TY  - GEN 
AU  - Biersack, Martin
PY  - 2025
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/10481/104347
AB  - This article deals with the French botanist Nicolas Joseph Thiéry de Menonville who in 1777 went to
Oaxaca (Mexico) in search of cochineal. Although cochineal was one of the Spanish Empire’s bestkept
secrets, he managed to go there, acquire...
LA  - eng
PB  - Cambridge University Press
TI  - Imperial Secrecy versus Scientific Exploration. Nicolas Thiéry de Menonville’s Botanical Mission to Bring Cochineal from Colonial Mexico to Saint-Domingue
DO  - 10.1017/S0165115325000130
ER  -