Abstract

LOAIZA CANO, Gilberto. Useful science among the Ilustrados of the New Kingdom of Granada (from the arrival of Mutis to Semanario del Nuevo Reyno de Granada). Co-herencia [online]. 2019, vol.16, n.31, pp.47-76. ISSN 1794-5887.  https://doi.org/10.17230/co-herencia.16.31.2.

This article aims to show how the reference to a useful science in the second half of the eighteenth century, in the New Kingdom of Granada, embraced an organic link between certain sciences and government priorities. Geography, botany, chemistry, medicine and, particularly, natural history, provided information on the resources available for the economic reorganization of the Spanish empire. The creole scientists who devoted themselves to useful sciences ended up being promoters of reforms that they presented before the public opinion, as a way of collective debate, as in the case of Semanario del Nuevo Reyno de Granada.

Keywords : Enlightment; science; government; royal botanical expedition; state..

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