Visible empire : botanical expeditions and visual culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment /

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Bleichmar uses these images to trace two related histories - the little-known history of scientific expeditions in the Hispanic Enlightenment and the history of visual evidence in both science and administration in the early modern Spanish empire.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bleichmar, Daniela, 1973- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2012]
Temas:
Botany > Spain > Colonies > History.
Scientific expeditions > Spain > Colonies > History.
Botanical illustration > Spain > Colonies > History.
Natural history > Spain > Colonies > History.
Natural History > history
Expéditions scientifiques > Espagne > Colonies > Histoire.
Illustration botanique > Espagne > Colonies > Histoire.
Sciences naturelles > Espagne > Colonies > Histoire.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Botany.
Spain
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: natural history and visual culture in the Spanish empire
  • A botanical reconquista
  • Natural history and visual epistemology
  • Painting as exploration
  • Economic botany and the limits of the visual
  • Visions of imperial nature: global white space, local color
  • Conclusion: the empire as an image machine.

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