This article focuses on the analysis of a medical consilium about a rhino horn written around 1570 by the Portuguese royal physician Jorge Godines to the Spanish ambassador in Lisbon. It sheds light on the processes of knowledge production concerning rhino and unicorn horns in early modern Lisbon. Through micro-historical analysis, we will demonstrate how demand, supply, and the availability of specimens, experience, information, and intellectual networks contributed to the establishment of a specific geography of scientific knowledge around the city. The analysis hopes to contribute to the disclosure of a more heterogeneous scientific landscape in early modern Europe, where practices of knowledge production depended very much on local contacts and on the agents’ individual trajectories.

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在犀牛角杯中寻找独角兽的美德：现代早期里斯本的犀牛角消费和知识生产

本文重点分析医学议会1570 年左右，葡萄牙皇家医师豪尔赫·戈丁斯 (Jorge Godines) 写给西班牙驻里斯本大使的信中写了关于犀牛角的故事。它阐明了现代早期里斯本有关犀牛角和独角兽角的知识生产过程。通过微观历史分析，我们将展示标本、经验、信息和知识网络的需求、供应和可用性如何促进城市周围特定科学知识地理的建立。该分析希望有助于揭示近代早期欧洲更加多样化的科学景观，那里的知识生产实践在很大程度上取决于当地联系和代理人的个人轨迹。