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In Search of the Unicorn’s Virtue in a Rhino Horn Cup: Consumption of Rhino Horns and the Production of Knowledge in Early Modern Lisbon (2022)

Bruno A. Martinho (Author)
António Manuel Lopes Andrade (Author)

Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Volume: 27
Issue: 6
Pages: 572-600
Publication date: 2022
Language: English

URI: https://brill.com/view/journals/esm/27/6/article-p572_2.xml

DOI: 10.1163/15733823-20220059

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Scientific communities; interprofessional relations Social networks Local knowledge Biological specimens Microhistory Knowledge production (modes) Animals, mythical Rhinoceros 16th century Lisbon (Portugal) Godines, Jorge

This article focuses on the analysis of a medical consilium about a rhino horn written around 1570 by the Portuguese royal physician Jorge Godines to the Spanish ambassador in Lisbon. It sheds light on the processes of knowledge production concerning rhino and unicorn horns in early modern Lisbon. Through micro-historical analysis, we will demonstrate how demand, supply, and the availability of specimens, experience, information, and intellectual networks contributed to the establishment of a specific geography of scientific knowledge around the city. The analysis hopes to contribute to the disclosure of a more heterogeneous scientific landscape in early modern Europe, where practices of knowledge production depended very much on local contacts and on the agents’ individual trajectories.

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