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Garden of the Jesuits’ College: news about the first botanical garden in Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

We present the Garden of the Jesuits’ College, at the hillside of the Morro do Castelo, as a place of experimentation of plant cultivations with potential economic return, in a context that precedes the creation of the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden (1808).

Key words:
Botany; acclimatization of plants; history of institutions; history of the sciences

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