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Author : E. van den Boogaart,Rebecca Parker Brienen,Dante Martins Teixeira
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Brazil
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113081496
Author : Mariana Françozo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000867589
This volume presents the first extensive census of the surviving copies of the treatise Historia Naturalis Brasiliae in libraries worldwide and examines the book from a variety of interdisciplinary viewpoints. The chapters in this volume are written by scholars from different fields of knowledge, including anthropology, botany, linguistics, literature, book history, medieval and early modern history, and art history. The chapters contextualize the treatise vis-à-vis its predecessors and contemporaneous works of natural history and examine its botanical, zoological, and linguistic accuracy and usefulness in the present day. Put together, the seven chapters of this volume present a kaleidoscope of possibilities of how to re-interpret Piso and Marcgraf’s work within the dynamic context of knowledge-production about the ‘New’ World in the early modern era, while also suggesting approaches to continue profiting from its subject matter in the present day. Toward an Intercultural Natural History of Brazil offers essential reading on the Historia Naturalis Brasiliae, natural history and Latin American history. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Author : Susan Bach (Firm)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173030839301
Author : Jan Koning,Gerda va Uffelen,Alicja Zemanek,Bogdan Zemanek
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004278004
Drawn after nature presents a vivid and complete picture of a unique historical collection of botanical watercolours. Botanists, art lovers, historians as well as the general public will enjoy this publication of the watercolours, their annotations and their history, but above all their supreme beauty and display of craftsmanship. For over 300 years, the Preußische Staatsbibliothek in Berlin held a most remarkable collection of botanical watercolours. They were catalogued as part of the library’s illustrated manuscripts, or Libri Picturati. These magnificent works of art, rich in colour and detail, were made in the second half of the 16th century in the southern part of the Low Countries. In the 1970s the complete set of watercolours had been rediscovered and sparked the interest of historians, art historians and botanists alike. Together they set out to unravel the many secrets still held by the Libri Picturati’s watercolours: who had collected them, and why? A team of pre-eminent European scientists worked together on these and other intriguing questions surrounding the collection. They unveiled the important role played by the famous Dutch botanist Carolus Clusius, who later founded the University of Leiden’s Botanical Gardens. Drawn after nature contains accessible and informative chapters on the collection’s history, but most importantly: it brings together all of the original 1429 watercolours and sketches, for the first time in one volume, accompanied by their original annotations.
Author : Willem Piso
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781483285252
De Indiae utriusque re naturali et medica libri quatuordecim
Author : Harold John Cook,Sven Dupré
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9783643902467
Knowledge of nature may be common to all of humanity, yet it is written in many tongues. The story of the Tower of Babel is not only an etiology of the multitude of languages, it also suggests that a "confusion of tongues" confounds communication. However, as the contributors to this volume show, translation is always a transformation. This book examines how such transformations generate new knowledge and how translations helped to establish a new science. Situated at the border of the Germanic and Romance languages, home to a highly educated population, the Low Countries fostered multilingualism and became one of the chief sites for translation. (Series: Low Countries Studies on the Circulation of Natural Knowledge - Vol. 3)
Author : Michiel van Groesen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107061170
Argues that Dutch Brazil is integral to Atlantic history and made an impact well beyond the colonial and national narratives in the Netherlands and Brazil.
Author : Londa Schiebinger
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780674043275
Plants seldom figure in the grand narratives of war, peace, or even everyday life yet they are often at the center of high intrigue. In the eighteenth century, epic scientific voyages were sponsored by European imperial powers to explore the natural riches of the New World, and uncover the botanical secrets of its people. Bioprospectors brought back medicines, luxuries, and staples for their king and country. Risking their lives to discover exotic plants, these daredevil explorers joined with their sponsors to create a global culture of botany. But some secrets were unearthed only to be lost again. In this moving account of the abuses of indigenous Caribbean people and African slaves, Schiebinger describes how slave women brewed the "peacock flower" into an abortifacient, to ensure that they would bear no children into oppression. Yet, impeded by trade winds of prevailing opinion, knowledge of West Indian abortifacients never flowed into Europe. A rich history of discovery and loss, Plants and Empire explores the movement, triumph, and extinction of knowledge in the course of encounters between Europeans and the Caribbean populations.
