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对艺术和科学，旧世界和新世界交织在一起的历史的前所未有的视觉探索从克里斯托弗·哥伦布的航行到亚历山大·冯·洪堡和查尔斯·达尔文的航行，对自然世界的描绘在塑造人们的方式中发挥了核心作用大西洋两岸都了解并描绘了我们现在所知的拉丁美洲地区。大自然为勘探，贸易商品，科学调查标本和神力的表现提供了激励。它还产生了丰富的代表性，由当地人和该地区的游客创建，这是这本插图丰富的图书的主题。作者Daniela Bleichmar表明，这些图像不仅是艺术作品，也是知识生产的工具，具有科学，社会性，和政治影响。早期对拉丁美洲性质的描述向欧洲观众介绍了本土药物和宗教习俗。到了17世纪，烟草，巧克力和胭脂红的启示性描述重塑了全球的科学，贸易和帝国。在18和19世纪，收藏和科学考察产生了拉丁美洲的爱国和帝国的愿景。通过跨越150多幅地图，插图手稿，静物画和四百年的山水画的跨学科考察，Visual Voyages将拉丁美洲建成科学和艺术探索的重要场所，肯定该地区的转型和欧洲的转型是至关重要的连通历史。早期对拉丁美洲性质的描述向欧洲观众介绍了本土药物和宗教习俗。到了17世纪，烟草，巧克力和胭脂红的启示性描述重塑了全球的科学，贸易和帝国。在18和19世纪，收藏和科学考察产生了拉丁美洲的爱国和帝国的愿景。通过跨越150多幅地图，插图手稿，静物画和四百年的山水画的跨学科考察，Visual Voyages将拉丁美洲建成科学和艺术探索的重要场所，肯定该地区的转型和欧洲的转型是至关重要的连通历史。早期对拉丁美洲性质的描述向欧洲观众介绍了本土药物和宗教习俗。到了17世纪，烟草，巧克力和胭脂红的启示性描述重塑了全球的科学，贸易和帝国。在18和19世纪，收藏和科学考察产生了拉丁美洲的爱国和帝国的愿景。通过跨越150多幅地图，插图手稿，静物画和四百年的山水画的跨学科考察。

An unprecedented visual exploration of the intertwined histories of art and science, of the old world and the new From the voyages of Christopher Columbus to those of Alexander von Humboldt and Charles Darwin, the depiction of the natural world played a central role in shaping how people on both sides of the Atlantic understood and imaged the region we now know as Latin America. Nature provided incentives for exploration, commodities for trade, specimens for scientific investigation, and manifestations of divine forces. It also yielded a rich trove of representations, created both by natives to the region and visitors, which are the subject of this lushly illustrated book. Author Daniela Bleichmar shows that these images were not only works of art but also instruments for the production of knowledge, with scientific, social, and political repercussions. Early depictions of Latin American nature introduced European audiences to native medicines and religious practices. By the 17th century, revelatory accounts of tobacco, chocolate, and cochineal reshaped science, trade, and empire around the globe. In the 18th and 19th centuries, collections and scientific expeditions produced both patriotic and imperial visions of Latin America. Through an interdisciplinary examination of more than 150 maps, illustrated manuscripts, still lifes, and landscape paintings spanning four hundred years, Visual Voyages establishes Latin America as a critical site for scientific and artistic exploration, affirming that region's transformation and the transformation of Europe as vitally connected histories.