Alexandre de Humboldt et Aimé Bonpland, botanistes de l’Amérique hispanique (1799-1804) : de la taxonomie à l’épistémologie

Autor:	Michèle Guicharnaud-Tollis
Jazyk:	Spanish; Castilian<br />French<br />Portuguese
Rok vydání:	2018
Předmět:	Travel botany Spanish-America Europe 18th and 19th centuries Latin America. Spanish America F1201-3799 French literature - Italian literature - Spanish literature - Portuguese literature PQ1-3999 Social Sciences
Zdroj:	Caravelle, Vol 110, Pp 33-48 (2018)
Druh dokumentu:	article
ISSN:	1147-6753 2272-9828
DOI:	10.4000/caravelle.2757
Popis:	An absolute Eldorado for botanical travelers, Spanish-American equinoctial lands were for A. de Humboldt and A. Bonpland a wide space practically unexplored, full of sensations, observations and experiments in specific scientific areas that often went beyond simple botany. This article shows how the newly discovered plants’ representation integrates for Humboldt into a system of thoughts about Nature, inherited from his own times. Well beyond, this reinforced intuitions previously only glimpsed: the making of herbariums led to theories about plants’ geography (1805) and novel epystemological reflections about their « metamorphosis » and integration inside a living and evolving Cosmos.
Databáze:	Directory of Open Access Journals
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