Article ID: CBB001022555

Resumen de El imperio visible: la mirada experta y la imagen en las expediciones científicas de la Ilustración (2008)

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Bleichmar, Daniela (Author)


Cuadernos Dieciochistas: revista consagrada al estudio de la historia, el pensamiento, la literatura, el arte y la ciencia del siglo XVIII
Volume: 9
Pages: 21--47


Publication Date: 2008
Edition Details: Part of a special issue, “Imágenes del siglo XVIII y el siglo XVIII en imágenes”

This essay examines the Spanish natural history expeditions to Latin America in the late 18th Century particularly the Real Expedición Botánica a N ueva Granada, directed by José Celestino Mutis as an approach to an analysis of the importance of visual culture in European natural history, especially in imperial contexts. It explains the connections between economic botany and taxonomic botany, and highlights the role of visual epistemology in bringing them together. It proposes that the scientific expeditions constituted visualization projects that, through the circulation of images and collections, transformed locally rooted natures into global natures in motion.

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Description On “the Spanish natural history expeditions to Latin America in the late 18th Century, particularly the Real Expedición Botánica a Nueva Granada, directed by José Celestino Mutis,” and its relation to the visual culture of science. (from the abstract)


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Article Bleichmar, Daniela (2009) Visible Empire: Scientific Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment. Postcolonial Studies (p. 441). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Bleichmar, Daniela
Gutiérrez, Alberto Gómez
Studholme, Joseph
Gooding, Mel
Herranz, Jaime Pascual
Wilson, Edward O.
Concepts
Spain, colonies
Botany
Natural history
Scientific expeditions
Visual representation; visual communication
Scientific illustration
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
17th century
16th century
Places
Spain
South America
Colombia
New Granada (Spanish colony)
Peru
Mexico
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