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“Plantas novas que os doutos não conhecem”: a exploração científica da natureza no Oriente português, 1768-1808

Overview of attention for article published in História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos, September 2017
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Title
“Plantas novas que os doutos não conhecem”: a exploração científica da natureza no Oriente português, 1768-1808
Published in
História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos, September 2017
DOI 10.1590/s0104-59702017000300007
Pubmed ID
Authors

Magnus Roberto de Mello Pereira

Abstract

As Portugal lost most of its conquests to the Dutch, Portuguese East Asia was reduced to the remaining trading posts (feitorias) and Brazil became the center of attention for colonial policies. Consequently, during the eighteenth century the Portuguese crown did not express greater interest in developing native Eastern knowledge of nature. These interests were tied to goals involving reconfiguration of the economy of the Brazilian colonies. The idea to cultivate economically important Eastern species such as pepper, nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves, teak, and sandalwood in Brazil took shape, but was not immediately successful. This article examines this attempt to extend Portugal's scientific network to the East, as well as the process of transplanting these species.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 2 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 50%
Researcher 1 50%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Arts and Humanities 1 50%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 50%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 06 June 2022.
All research outputs
#6,784,032
of 25,461,852 outputs
Outputs from História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos
#659
of 1,628 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#97,800
of 324,678 outputs
Outputs of similar age from História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos
#17
of 28 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,461,852 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 72nd percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,628 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 7.1. This one is in the 17th percentile – i.e., 17% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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