O desvendar do grande livro da natureza : as praticas geocientificas no Brasil colonial por meio de um estudo da obra mineralogica e geologica do cientista brasileiro José Vieira Couto, 1798-1805

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1999

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ln the 80 s there was a movement of renovation in the Latin American science historiography. Since then the science has been seen not as an abstract and universal entity but as a practical activity which takes place in a concrete space and time. Through this new vision Latin American historians started making an inventory of the scientific activities in Latin American continent since its colonial ages. Under the light of this new concept, the present dissertation is a contribution to both the general history of Brazil and the history of science since it is a contextual study about a scientist and his scientific work that allows us to understand the historical moment where that scientist lived and practiced his scientific work. The scientist in question is José Vieira Couto (1752-1827), whose research in the field of mineralogy and geology is strong evidence which shows us how the earth was studied in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. José Vieira Couto s researches (1798-1805) resulted in 4 Memoirs, as the scientific texts were usually referred to that time. This dissertation presents a contextual analysis of those Memoirs taking into consideration the historical and scientific situation of that period. lts preeminent objective is to show how the geoscientific studies were carried out in colonial Brazil

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geociencias - brasil - historia

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