2001
DOI: 10.1590/s0104-59702001000500003
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Analogies et contrastes entre l'expédition d'Egypte et le voyage d'Humboldt et Bonpland

Abstract: Alexandre de Humbodlt et Aimé Bonpland avaient prévu de se joindre aux savants de l'expédition française en Egypte. Ayant dû renoncer à ce projet et ayant obtenu l'autorisation du gouvernement espagnol, il réalisèrent leur voyage en Amérique Latine. La quasi-simultanéité des deux expéditions invite à une comparaison. Les points communs ne manquent pas: la production éditoriale au retour, le souci de rendre la science visible, l'importance du repérage spatial et de la collecte naturalistes. Cependant, malgré ce… Show more

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“…Intense investment in such ambitiously accurate instrumental surveys has principally been studied through the Latin American programs of Alexander von Humboldt and his collaborators. Comparison with exactly contemporary Egyptian survey projects shows how politically crucial was the manufacture and use of such measurement apparatus in the forging of orientalism (Drouin 2001).…”
Section: Introduction: Survey Sciences and Metrology's Inventionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Intense investment in such ambitiously accurate instrumental surveys has principally been studied through the Latin American programs of Alexander von Humboldt and his collaborators. Comparison with exactly contemporary Egyptian survey projects shows how politically crucial was the manufacture and use of such measurement apparatus in the forging of orientalism (Drouin 2001).…”
Section: Introduction: Survey Sciences and Metrology's Inventionmentioning
confidence: 99%