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Science in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires, 1500-1800.
This volume is a collection of essays that examines the practices and aims of science in the early modern Spanish and Portuguese empires (ca. 1500-1800), situating them in their historical, cultural, social, and political context.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Palo Alto :
Stanford University Press,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; Illustrations; Tables; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I
- Reassessing the Role of Iberia in Early Modern Science; 1. Science, Medicine, and Technology in Colonial Spanish America:New Interpretations, New Approaches; 2. Portuguese Imperial Science, 1450-1800: A Historiographical Review; Part II
- New Worlds, New Sciences; 3. Cosmography at the Casa, Consejo, and Corte During the Century of Discovery; 4. Science During the Portuguese Maritime Discoveries: A Telling Case of Interaction Between Experimenters and Theoreticians.
- 5. Baroque Natures: Juan E. Nieremberg, American Wonders, and Preterimperial Natural HistoryPart III
- Knowledge Production: Local Contexts, Global Empires; 6. Cosmopolitanism and Scientific Reason in New Spain: Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora and the Dispute over the 1680 Comet; 7. Medical Mestizaje and the Politics of Pregnancy in Colonial Guatemala, 1660-1730; 8. "Read All About It": Science, Translation, Adaptation, and Confrontation in the Gazeta de Literatura de México, 1788-1795; 9. The Indies of Knowledge, or the Imaginary Geography of the Discoveries of Gold in Brazil.
- 10. Space Production and Spanish Imperial GeopoliticsPart IV
- Commerce, Curiosities, and the Circulation of Knowledge; 11. Knowledge and Empiricism in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish Atlantic World; 12. Voyaging in the Spanish Baroque: Science and Patronage in the Pacific Voyage of Pedro Fernández de Quirós, 1605-1606; 13. Acquisition and Circulation of Medical Knowledge within the Early Modern Portuguese Colonial Empire; 14. The Rare, the Singular, and the Extraordinary: Natural History and the Collection of Curiosities in the Spanish Empire.
- 15. A Visible and Useful Empire: Visual Culture and Colonial Natural History in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish WorldAfterword; Notes; Index.