As ciências naturais e a construção da nação brasileira

Authors

  • Heloísa M. Bertol Domingues

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9141.v0i135p41-59

Keywords:

Brazil, 19th century, natural sciences, agrarian policies, scientific commissions

Abstract

This article broaches the relations between natural sciences and the Brazilian imperial governments policy undertaken during the mid-1800s in order to consolidate national unity. To accomplish such a purpose, the govemment encouraged the exploration of the country's hinterland by organizing and sending scientific commissions to different regions of the country to study its geography, geology, botany, zoology, astronomy, and ethnology. Besides regarding Brazil's nature as a political object, this policy emphasized the role of natural sciences in the country and the institutionalized some of their branches.

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Published

1996-12-30

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DOMINGUES, Heloísa M. Bertol. As ciências naturais e a construção da nação brasileira . Revista de História, São Paulo, n. 135, p. 41–59, 1996. DOI: 10.11606/issn.2316-9141.v0i135p41-59. Disponível em: https://revistas.usp.br/revhistoria/article/view/18795.. Acesso em: 19 may. 2024.