ANALYSIS
Travels and science in Brazil
DAVID MARCUS KNIGHT
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For a better understanding of colonial domains: the creation of an information net during the Portuguese Empire at the end of the eighteenth century
ÂNGELA DOMINGUES
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Analogies et contrastes entre l’expédition d’Egypte et le voyage d’Humboldt et Bonpland
JEAN-MARC DROUIN
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Scientific travellers in eighteenth-century Brazil: their experience, reports and graphic representations
LORELAI KURY
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Fieldtrips and collections: aspects of a Paleontology controversy
MARIA MARGARET LOPES
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The botanist and the maecenas: João Barbosa Rodrigues and science in Brazil in the second half of the nineteenth century
MAGALI ROMERO SÁ
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Keeping an eye on Brazil: Medical Geography and Alphonse Rendu’s journey
FLAVIO C. EDLER
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La dive bouteille: voyages, alcools et remèdes dans les deux hémisphères XVIe-XXe siècle
JEAN-PIERRE GOUBERT
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Natural History collecting and the Biogeographical tradition
JANET BROWNE
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On the physical and moral understanding of peoples: Iconography and Taxonomy in Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira’s Philosophical Journey
RONALD RAMINELLI
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Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira and capitania de Mato Grosso: images of the Brazilian inland
MARIA DE FÁTIMA COSTA
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Travellers and Biogeography
NELSON PAPAVERO and DANTE MARTINS TEIXEIRA
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Five images and multiple views: ‘discoveries’ about Brazilian indians and nineteenth-century photography
MARCOS MOREL
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Shared memories: eighteenth-century travellers and the concept of a “cocoa civilization”
LUCIA MARIA PASCHOAL GUIMARÃES
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Travelling objects
GUILLERMO GIUCCI
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Feathers in fashion
HELMUT SCHINDLER
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TESTIMONY
Johann Baptist Ritter von Spix, the first zoologist of Munich and the first researcher of Brazil
ERNST JOSEF FITTKAU
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