A Natureza e a g?nese das Minas do Sul nos livros de Andr? Jo?o Antonil e Sebasti?o da Rocha Pita.

Este artigo trata do sentido cosmol?gico da Natureza, em voga na ?poca das representa??es do barroco (s?culos XVII e XVIII), quando aplicado ao contexto novo da Am?rica portuguesa com o descobrimento das Minas de ouro. Dois autores da Bahia foram significativos das primeiras vis?es de Natureza e da sociedade das Minas do ouro:Andr? Jo?o Antonil e Sebasti?o da Rocha Pita. Ambos produziram obras sobre a g?nese do espa?o minerador, buscando, de algum modo, integr?-lo a uma hist?ria providencial da coloniza??o portuguesa. Para isso, investiram em temas e imagens que, al?m de condicionados por evidentes interesses pol?ticos e econ?micos dos plantadores do litoral, refletem os v?nculos discursivos dos coloniais eruditos.This work deals with the cosmological sense of the Nature, which has been intensively studied at the time of baroc representations (17th and 18th centuries), applied to the Portuguese America new context of gold mines discoveries. Two authors from Bahia were very important to the early views on the Nature and on the society in gold mines: Andr? Jo?o Antonil and Sebasti?o da Rocha Pita. Both have made studies about the genesis of the mining space in such a way to integrate it in an opportune history of the Portuguese colonization. To do this, they dealed mainly with subjects and images which reveal discourse links of colonial wise persons, and also which were influenced by political and economical interests of the coastal farmers