Mutis y la Real Expedicion Botanica del Nuevo Reyno de Granada (Real Jardin Botanico Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas Madrid) (Spanish Edition)

With a wealth of illustrations, photographs, drawings, and reproductions of the original engravings made to describe the local flora on the voyage, this thorough account is a description of, and a testament to, the expedition undertaken in 1783 by Spanish botanist and mathematician José Celestino Mutis. Period-specific maps present a unique view of colonial South America, and the accompanying texts affirm that Mutis’s journey was as much a cultural and social enterprise as it was a scientific one that laid the groundwork for what would become Colombia.