Abstract

DEPETRIS, Carolina. Escribir la Geografía: dos diarios de expedición del Siglo XVIII anotados en nueva España. Península [online]. 2005, vol.1, n.0, pp.113-127. ISSN 1870-5766.

This paper sets forth a study focused on two expedition diaries written by a military man and an engineer in Nueva España during the 18th century. These testimonies of their journeys pursued, as main purpose, the offering of a reliable knowledge of a non explored or practically unknown geography. This work aims at analyzing how this knowledge is built and how it is discursively transmitted.

Keywords : Geographical observation; epistemology; rhetoric illusion; description.

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