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Daniela Bleichmar, Visual Voyages: Images of Latin American Nature from Columbus to Darwin, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2017, 240 p.

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Daniela Bleichmar, Visual Voyages: Images of Latin American Nature from Columbus to Darwin, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2017, 240 p.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 November 2022

Antonella Romano
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Histoire environnementale (comptes rendus)
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Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales , Volume 77 , Issue 1 , March 2022 , pp. 181 - 183
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References

1 Daniela Bleichmar, Visible Empire: Botanical Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2012.

2 Galilée, L ’ essayeur de Galilée, éd. et trad. par C. Chauviré, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, [1623] 1979, p. 141 : « La philosophie est écrite dans cet immense livre qui se tient toujours ouvert devant nos yeux, je veux dire l’Univers, mais on ne peut le comprendre si l’on ne s’applique d’abord à en comprendre la langue et à connaître les caractères avec lesquels il est écrit. Il est écrit dans la langue mathématique […] ».

3 Daniela Bleichmar et al., Science in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires, 1500-1800, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2008.

4 Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, How to Write the History of the New World: Histories, Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2002 ; id., Puritan Conquistadors: Iberianizing the Atlantic, 1550-1700, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2006 ; id., Nature, Empire, and Nation: Explorations of the History of Science in the Iberian World, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2006. C’est toutefois son article « Iberian Science in the Renaissance: Ignored How Much Longer? », Perspectives on Science, 12-1, p. 86-124, qui a engagé ce combat.