ARTH 2120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Natural History Museum, London, Taxidermy, Joseph Banks
26 Feb 2019
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Built his collection over his 93 years of life. He was the founding father of the british museum. He had the dream job of a physician. He was in jamaica and saw and collected plants and animals from there and wrote down how they were used. He learned things from the slaves in jamaica because he was the minister"s physician. He married a widowed plantation owner was able to interact with the slaves. He was an investor who made money out of the knowledge he gained from these people. One of his most famous discoveries was the cocoa. Invented chocolate milk sold it to an apothecary. Cadbury used it later to make chocolate. A botanist, an entrepreneur, a promoter of science, a member of the aristocracy, and a collector. He collected plants and animals and encouraged others to do so. He thought knowing more about the natural world could be good for economics.
