Article ID: CBB000640166

O ouro sob as Luzes: a “arte” de minerar no discurso do naturalista João da Silva Feijó (1760--1824) (2004)

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Silva, Clarete Paranhos da (Author)
Lopes, Maria Margaret (Author)


História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Volume: 11
Pages: 731--750


Publication Date: 2004
Edition Details: Translated title: [Gold under the Lights: the “art” of mining in the discourse of naturalist João da Silva Feijó (1760--1824).] In Portuguese.
Language: Portuguese

João da Silva Feijó was a Luso-Brazilian naturalist commissioned by the Portuguese Crown to conduct natural history research between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He was sent to the Cape Verde islands (1783-97) and then to the captaincy of Ceará, in Brazil (1799). Upon returning from Cape Verde to Lisbon, prior to his Brazilian mission, Feijó laid out his opinions on Brazil's gold mines in a manuscript entitled Discourse. The present article offers some preliminary comments on the ideas found in Discourse. Given its importance as part of a larger set of period texts on the mining crisis in Brazil, this manuscript - never before published - is also transcribed herein. Keywords: history of Brazil; geosciences; mining; mineralogy; natural history.

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Description Includes a transcription of Feijó's manuscript.


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Authors & Contributors
Silva, Clarete Paranhos da
Figueirôa, Silvia Fernanda de Mendonça
Pataca, Ermelinda Moutinho
Lopes, Maria Margaret
Hines, Elizabeth
Cassandra Mark-Thiesen
Concepts
Portugal, colonies
Mines and mining
Gold
Mineralogy
Medicine
Great Britain, colonies
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
17th century
Enlightenment
16th century
Places
Brazil
United States
South Africa
Portugal
North Carolina (U.S.)
Atlantic world
Institutions
Academia das Ciências de Lisboa
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