Article ID: CBB980497350

La incorporación del pensamiento geográfico de Alejandro von Humboldt en la cultura científica de la Nueva Granada (2020)

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Este artículo estudia las teorías que fueron discutidas por los geógrafos de la Nueva Granada en la primera mitad del siglo XIX, con el propósito de establecer cómo circuló el pensamiento de Alexander von Humboldt en la comunidad académica y qué circunstancias favorecieron la incorporación de sus ideas en la cultura científica local. Primero, se analizan algunos trabajos cartográficos producidos por Francisco José de Caldas y Alexander von Humboldt en los primeros años del siglo, con el propósito de identificar el origen de sus convergencias y divergencias con respecto a la práctica geográfica. Luego, se examinan las teorías que prevalecieron entre los geógrafos neogranadinos en las tres primeras décadas del siglo y se intenta determinar cuáles fueron las circunstancias que favorecieron la revaloración del pensamiento humboldtiano. Finalmente, se muestra que la resignificación del conocimiento geográfico a mediados de siglo ocurrió de manera concomitante con una relectura de las ideas de Humboldt y con la necesidad de reformar el Estado neogranadino. Se argumenta que el contacto temprano con el científico prusiano no allanó el camino para que sus planteamientos fueran inmediatamente incorporados en el ámbito científico local, sino que la asimilación de estos se produjo tras un complejo proceso de adecuación a la esfera intelectual receptora. This article studies theories that were discussed by the Neogranadinos geographers in the first half of the 19th century in order to know how the Alexander von Humboldt’s thought circulated among academ-ic community and what circumstances favored the incorporation of their ideas into the local scientific culture. First, I analyze some of the cartographic works produced by Francisco José de Caldas and Alex-ander von Humboldt during the first years of the century in order to identify the origin of their diver-gent and convergent views about geographical practice. Later, I examine the prevailing theories among the Neograndinos geographers in the first three decades of the century and I try to determine the circum-stances that motivated the reevaluation of the Humboldtian thought. Finally, this article shows that a resignification of geographic knowledge occurred concurrently with a re-read of Humboldt’s ideas and with the need to reform the Neogranadino State. It argues that early contact with the Prussian scientist did not pave the way for his approaches to be immediately incorporated into the local scientific field, but that their assimilation occurred after a complex process of adaptation to the receiving intellectual sphere

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Authors & Contributors
Appelbaum, Nancy P.
Del Castillo, Lina Maria
Anthony, Patrick
Arboleda Aparicio, Luis Carlos
Ette, Ottmar
García, Mónica
Journals
Asclepio: Archivo Iberoamericano de Historia de la Medicina
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Hispanic American Historical Review
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Llull: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de las Técnicas
Osteuropa
Publishers
CLUEB
de Gruyter
The University of Arizona Press
University of Chicago Press
University of Nebraska Press
University of North Carolina Press
Concepts
Geography
Cartography
Travel; exploration
Maps; atlases
Science and society
Science and culture
People
Humboldt, Alexander von
Caldas, Francisco José de
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Humboldt, Wilhelm von
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
Enlightenment
Places
Colombia
Germany
South America
Panama
Russia
Spain
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