Collecting and the Pursuit of Scientific Accuracy: The Malaspina Expedition in the Philippines, 1792

  • Raquel A. G. Reyes
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Abstract

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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Eighteenth Century Scientific Accuracy Philippine Island Scientific Expedition Visual Culture 
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