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Description: The Sexual Method for Plants Described in the Systemate Naturae of the Most...

TitleThe Sexual Method for Plants Described in the Systemate Naturae of the Most Illustrious Linnaeus, M.D. (Clariss: Linnaei M.D. methodus plantarum sexualis in sistemate naturae descripta)

Creator nameEhret, Georg Dionysius

Creator nationality/cultureGerman

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1736

Object typePrint

MaterialsCopperplate engraving

LocationBiblioteca del Real Jardín Botánico-CSIC, Madrid

Accession numberOf LIN S-39

SubjectsPlants--ClassificationPlants--ReproductionNatural history--Latin America

StatusLeiden, 1736

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Chapter 3: Collecting: From Wonder to Order

Daniela Bleichmar

Visual Voyages: Images of Latin American Nature from Columbus to Darwin

~The early modern period was the first truly global era, a time of unprecedented voyages and encounters. Although explorers, conquistadors, settlers, missionaries, traders, and slaves journeyed farther than ever before, the great...

Author

Daniela Bleichmar

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.91-155

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00268.004

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21538&redirecttoanchor=68451

Chapter subject tags:Natural history--Latin AmericaVisual culture--Latin AmericaCollectors and collecting--Latin America--16th centuryCabinets of curiositiesNaturalists--Latin America--16th centuryBotanical illustration--Latin AmericaLigozzi, Jacopo, 1547-1626Dal Pozzo, Cassiano, 1588-1657Dutch--BrazilEeckhout, Albert van der, active 1637-1664Post, Frans Jansz, 1612-1680Indigenous peoples--Latin AmericaIndigenous peoples--BrazilTropical fruit--Latin AmericaMerian, Maria Sibylla, 1647-1717Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778Natural history--Classification

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