Article ID: CBB000932914

Antônio Moniz de Souza, o “Homem da Natureza Brasileira”: ciência e plantas medicinais no início do século XIX (2008)

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Santos, Laura Carvalho dos (Author)


História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Volume: 15
Pages: 1025--1038


Publication Date: 2008
Edition Details: English title: [Antônio Moniz de Souza, the “Man of Brazilian Nature”: Science and Medicinal Plants in the Early 19th Century]. Proceedings from the conference: First Forum on the History of Science and Health: Historiographical Perspectives, held in the Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica da Bahia on 17 October 2006.
Language: Portuguese

Early nineteenth century Brazil saw a vibrant movement to study nature, including a number of expeditions aimed at gathering a corpus of knowledge on Brazilian flora. One of the main goals of these expeditions was to map and identify plant species of economic and therapeutic value. The government undertook and sponsored various initiatives, and it was within this context that the Bahian voyager Antônio Moniz de Souza engaged in his activities. He traveled through areas of the Brazilian territory in the first decades of the nineteenth century, observing, cataloging, and collecting products from the three kingdoms, especially plants with medicinal powers. This study of Moniz de Souza pinpoints and analyzes important features in the exploration of nature and knowledge and the use of medicinal plants during this timeframe.

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Authors & Contributors
Brendan Cole
Gregg, Amy
Eckert, Carsten
Christa Riedl-Dorn
Zischler, Hanns
Azevedo, Fabiano Cataldo de
Concepts
Botany
Medicinal plants
Scientific expeditions
Natural history
Plant geography; flora
Pharmacy
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
20th century
Places
Brazil
Australia
Bahia (Brazil)
Poland
Southern Africa
Istanbul (Turkey)
Institutions
Real Expedición Botánica del Nuevo Reino de Granada
Royal Society of London
British East India Company
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