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| Author(s): |
Marcelo Fetz
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas |
| Defense date: | 2012-10-16 |
| Examining board members: |
Leila da Costa Ferreira;
Sergio Barreira de Faria Tavolaro;
José Augusto Pádua;
Lúcia da Costa Ferreira;
Thomas Michael Lewinsohn
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| Advisor: | Leila da Costa Ferreira |
| Abstract | |
The research in sociology of science shows the rise of scientific thought in different societies as a specific historical process, even though unique, directly connected with others cultural spheres (political, economic and social). These features were highlighted by Robert K. Merton and Joseph Ben-David, when studying the rise of the scientific community and the institutionalization of science in European countries. In Brazil, however, few research studies focused the understanding of national science in its pre-institutional phase. In this thesis, we present the rise of scientific thought in Brazil understanding it as a reflection of the changes performed during the Second Scientific Revolution, in the passage of the eighteenth to the nineteenth century. Under the influence of the Romantic Science, the scientific thought in Brazil was shaped by the inspiration of the so-called scientific travel literature - a variety of scientific systematic knowledge based on "aesthetical reasoning", "lyrical reasoning" and "scientific reasoning". In other words, the natural science in Brazil begin their process of local dissemination as a science organized between formal reason and artistic enjoyment, a science that would be institutionalized only at the beginning of the second half of the nineteenth century. This research presents a historical analysis of the connections between literatures, landscapes painting and scientific thought, by the understanding of the scientific travel narratives written in Brazil by traveler naturalists in the first half of the nineteenth century (Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied, Wilhelm Ludwig von Eschwege and Carl Fridriech F. von Martius) (AU) | |