Entre imagens e textos: os manuais como práxis de saber

Abstract

Entre imagens e textos: os manuais como práxis de saber ResumoProblematizamos uma série de gêneros textuais escritos durante o Iluminismo em Portugal, marcadamente entre 1720 e 1800, compreendendo-os na condição de manuais de saber, e apontamos alguns sentidos das imagens nesses escritos de ampla circulação no mundo lusobrasileiro.Palavras-chave: Iluminismo; manuais; cultura visual; história das ciências; técnica. AbstractWe investigate a series of writing genres from the Enlightenment in Portugal, especially between 1720 and 1800, comprehending them as manuals of knowledge, and we highlight some of the meanings of the images in these writings that were widely circulated in the Portuguese-speaking world.

A French author in a Brazilian library: Nerée Boubée (1806–1862) and his textbooks on geological sciences

“…(…) There were also a range of different terms used to refer to a textbook, which varied across languages, but in general indicated its connection with a course, its ad hoc teaching and learning purpose, its provision of the first elements of a subject, as an elementary treatise, or its manual quality as designed to be easily handled by young students." In Portugal, and Brazil, similar meanings may be found in dictionaries of the same time: Schiavinato & Pataca, 2016. 3 Haraway, 1988.…”

“…403–404, defines as following: “Between the mid‐eighteenth and mid‐nineteenth centuries, the term [textbook] emerged in different languages to mean a book originally conceived specially for instructional purposes within formal education. (…) There were also a range of different terms used to refer to a textbook, which varied across languages, but in general indicated its connection with a course , its ad hoc teaching and learning purpose, its provision of the first elements of a subject, as an elementary treatise , or its manual quality as designed to be easily handled by young students.” In Portugal, and Brazil, similar meanings may be found in dictionaries of the same time: Schiavinato & Pataca, .…”

Sobre um herbário ilustrado do início da Era Moderna traduzido para o português

“…Segundo escrevem, "a elaboração, a tradução e a publicação de livros que sintetizassem as discussões de cada área do saber tornaram-se grande desafio para a comunidade científica". 48 Sem dúvida, Vigier conseguiu arrostar -e com maestria -tal desafio.…”