Christoffer Basse Eriksen
@cberiksen.bsky.social
Historian of science and ideas writing about microscopes, insects and flowers. Postdoc at Aarhus University. Member of the Danish Young Academy.
You can read more about the project in this article: dff.dk/en/our-funde...
And a bit about me here: dff.dk/en/our-funde...
And a bit about me here: dff.dk/en/our-funde...
What has ‘Flora Danica’ meant for Denmark as a nation?
The publication of a series of volumes featuring pictures of the nation's plants may seem like an uncontroversial enterprise. But in the 1700s and 1800s, it was an innovative manifestation of what sho...
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June 28, 2025 at 9:58 AM
You can read more about the project in this article: dff.dk/en/our-funde...
And a bit about me here: dff.dk/en/our-funde...
And a bit about me here: dff.dk/en/our-funde...
We’ll spend a lot of time in the archives of the Natural History Museum Denmark (@nhmdk.bsky.social), which holds magnificent material relating to the production of the Flora Danica, and in Northern European libraries, where we’ll research the circulation of the published volumes.
June 28, 2025 at 9:58 AM
We’ll spend a lot of time in the archives of the Natural History Museum Denmark (@nhmdk.bsky.social), which holds magnificent material relating to the production of the Flora Danica, and in Northern European libraries, where we’ll research the circulation of the published volumes.
Over the coming four years, we'll be researching why European nation-states spent so many resources publishing expensive volumes depicting indigenous flowers. Our focus is on the Flora Danica published between 1761 and 1883, and how this publication helped to produce the notion of a Danish nature.
June 28, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Over the coming four years, we'll be researching why European nation-states spent so many resources publishing expensive volumes depicting indigenous flowers. Our focus is on the Flora Danica published between 1761 and 1883, and how this publication helped to produce the notion of a Danish nature.
Thanks a lot, Amanda!
November 30, 2024 at 9:55 AM
Thanks a lot, Amanda!
Oh great, thanks!
November 12, 2024 at 10:56 AM
Oh great, thanks!