VELOSO, THE NATURALIST

This paper analyses Veloso's activities as a naturalist and argues that his botanical work as well as his editor's efforts are consistent with Enlightened natural history. His later celebrity was built by the trend of ennobling "great men" of the colonial rule and by the actual use of his botanical research. The fact that Veloso and his group adopted the Linnean system allowed his work to be recognized by taxonomists, despite being outdated at the time it was published.

Friar Mariano da Conceição Veloso; natural history; Florae Fluminensis