Relações de ofício e de saberes entre o naturalista Joaquim Veloso de Miranda e seus auxiliares em Minas Gerais (1780-1805)

Abstract

The last two decades of the eighteenth century mark the beginning of a process of political and economic reorientation of Portugal towards its achievements. In Minas Gerais, due to the decrease in mining activities, the Portuguese State finds in Natural History a new perspective to earn revenues and boost the colonial economy and reinol. Using mostly illustrated professionals who attended the reformed University of Coimbra, Portugal began a complex activity of exchanging copies of the three Kingdoms of nature, entrusting to these delegates other activities as the dynamization of this process in their own. geographic domains. In these hinterlands, the Luso-Brazilian naturalist Joaquim Veloso de Miranda was responsible for coordinating the activities inherent in this new economic development policy, as well as instructing and commanding his assistants in the various activities that this effort demanded. This communication aims to present the processes that involve the transmission of knowledge in the context of labor relations and servitude, including, directed to the activities that ran through Natural History, between the naturalist in question and his assistants, in order to clarify further the loans made by these men to meet the demands of the Portuguese Crown.