Introduction: natural history and visual culture in the Spanish empire -- A botanical reconquista -- Natural history and visual epistemology -- Painting as exploration -- Economic botany and the limits of the visual -- Visions of imperial nature: global white space, local color -- Conclusion: the empire as an image machine
Summary
Bleichmar uses these images to trace two related histories - the little-known history of scientific expeditions in the Hispanic Enlightenment and the history of visual evidence in both science and administration in the early modern Spanish empire
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-271) and index
Notes
Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries (CBHL) Annual Literature Award - Nominee, 2013