Em busca de Aimé Bonpland (1773-1858): uma viagem na fronteira entre arte, ciência e história
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| Publication Date: | 2024 |
| Formato: | Doctoral thesis |
| Idioma: | por |
| Fonte: | Repositório Institucional da UPF |
| Download full: | https://repositorio.upf.br/handle/123456789/10305 |
Resumo: | This thesis has to analyze the representations of nature by the French doctor and botanist Aimé Bonpland (1773-1858). Bonpland visited South America twice. The first time, during a trip between 1799 and 1804, traveling for countries of Venezuela, Cuba, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Mexico, in the company of Alexander Von Humboldt. In 1816, Bonpland returned to live in Latin America, a portion of South America formed by three nations: Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay, remaining in region until the end of his life. During this period, Bonpland was involved with the main intellectual circles and political leaders, establishing numerous connections. In addition to making important contributions to science, he acted as merchant and doctor, bringing health and comfort in the illnessess. He became known for his descriptions of plants and their uses, responsible for cataloging different species of yerba mate, araucaria and medicinal plants. The sources analyzed in the research are letters, manuscripts and drawings that correspond to the period of 1818 and 1857. For this analysis,the method was used that combined bibliographical review and documentary analysis to propose the thesis that Bonpland representations of nature present unique and particular characteristics that differentiate them from other travelers, such as written representation articulated with images and a utilitarian and commercial vision of nature. His wasty writing uses Latin, French and the Guarani language, recordingl his daily life, his memories, people and places he traveled, the commercial exchanges he established and his desire to build large agricultural enterprises. In these reports, drawing acts as a record of their objects of study, his perspective was the scientist who uses drawing as a resource to record their observations and facilitate understanding. And although during this period an aesthetic sense motivated by romanticism and the advancement of botanical illustration techniques, printing and scientific publications was in vogue, the drawings that Bonpland produced were pencil sketches that were forgotten in his study notebooks. |