang shows how a Florida boundary created a national identity in the founding years of the U.S. Republic, separating the supposed virtue of the American republic from the imagined chaos of the borderlands.
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