João Barbosa Rodrigues and “Queen Rubber”: An innovative scientific culture
Abstract This work presents the history of rubber in the Amazon based on an article by João Barbosa Rodrigues. In his text, he emphasized the age of the traditional knowledge used by the native populations in the Americas to produce the various objects made from rubber. He showed how European scient...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro
2023-01-01
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Series: | Rodriguésia |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2175-78602022000101005&tlng=en |