Las fuentes para la construcción de conocimiento en los libros de historia natural del siglo XVI : el caso de Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y otros cronistas de las Indias Occidentales

The arrival of the Europeans in the New World led to the questioning of traditional natural knowledge authorities such as Pliny, as well as the implementation of new epistemological methods that managed to incorporate the exuberance of a nature never before seen within European reference frames. Works like the one of Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo facilitated this work: after crossing seas, oceans and rivers, conquering islands and mainland, the dominion over the New World was far from being considered like project culminated, still remained some unresolved issues, among them The dominion over the nature of the New World. Within this standardization of the knowledge that the New World supposed also had to be part of its nature. Gradually one should recognize, name and classify each of the objects that made up the American natural world. European travelers and naturalists had to tame the exotic, create ties, and transform nature into culture...

• Autores: Godoy Saldarriaga, David Santiago
• Tipo de recurso: Trabajo de grado de pregrado
• Fecha de publicación: 2016
• Institución: Universidad de los Andes
• Repositorio: Séneca: repositorio Uniandes
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.uniandes.edu.co:1992/61841
• Acceso en línea: http://hdl.handle.net/1992/61841
• Palabra clave: Historia natural; América
• Rights: openAccess
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/