Author : Anthony B. Cunningham
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781853836978
First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Robert Voeks,John Rashford
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461408369
African Ethnobotany in the Americas provides the first comprehensive examination of ethnobotanical knowledge and skills among the African Diaspora in the Americas. Leading scholars on the subject explore the complex relationship between plant use and meaning among the descendants of Africans in the New World. With the aid of archival and field research carried out in North America, South America, and the Caribbean, contributors explore the historical, environmental, and political-ecological factors that facilitated/hindered transatlantic ethnobotanical diffusion; the role of Africans as active agents of plant and plant knowledge transfer during the period of plantation slavery in the Americas; the significance of cultural resistance in refining and redefining plant-based traditions; the principal categories of plant use that resulted; the exchange of knowledge among Amerindian, European and other African peoples; and the changing significance of African-American ethnobotanical traditions in the 21st century. Bolstered by abundant visual content and contributions from renowned experts in the field, African Ethnobotany in the Americas is an invaluable resource for students, scientists, and researchers in the field of ethnobotany and African Diaspora studies.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 717 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047422365
In this volume, specialists from various disciplines (Neo-Latin, French, German, Dutch, History, History of Science, Art History) explore the fascinating early modern discourses on animals in science, literature and the visual arts.
Author : Gail Guthrie Valaskakis,Madeleine Dion Stout,Eric Guimond
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780887553615
First Nations peoples believe the eagle flies with a female wing and a male wing, showing the importance of balance between the feminine and the masculine in all aspects of individual and community experiences. Centuries of colonization, however, have devalued the traditional roles of First Nations women, causing a great gender imbalance that limits the abilities of men, women, and their communities in achieving self-actualization.Restoring the Balance brings to light the work First Nations women have performed, and continue to perform, in cultural continuity and community development. It illustrates the challenges and successes they have had in the areas of law, politics, education, community healing, language, and art, while suggesting significant options for sustained improvement of individual, family, and community well-being. Written by fifteen Aboriginal scholars, activists, and community leaders, Restoring the Balance combines life histories and biographical accounts with historical and critical analyses grounded in traditional thought and approaches. It is a powerful and important book.
Author : James Delbourgo,Nicholas Dew
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135899097
Science and Empire in the Atlantic World is the first book in the growing field of Atlantic Studies to examine the production of scientific knowledge in the Atlantic world from a comparative and international perspective. Rather than focusing on a specific scientific field or single national context, this collection captures the multiplicity of practices, people, languages, and agendas that characterized the traffic in knowledge around the Atlantic world, linking this knowledge to the social processes fundamental to colonialism, such as travel, trade, ethnography, and slavery.
Author : Eric Lichtfouse
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400759619
Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for humans and their children. Sustainable agriculture is a discipline that addresses current issues such as climate change, increasing food and fuel prices, poor-nation starvation, rich-nation obesity, water pollution, soil erosion, fertility loss, pest control, and biodiversity depletion. Novel solutions are proposed based on integrated knowledge from sciences as diverse as agronomy, soil science, molecular biology, chemistry, toxicology, ecology, economy, philosophy and social sciences. Because actual society issues are now intertwined, global, and fast-developing, sustainable agriculture will bring solutions to build a safer world. This book series gathers review articles that analyze current agricultural issues and knowledge, then propose alternative solutions. It will therefore help all scientists, decision-makers, professors, farmers and politicians who wish to build a safe agriculture, energy and food system for future generations.
Author : Florike Egmond
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317324225
Egmond's study investigates horticultural techniques, fashions in the collection of rare plants, botanical experimentation and methods of scientific evaluation, as well as tracking the exchange of knowledge. Central to this activity is the figure of Carolus Clusius (1526-1609), the first truly scientific botanist.
