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Joseph Banks and the English Enlightenment: Useful Knowledge and Polite Culture
December 18, 2003, Cambridge University Press
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0521542111 9780521542111
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"Like Francis Bacon, Bank's importance lies not in his own scientific contributions-which were few and slight-but rather in his ability to publicise the possibilities of science when linked with sympathetic patrons, particularly government."
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