%0 Journal Article
%T Science and Passion in America
%A Sagredo Baeza
%A Rafael
%J Culture & History Digital Journal
%D 2012
%I Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient¨ªficas
%R 10.3989/chdj.2012.m103
%X In addition to increasing our knowledge and understanding of the naturalists who explored America at various times, particularly in the 18th and 19th centuries, we seek to discuss the personal, intimate, private, and sentimental nature of individuals who are usually described as well-bred, parsimonious, unfeeling, objective, rigorous, and methodical. For the same reason, perhaps, they are assumed to have stayed aloof from any form of sentimental or passionate relationships in the course of their excursions, despite the fact that the latter often lasted not for months but for years, and that in some instances were not conducted overland but involved prolonged voyages on the high seas. Adem¨¢s de avanzar en el conocimiento y comprensi¨®n de los naturalistas que exploraron Am¨¦rica en alg¨²n momento, particularmente en los siglos XVIII y XIX, nos interesa relevar la dimensi¨®n personal, ¨ªntima, privada, sentimental, de sujetos que corrientemente son presentados como hombres comedidos, parcos, fr¨ªos, objetivos, rigurosos y met¨®dicos y, tal vez por eso, se supone, ajenos a cualquier tipo de relaci¨®n sentimental o pasional durante sus excursiones. Esto, a pesar de que muchas de ellas se prolongaron no ya por meses, sino que por a os y que algunas de ellas no fueron itinerarios terrestres, sino que esencialmente mar¨ªtimos, con largas temporadas en alta mar.
%K history of science
%K American history
%K naturalists
%K passions
%K emotions
%K historia de la ciencia
%K historia de Am¨¦rica
%K naturalistas
%K pasiones
%K emociones
%U http://cultureandhistory.revistas.csic.es/index.php/cultureandhistory/article/view/13/49