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Nicholas Dew
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Latest papers
Scientific travel in the Atlantic world: the French expedition to Gorée and the Antilles, 1681-1683.
British journal for the history of science · 2010 · first author
Scientific travel in the Atlantic world: the French expedition to Gorée and the Antilles, 1681-1683.
British journal for the history of science · 2010 · first author
Latest funding
- $147,975
Hidden Hands in Colonial Natural History Collections
SSHRC · 2021 · Co-investigator
- $51,732
Hidden Hands in Colonial Natural History Collections
SSHRC · 2021 · Co-investigator
- $49,500
Science and empire in the French Atlantic world, c. 1660-1760
SSHRC · 2009 · Principal investigator
2 publications.
Scientific travel in the Atlantic world: the French expedition to Gorée and the Antilles, 1681-1683.
Dew N
Scientific travel in the Atlantic world: the French expedition to Gorée and the Antilles, 1681-1683.
Dew N
Hidden Hands in Colonial Natural History Collections
Principal investigators: Dickenson, Victoria J.
Keywords: natural history; colonialism; classification; scientific illustration; material culture
Hidden Hands in Colonial Natural History Collections
Principal investigators: Dickenson, Victoria J.
Keywords: natural history; colonialism; classification; scientific illustration; material culture
Science and empire in the French Atlantic world, c. 1660-1760
Principal investigators: Dew, Nicholas
Keywords: early modern Europe; early modern France; history of science; history of travel; intellectual history 1600-1800; cultural history
Clustering the humanist and social studies of science in Canada
Principal investigators: McOuat, Gordon R.
Keywords: trust in science; knowledge in the modern world; science and technology studies; history and philosophy of science
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
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