Natural history - History Lab https://historylab.es Tue, 10 Jan 2023 18:48:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Natural history - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Natural history and scientific literature of travel https://historylab.es/natural-history-and-scientific-literature-of-travel/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=natural-history-and-scientific-literature-of-travel Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:41:33 +0000 https://historylab.es/natural-history-and-scientific-literature-of-travel/ Robert Boyle and his essay General Heads for a Natural History of a Country, Great or Small codifying the scientific literature of travel

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]]> In 1666, in the Royal Society’s scientific journal, Philosophical Transactions, Robert Boyle, the most important exponent of experimental philosophy in late 17th century England, published the short essay General Heads for a Natural History of a Country, Great or small (pp. 186-189). It will be the theoretical framework, in general terms, for travel literature, which will gradually include objective accounts and scientific reports, often accompanied by drawings and illustrations, to give the reader back the reality observed with verifiable accuracy and with increasing attention to anthropological, ethnographic, archaeological… aspects, in order to be able to advance hypotheses of natural history.

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