Questionnaires, instructions and circulation of natural objects between Spain and America (16th and 18th centuries)

This paper studies a set of questionnaires and instructions issued by the Spanish crown during the 18th century which pursued the direction of the collecting and dispatching practices of American natural objects by the colonial authorities. These documents are characterized as a kind of administrati...

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Autor principal: Figueroa, Marcelo
Formato: Artículo revista
Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Centro de Estudios Históricos Profesor Carlos S. A. Segreti 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/anuarioceh/article/view/22704
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Sumario:This paper studies a set of questionnaires and instructions issued by the Spanish crown during the 18th century which pursued the direction of the collecting and dispatching practices of American natural objects by the colonial authorities. These documents are characterized as a kind of administrative and scientific protocol related to the Natural history research of the colonies, they had the political power of the crown as a principal base. This paper ends with the study of three naturalist remissions from the Río de la Plata viceroyalty which are used as examples in order to illuminate the development of the collecting practices on ground.