Neil SafierNeil Safier is Associate Professor of History at Brown University, where he served from 2013-21 as Beatrice and Julio Mario Santo Domingo Director and Librarian of the John Carter Brown Library. He is the author of Measuring the New World: Enlightenmnt Science and South America (2008) and a range of articles on the history of natural history, environmental studies, and the trans-imperial history of the tropical world, especially South America. He is currently working on a book that connects Brazilian natural history with the plantation cultures of the eighteenth-century Caribbean, including sugar, indigo, coffee, and cotton. Read More Read Less