Studies of skin color in the early Royal Society: Boyle, Cavendish, Swift
In: Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
1. Race and the experimental method in the society -- 2. Discussions of race and the emergence of polygenesis in the society -- 3. Boyle, biblical monogenesis, and slavery -- 4. Race, gender, and the response to Boyle in Cavendish's Blazing world -- 5. Race, gender, and the imagination in the Philosophical transactions -- 6. Gulliver's travels and studies of skin color in the society.