In nineteenth-century Chile, naturalists and their supporters argued that scientific work and
study, including natural history, were good for individuals and society because they …

This article examines the study of natural history on the imperial periphery in late colonial
Spanish America. It considers the problems that afflicted peripheral naturalists—lack of …

This essay examines contemporary Latin American historical writing about natural history
from the nineteenth through the twentieth centuries. Natural history is a “network science,” …

This essay explores how indigenous knowledge about plant and animal remedies was
gathered, classified, tested, and circulated across wide networks of exchange for natural …

Originally presented at the 'Visualizing Colonial Nature: Science in the Spanish Americas'
panel for the History of Science Society in 2002, these three essays represent an emerging …

Science in Latin America has roots that reach back to the information gathering and
recording practices of the Maya, Aztec, and Inca civilizations. Spanish and Portuguese …

ArgumentThis paper addresses the complex process of inscribing the names of the
American natural world–both the natural species and the territories–in the records of the …

Through the exchange of specimens, seeds, and treatises, naturalists scattered throughout
the British Atlantic created the network of connections that together constituted the …

Even when Spanish or Spanish American authors of scientific texts consciously erased
Amerindian or African sources and Christianized local information and practices, their …

This study offers a cultural history of natural history in the early American republic. It focuses
on natural knowledge conflicts to expose epistemological dissonance, competing rules of …