Toward an Intercultural Natural History of Brazil

1. Locating Knowledge in Early Modern Brazil and India: A Comparative Study of Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (1648) and Hortus Malabaricus (1678-1693)

Anjana Singh and Mariana Francozo

2. Portuguese Parallels: Comparing Analogous Efforts toward Codifying Indigenous Medicinal Knowledge in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Brazil

Timothy D. Walker

3. Cover to Cover: A Book Historical Approach to the Historia Naturalis Brasiliae

Alex Alsemgeest and Jeroen Bos

4. Searching for Copaiba: Tracing the Quest for a Wound-Healing Oil by Early Explorers in Brazil

Tinde van Andel, Mariana Francozo, and Mireia Alcantara Rodriguez

5. An Imaginary Brazilian Zoo: Traditions and Innovations in the Portrayal of Animals in the Historia Naturalis Brasiliae

Annemarieke Willemsen

6. Marcgraf's Fish in the Historia Naturalis Brasiliae and the Rhetorics of Autoptic Testimony

Paul J. Smith

7. Reconnecting Knowledges: Historia Naturalis Brasiliae back to Indigenous Societies

Aline da Cruz and Walkiria Neiva Praca

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• História das Américas
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• História da Ciência
• Início da história moderna: c 1450/1500 a c 1700

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