TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bleichmar,Daniela
TI  - Visible empire: botanical expeditions and visual culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment 
SN  - 9780226058535 :
AV  - QK21.S7 B54 2012
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Chicago, London
PB  - The University of Chicago Press
KW  - Botany
KW  - Spain
KW  - Colonies
KW  - History
KW  - Scientific expeditions
KW  - Botanical illustration
KW  - Natural history
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-271) and index; 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
ER  -