An Empire's Extract
Chemical Manipulations of Cinchona Bark in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish Atlantic World
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3924482 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matthew James Crawford (0000-0001-8441-6940, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 215-229 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Osiris (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0369-7827 • E-ISSN: 1933-8287 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/678104 |
| PMID | 26103756 |
| OpenAlex | W2032549416 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 17 |
In 1790, the Spanish Crown sent a "botanist-chemist" to South America to implement production of a chemical extract made from cinchona bark, a botanical medicament from the Andes used throughout the Atlantic World to treat malarial fevers. Even though the botanist-chemist's efforts to produce the extract failed, this episode offers important insight into the role of chemistry in the early modern Atlantic World. Well before the Spanish Crown tried to make it a tool of empire, chemistry provided a vital set of techniques that circulated among a variety of healers, who used such techniques to make botanical medicaments useful and intelligible in new ways
Ancient history · Art · Atlantic World · Chemist · Empire · Geography · History of chemistry · History of science · Traditional medicine · Chemistry · Historical and Literary Studies · Historical and Scientific Studies · History · History of Science and Natural History · Medicine · Philosophy · Forestry · Organic Chemistry
Science and Empires
Visible Empire
The history of Atlantic science
From Herbs to Alchemy
Para Desterrar Las Dudas Y Adulteraciones”
Alchemy Vs. Chemistry
Botany, Chemistry, and Tropical Development
A “reasoned proposal” against “vain science”
Exploration in Print
Science and Empire in the Atlantic World
Global Knowledge on the Move
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |