The expansion of the utilitarian science and the accession of the Bourbons to the throne had a great impact on the Spain of the Enlightment Era. While most of the actions undertaken across the Pyrenees, were in imitation of the French enterprises, the exploitation of the natural resources of the New World did not follow the physiocratic standards peculiar to France. The Spanish efforts concentrated on studying American vegetables with medicinal virtues, in order to get the commercial monopoly of some plants - like cinchona - essential to the treatment of some diseases. This singular and utopian plan, its history, its development and its conclusion are examined here, and the obtained results are estimated with regards to the original program...
En la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII llegaron a la Nueva España dos expediciones científicas española...
Desde hace unos veinte años, la manera de ver las propiedades colectivas ha cambiado mucho. Tanto lo...
Bénézet Jean-Pierre. La fructueuse cueillette de plantes médicinales en Amérique du Sud au XVIIIe si...
The expansion of the utilitarian science and the accession of the Bourbons to the throne had a great...
Texte intégral accessible uniquement aux membres de l'Université de Lorraine jusqu'au 2025-01-01The...
Le but de cette thèse est d’étudier comment, suite à la conquête de l’Amérique, les Européens se son...
This paper proposes some ideas to explain the role the botanical discipline played in Hispanic Enlig...
Under the reign of Carlos III the Spanish government set up ambitious expeditions to the New World i...
In the 1630s, Europeans encountered a medicinal tree bark in South America known as quina. This bark...
Numerosos trabajos han mostrado hasta que punto las Américas constituyen un terreno tanto complejo c...
Describes the reform movement which Linnaeus' new system introduced in European botany, and its incr...
International audienceThe Spain’s Enlightenment that, unlike other European countries, had not exper...
The second half of the eighteenth century in Spain, symbolized by Charles III’s ascension to the thr...
After the discovery of America, plants travelled even more, along with people. In the mixtec land (M...
AbstarctHemp became a first order strategic commodity for the maritime Empires during the modern age...
En la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII llegaron a la Nueva España dos expediciones científicas española...
Desde hace unos veinte años, la manera de ver las propiedades colectivas ha cambiado mucho. Tanto lo...
Bénézet Jean-Pierre. La fructueuse cueillette de plantes médicinales en Amérique du Sud au XVIIIe si...
The expansion of the utilitarian science and the accession of the Bourbons to the throne had a great...
Texte intégral accessible uniquement aux membres de l'Université de Lorraine jusqu'au 2025-01-01The...
Le but de cette thèse est d’étudier comment, suite à la conquête de l’Amérique, les Européens se son...
This paper proposes some ideas to explain the role the botanical discipline played in Hispanic Enlig...
Under the reign of Carlos III the Spanish government set up ambitious expeditions to the New World i...
In the 1630s, Europeans encountered a medicinal tree bark in South America known as quina. This bark...
Numerosos trabajos han mostrado hasta que punto las Américas constituyen un terreno tanto complejo c...
Describes the reform movement which Linnaeus' new system introduced in European botany, and its incr...
International audienceThe Spain’s Enlightenment that, unlike other European countries, had not exper...
The second half of the eighteenth century in Spain, symbolized by Charles III’s ascension to the thr...
After the discovery of America, plants travelled even more, along with people. In the mixtec land (M...
AbstarctHemp became a first order strategic commodity for the maritime Empires during the modern age...
En la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII llegaron a la Nueva España dos expediciones científicas española...
Desde hace unos veinte años, la manera de ver las propiedades colectivas ha cambiado mucho. Tanto lo...
Bénézet Jean-Pierre. La fructueuse cueillette de plantes médicinales en Amérique du Sud au XVIIIe si...