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- aggregation title "Transcriptions and descriptions of exotic fauna in Barlaeus' Rerum Per Octennium and De Laet's Historia Naturalis Brasiliae".
- aggregation abstract "This contribution deals with the Early Modern Dutch encounter with the New World. In particular, I focus on a number of descriptive passages from two influential textual legacies of the Dutch colonization of Brazil (1624-1654): the Rerum per Octennium (1647) by Caspar Barlaeus and the Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (1648) by Johannes de Laet. Both works contain a collection of descriptions that both reveal and construct the strange reality encountered by the Dutch colonisers in Brazil. I think through the function of these descriptions and by means of an analysis of some selected passages I show that the Dutch colonisers were not only driven by economic interests in their Brazilian adventure. More specifically the descriptive passages become textual loci of knowledge-transfer and specific rhetorical techniques sustain this transfer. The Dutch West India Company (WIC), a trade company created in 1621, made large conquests in Brazil during the 1630’s and 1640’s. During this period, from 1637 until 1644, Johan-Maurits von Nassau-Siegen (1604-1679) was appointed governor-general of Dutch Brazil. This Homo Universalis, well known for his collections of Brazilian and other curiosities, invited a number of artists and scientists overseas to record the Brazilian reality through descriptions, paintings and scientific works. The scientific and artistic project that was carried out under the impulse of Johan-Maurits can be seen as a way of ‘taming’ a foreign (Brazilian) reality through the gathering of knowledge. The vast arsenal of images, maps and descriptions served to demonstrate that the Dutch comprehended the region and its inhabitants but also fashioned the image of the New World that circulated in Early Modern Europe. The Rerum per Octennium and the Historia Naturalis Brasiliae were both written under the patronage of Johan-Maurits by authors who never set foot in Brazil. Barlaeus, an esteemed humanist, based his account of the Dutch colonial empire on the abundant sources made available to him by Johan-Maurits. The Historia was edited and organised by Johannes de Laet and contains two major works written by two scientists who did participate in the Brazilian adventure: Willem Piso’s De medicina brasiliensi , on Brazilian medicine, and Georg Marckgraf’s Historia rerum naturalium Brasiliae, on the fauna, flora, geography and population. While the Rerum’s focus is essentially on the Dutch endeavours in the New World, the 20 volumes of the Historia gathers a wide amount of information about Early Modern Brazilian natural history. Barlaeus and de Laet both relied on a variety of sources, classical and contemporary ones. Soon after their publication, their works became in their turn authorities and took part in a knowledge and imagination network about foreign (scientific) realities. Their texts make clear how the gathering of knowledge about the colony was not only led by utilitarian principles, but also by a desire to comprehend the strange reality. The abundant descriptions in their text bear witness to this desire.".
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