SCIENCE AND NATURE FOR THE EMPIRE’S WEALTH: THE BARON ESCHWEGE AND THE MINERALOGIST’S PROJECT FOR BRAZIL DURING THE XIX CENTURY

The purpose of this article is to analyze some characteristics of about the work of theBaron Wilhelm Ludwig von Eschwege, naturalist, mineralist, geologist, paleontologist andGerman cartographist that lived in Brazil in the period of 1810 to 1821. He was born in 1777,descendant from the German arist...

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Main Authors: Sheila Maria Doula, Thaís Helena de Almeida Slaibi, Maria Fernanda de Aguiar Costa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Editora da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia 2005-05-01
Series:Revista Sociedade & Natureza
Online Access:http://www.sociedadenatureza.ig.ufu.br/include/getdoc.php?id=1403&article=695&mode=pdf