José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva has his presence noticed into History, towards his identification as the Patriarch of the Independence, which corresponds to his profile of Statesman and Parliamentary. However, he also became noted as a studious man and a researcher of the natural world. He managed Portuguese governmental spaces connected directly to mineralogy and agriculture. One of these institutional loci was the General Departament of Mines and Metals of the Kingdom, institution that formulates the politics of mineral exploitation in Portugal at the beginning of the 19th century and carried on researches in the mineralogy field. The Departament became an important space of scientific production in the mineralogy field, contributing to the spread of the modern scientific ideas to the Portuguese society.
Science history; Geo-sciences; History of Brazil; Natural Science History