La medida de América: de la observación métrica ilustrada española al empirismo razonado humboldtiano
In its colonial aspect, Enlightenment science was obsessed with measuring a territory with objective observations made by using an ever-increasing arsenal of scientific instruments. In the Spanish Empire, there were a countless number of maritime and overland expeditions tasked with this difficult m...
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| description | In its colonial aspect, Enlightenment science was obsessed with measuring a territory with objective observations made by using an ever-increasing arsenal of scientific instruments. In the Spanish Empire, there were a countless number of maritime and overland expeditions tasked with this difficult mission, one upon which other colonial powers, such as England and France, had already embarked. In fact, some of the first scientific missions were undertaken by French explorers, almost always members of the Académie des Sciences de Paris, a prestigious institution with a great deal of experience in the use of scientific instruments. At the turn of the century, Alexander von Humboldt carried on this obsession with the use of scientific instruments in the study of nature, though he also posed more general questions about the natural equilibrium and the relationship between living beings and inanimate nature, as guided by a reasoned empiricism and determined by both measurement and the subjective sensibilities of the observer, which marked one of the key transitional moments between the Enlightenment and the Age of Romanticism. |
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| spelling | oai:oai.historiamexicana.colmex.mx:article-34742023-10-11T17:58:18Z The Measure of America: From the Metric Observation of the Spanish Enlightenment to the Reasoned Empiricism of Humboldt La medida de América: de la observación métrica ilustrada española al empirismo razonado humboldtiano Puig-Samper, Miguel Ángel America Humboldt Scientific Expeditions Enlightenment 19th Century América Humboldt expediciones científicas Ilustración siglo XIX In its colonial aspect, Enlightenment science was obsessed with measuring a territory with objective observations made by using an ever-increasing arsenal of scientific instruments. In the Spanish Empire, there were a countless number of maritime and overland expeditions tasked with this difficult mission, one upon which other colonial powers, such as England and France, had already embarked. In fact, some of the first scientific missions were undertaken by French explorers, almost always members of the Académie des Sciences de Paris, a prestigious institution with a great deal of experience in the use of scientific instruments. At the turn of the century, Alexander von Humboldt carried on this obsession with the use of scientific instruments in the study of nature, though he also posed more general questions about the natural equilibrium and the relationship between living beings and inanimate nature, as guided by a reasoned empiricism and determined by both measurement and the subjective sensibilities of the observer, which marked one of the key transitional moments between the Enlightenment and the Age of Romanticism. La ciencia ilustrada en su vertiente colonial se obsesionó en tomar las medidas del territorio y en objetivar sus observaciones científicas, usando un arsenal cada vez mayor de instrumentos científicos, lo que en el caso español se tradujo en el envío de innumerables expediciones marítimas y terrestres encargadas de esta difícil misión, en la que ya estaban embarcadas otras potencias como Inglaterra y Francia. De hecho, algunas de las primeras experiencias en este sentido se hicieron de la mano de los científicos franceses, casi siempre por encargo de la Académie des Sciences de Paris, una institución de prestigio con experiencia en el uso de instrumentos científicos. En el cambio de siglo, Alexander von Humboldt siguió obsesionado por el uso de sus instrumentos científicos en el estudio de la Naturaleza, aunque se planteaba otras cuestiones más generales sobre el equilibrio natural y las relaciones globales que unían a los seres organizados con la naturaleza inanimada, guiado por un empirismo razonado característico de la ciencia humboldtiana, determinada por la medición y la sensibilidad subjetiva, en un momento clave del paso de la Ilustración al Romanticismo. El Colegio de México, A.C. 2017-10-01 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf text/xml https://historiamexicana.colmex.mx/index.php/RHM/article/view/3474 10.24201/hm.v67i2.3474 Historia Mexicana; Vol. 67, Núm. 2 (266) octubre-diciembre 2017; 907-963 2448-6531 0185-0172 spa https://historiamexicana.colmex.mx/index.php/RHM/article/view/3474/3253 https://historiamexicana.colmex.mx/index.php/RHM/article/view/3474/3385 Derechos de autor 2017 Historia Mexicana |
| spellingShingle | America Humboldt Scientific Expeditions Enlightenment 19th Century América Humboldt expediciones científicas Ilustración siglo XIX Puig-Samper, Miguel Ángel La medida de América: de la observación métrica ilustrada española al empirismo razonado humboldtiano |
| title | La medida de América: de la observación métrica ilustrada española al empirismo razonado humboldtiano |
| title_alt | The Measure of America: From the Metric Observation of the Spanish Enlightenment to the Reasoned Empiricism of Humboldt |
| title_full | La medida de América: de la observación métrica ilustrada española al empirismo razonado humboldtiano |
| title_fullStr | La medida de América: de la observación métrica ilustrada española al empirismo razonado humboldtiano |
| title_full_unstemmed | La medida de América: de la observación métrica ilustrada española al empirismo razonado humboldtiano |
| title_short | La medida de América: de la observación métrica ilustrada española al empirismo razonado humboldtiano |
| title_sort | la medida de america de la observacion metrica ilustrada espanola al empirismo razonado humboldtiano |
| topic | America Humboldt Scientific Expeditions Enlightenment 19th Century América Humboldt expediciones científicas Ilustración siglo XIX |
| topic_facet | America Humboldt Scientific Expeditions Enlightenment 19th Century América Humboldt expediciones científicas Ilustración siglo XIX |
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