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This chapter focuses on botanical collecting, an important aspect of Spanish scientific voyaging in the Enlightenment and one of the most significant achievements of the Malaspina expedition. I will discuss the expedition’s collecting in the Philippine Islands, Spain’s Pacific possession. The information collected by the expedition, I will show, was distinguished by scientific accuracy, the pursuit of which profoundly influenced all the expedition’s data-gathering tasks, from surveying and mapping to botanizing and drawing.
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Reyes, R.A.G. (2013). Collecting and the Pursuit of Scientific Accuracy: The Malaspina Expedition in the Philippines, 1792. In: Boomgaard, P. (eds) Empire and Science in the Making. Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137334022_3
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