Natural Science Books Images of Flora and Fauna

In addition to being beautiful, due to the astonishing graphic richness of the copies presented, this book is important and enriching. Here we offer a fresh perspective on what the development of scientific thought was like in Europe before the Botanical Expedition, an enterprise that in the New Kingdom of Granada was fueled and promoted by the novel research methods that are evident in this volume. . Indeed, there are indications to believe that some of the titles reviewed belonged to Mutis or members of his circle. This book is the sixth in the series that the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and Villegas Editores began in 2009 to publicize the extraordinary artistic and bibliographic heritage that the Company of Jesus has in Bogotá.