Ciencia útil en los ilustrados del Nuevo Reino de Granada (desde la llegada de Mutis hasta el Semanario del Nuevo Reyno de Granada)

Abstract

This article aims to show how the reference to auseful science in the second half of the eighteenth century, in the New Kingdom of Granada, embracedan organic link between certain sciences and government prio -rities. Geography, botany, chemistry, medicine and, particu larly, natu ral history, provided information on the resources available for the economic reorganization of the Spanish empire. The creole scientists who devoted themselves to useful sciences ended up being promoters of reforms that they presented before the public opinion, as a way of collective debate, as in the case of Semana-rio del Nuevo Reyno de Granada.

Keywords

• enlightment
• science
• government
• royal botanical expedition
• state