História (Jan 2008)

Escritos, imagens e artefatos: ou a viagem de Thevet à França Antártica Writings, images and artifacts: or Thevet’s voyage to the French Antarctic

  • Ronald José Raminelli

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/S0101-90742008000100011
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 27, no. 1
pp. 195 – 212

Abstract

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Por meio de escritos, imagens e artefatos, frei André Thevet, cosmógrafo do rei da França, recriava plantas, animais, povos e geografia do Novo Mundo. Os recursos gráficos e as coleções permitiam-no mobilizar informações, comprovar seus registros escritos e, por certo, disponibilizar esses dados ao rei, nobres e demais curiosos. Os avanços da imprensa tornaram possível o conhecimento sobre mundos distantes, saber que atingia, cada vez mais, um público mais vasto, enquanto as coleções permaneceram restritas ao circuito aristocrático. Pretende-se, portanto, investigar os "elementos americanos" escolhidos e recolhidos por Thevet para testemunhar sua viagem e torná-la presente, ou representada, para seus contemporâneos.Through his writings, images and artifacts, Father Andre Thevet, the King of France's cosmographer, recreated the plants, animals, peoples and geography of the New World. The graphic resources and collections permitted the circulation of information, proved their written registers, and certainly made this data available to the King, nobles and other curious people. The advances of the printing press made it possible to spread the knowledge of the distant world, with the certainty that it reached more and more people, a much larger public, while the collections themselves remained restricted to the scope of the aristocrats. The intention thus is to investigate "American elements" chosen and gathered by Thevet to confirm his trip and make it evident or represented by his contemporaries.

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