“From the needs of the Diaries, and Methods of doing them”: texts for the instruction of naturalists and for the investigation of nature in the overseas domains in the 18th century

• Autor(a) principal: Segantini, Verona Campos
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Neves, Marta Eloisa Melgaço
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Antíteses
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/antiteses/article/view/39769
• topic: Natural history; Philosophical travel; Instructions; University of Coimbra.; História; História natural; Viagens filosóficas; Instruções; Universidade de Coimbra; História

The text is a result of a broader research that seeks to investigate the creation of scientific spaces, including museums and natural history offices in the 18th century, linked mainly to universities and whose purpose was to support the activities of teaching nature research. It intends to analyze the significant producing texts that behaved in scientific and pedagogical features written in the context of Pombal Reforms and Portuguese illustration. Instructions and methods were developed by professors from the University of Coimbra, such as DomingosVandelli and Luso-Brazilian naturalists who worked in the Portuguese administration and aimed to outline the making of natural history. They sought, pedagogically, to systematize methods of how to observe and register the products of nature, as well as to instruct on the ways to collect, prepare and send specimens, contributing to the production of knowledge and information on the overseas domains.