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  1. Desire, Marriage, and Overpopulation: The Sexual Lives of Insects in the Enlightenment (Tome 145, 7e Série, n°1-2, (2024)). [REVIEW]John Lidwell-Durnin & Vincent Roy-di Piazza - forthcoming - Revue de Synthèse:1-36.
    During the eighteenth century, the discovery of sexual reproduction in insect species prompted the demise of spontaneous generation and new developments in natural history, theology, and political economy. The sexual lives of insects prompted debates on whether insects were governed by desire, free will, and even marital tendency. Fuelled by the democratisation of microscopy, early modern entomology took a new turn and breadth: the study of insects and of their sexual lives provided unexpected new insights into human sexuality, reproduction, and (...)
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  • Visible Labour? Productive Forces and Imaginaries of Participation in European Insect Studies, ca. 1680–1810.Dominik Hünniger - 2021 - Berichte Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 44 (2):180-210.
    The practice of early modern natural history depended on the collective collecting activities of a great variety of people. Among them, artisans played a major role in acquiring and distributing knowledge about the natural world and they contributed significantly to the scholarly labour in natural history. This distributed labour was both acknowledged by contemporaries as well as hidden from sight, reflecting the period′s dominant norms for class and gender. By combining an interpretation of the visual representation of labour in European (...)
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