Texera Arnal Y
Universidad de Caracas, Venezuela.
Asclepio. 1994;46(2):197-217.
Myer's expedition to Venezuela passed unnoticed for U.S. intellectual circles in the 19th century. Although Humboldt's work made it known scientifically, the country remains today terra incognita in some respects, such as the knowledge of her natural resources. Venezuela's political and economic conditions in the 19th century prevented the publication at the time of the foreign literature on her natural history. In the last decades of the 20th century there is at last a new and growing interest in studying and translating the legacy that international scholars on Venezuela left.
迈耶对委内瑞拉的考察在19世纪并未引起美国知识界的注意。尽管洪堡的著作使其在科学上为人所知，但在某些方面，比如对其自然资源的了解，该国如今仍是未知之地。19世纪委内瑞拉的政治和经济状况使得当时有关其自然历史的外国文献无法出版。在20世纪的最后几十年里，人们终于对研究和翻译国际学者留下的关于委内瑞拉的遗产产生了新的、日益浓厚的兴趣。
