عنوان

Science in the Spanish and Portuguese empires, 1500-1800 /

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(cloth : alk. paper)

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(cloth : alk. paper)

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080475358x

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9780804753586

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b524214

Title Proper

Science in the Spanish and Portuguese empires, 1500-1800 /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Daniela Bleichmar ... [et al.]

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Stanford, Calif. :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Stanford University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

c2009

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

vi, 427 p. :

Other Physical Details

ill. ;

Dimensions

23 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-417) and index

Text of Note

Reassessing the role of Iberia in early modern science. Science, medicine, and technology in colonial Spanish America : new interpretations, new approaches / David Goodman -- Portuguese imperial science, 1450-1800 : a historiographical review / Palmira Fontes da Costa and Henrique Leitao. New worlds, new sciences. Cosmography at the casa, consejo, and corte during the century of discovery / María M. Portuondo -- Science during the Portuguese maritime discoveries : a telling case of interaction between experimenters and theoreticians / Onésimo T. Almeida -- Baroque natures : Juan E. Nieremberg, American wonders, and preterimperial natural history / Juan Pimentel. Knowledge production : local contexts, global empires. Cosmopolitanism and scientific reason in New Spain : Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora and the dispute over the 1680 comet / Anna More -- Medical mestizaje and the politics of pregnancy in colonial Guatemala, 1660-1730 / Martha Few -- "Read all about it" : science, translation, adaptation, and confrontation in the Gazeta de literatura de México, 1788-1795 / Fiona Clark -- The Indies of knowledge, or the imaginary geography of the discoveries of gold in Brazil / Júnia Ferreira Furtado -- Space production and Spanish imperial geopolitics / Nuria Valverde and Antonio Lafuente. Commerce, curiosities, and the circulation of knowledge. Knowledge and empiricism in the sixteenth-century Spanish Atlantic world / Antonio Barrera-Osorio -- Voyaging in the Spanish baroque : science and patronage in the Pacific voyage of Pedro Fernández de Quirós, 1605-1606 / Kevin Sheehan -- Acquisition and circulation of medical knowledge within the early modern Portuguese colonial empire / Timothy Walker -- The rare, the singular, and the extraordinary : natural history and the collection of curiosities in the Spanish empire / Paula De Vos -- A visible and useful empire : visual culture and colonial natural history in the eighteenth-century Spanish world / Daniela Bleichmar

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"This collection of essays is the first book published in English to provide a thorough survey of the practices of science in the Spanish and Portuguese empires from 1500 to 1800. Authored by an interdisciplinary team of specialists from the United States, Latin America, and Europe, the book consists of fifteen original essays, as well as an Introduction and an Afterword by renowned scholars in the field. The topics discussed include navigation, exploration, cartography, natural sciences, technology, and medicine. This volume is aimed at both specialists and non-specialists, and is presented in an open, accessible style. It will be a major resource for anyone interested in colonial Latin America."--Jacket

Science-- Latin America-- Historiography

Science-- Latin America-- History

Science-- Portugal-- Colonies-- History

Science-- Spain-- Colonies-- History

Latin America, History, To 1830

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Book number

Bleichmar, Daniela,1973-

Date of Transaction

20110413121147.0

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