Humboldt y la Occidentalización de América

Abstract

The article examines how between the 18th and the 19th century were brought to America, through the so-called scientific travellers, great concepts and great tools of the Westernization of the American mentality: reason, science and technique. And how the baron and German scientist Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) contributed particularly to this Westernization. It was formed a mentality and a conceptual system that favored Eurocentrism, and was seeking to express themselves differently to as had been the American expression from the 15th century to the first half of the 18th century.