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Darrera modificació: 2017-12-10
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Pardo-Tomás, José, "East Indies, West Indies: Garcia de Orta and the spanish treatises on exotic materia medica", dins: Fontes da Costa, Palmira (ed.), Medicine, Trade and Empire: Garcia de Orta's Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India in Context, Farnham, Ashgate, 2015, 195-212.
- Resum
- The arrival of the first copies of the Colóquios in the Iberian Peninsula marked an important change in the orientation of the study of spices and exotic materia medica. For the next 15 years the Iberian presses proved to be highly active in publishing various works on the subject, some of which rapidly achieved considerable success on the European market, to judge from the number of translations and editions to which they gave rise. This boom provoked by the arrival of the Colóquios appears to have stopped suddenly in 1580, the year of the unification of the Portuguese and Spanish Crowns in the person of Philip II. It could be said that the Hispanic imperial agenda on the communication of knowledge of materia medica deriving from the overseas territories was modified by the arrival of the work of Garcia de Orta and that, after 15 years of a policy of encouraging the circulation of that material, the unification of the Crowns brought with it a further change in that imperial agenda by blocking the continuity of that circulation, at least as far as printed works are concerned. The aim of this chapter is to analyse the works produced in the Iberian Peninsula during that 15-year period in order to demonstrate not only the importance and influence of the work of Garcia de Orta, but also the direct or indirect link between the Crown and publishing ventures during those years and the consequent silence that was imposed from 1580 on. The recent historiography on the imperial policies of the Iberian kingdoms and their significant intervention in the circulation of the knowledge that flowed from their overseas expansion and the scientific and technical challenges.
- Matèries
- Història de la ciència
Història natural - Vegetals
Història de la medicina
- URL
- https://www.academia.edu/17743781/East_Indies_West_ ...
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