Vol. 8 • supplement 2001

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