In related work, Peter Sloterdijk has pointed out that, despite Magellan, the old word for the firmament (the continens or "container") was transferred to giant landmasses, as though the land surrounded or contained the oceans, rather than the reverse.1 Redrawing attention to the history of the European discovery of the Pacific, then, allows the Atlantic to be seen anew. ...the original contribution of Transoceanic America is not simply to add Pacific contexts to Atlantic Studies. The result for historiography was a modern definition of revolution that seemed to be modelled after Atlantic conflicts while leaving Pacific history out, despite ample evidence of the importance of transpacific trade for many of the leading figures in the American Revolution. The premise of Antipodean medicine or of transoceanic agricultural experiments was that nourishing Pacific exotics (most famously breadfruit, or in the case of Earle's novel, an "obi bag" of assorted remedies) could cure Atlantic hunger or disease.