Reyes, Raquel A. G. (2013) 'Collecting and the Pursuit of Scientific Accuracy: The Malaspina Expedition in the Philippines, 1792.' In: Boomgaard, Peter, (ed.), Empire and Science in the Making: Dutch colonial scholarship in comparative global perspective, 1760=1830. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 63-89. (Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology)
Abstract
This chapter focuses on botanical collecting, an important aspect of Spanish scientific voyaging in the Enlightenment and one of the most significant achievements of the Malaspina expedition. I will discuss the expedition’s collecting in the Philippine Islands, Spain’s Pacific possession. The information collected by the expedition, I will show, was distinguished by scientific accuracy, the pursuit of which profoundly influenced all the expedition’s data-gathering tasks, from surveying and mapping to botanizing and drawing.
| Item Type: | Book Chapters |
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| SOAS Departments & Centres: | Legacy Departments > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Department of History |
| ISBN: | 9781137334015 |
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137334022_3 |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Aug 2013 10:50 |
| URI: | https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/16888 |
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