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Science in the vanished Arcadia : knowledge of nature in the Jesuit missions of Paraguay and Río de la Plata /
In Science in the Vanished Arcadia Miguel de Asúa provides the first modern comprehensive account of Jesuit science in the missions of Paraguay and the River Plate region during the 17th and 18th centuries.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2014.
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| Colección: | History of science and medicine library. Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions ;
v. 2. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements; List of Maps and Figures; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Some Historiographical Remarks; 2 The Jesuits in Paraguay and the River Plate; 3 A Brief Survey of Events; 4 Life in the Reductions; Chapter 1 Natural Histories; 1 The Jesuit Natural Histories of Paraquaria; 2 Textual Organization; 2.1 Organizing; 2.2 Listing; 2.3 Naming; 3 The Natural Histories; 3.1 Lozano and the Wondrous Nature of Paraguay; 3.2 Paucke: "I Tell What I Have Seen"; 3.3 Sánchez Labrador's Catalogue of the Natural World of Paraquaria; 4 Writing on Nature in Paraquaria.
- 4.1 A Jesuit Genre of Writing4.2 Theatrum naturae; 4.3 The Jesuit Works and Eighteenth-Century Natural History; 4.4 Native Lore on Nature; Chapter 2 Herbals; 1 Jesuits Medicine and Pharmacy in Eighteenth-Century Paraguay and Río de la Plata; 2 The Major Works; 2.1 Montenegro; 2.2 Aperger; 2.3 A Jungle of Herbals; 2.3.1 Manuscripts Containing Montenegro's Materia medica misionera; 2.3.2 Manuscripts Containing Versions of Montenegro's Materia medica misionera Attributed to Aperger; 2.3.3 Manuscript History; 2.4 Montenegro's Herbal. European Pharmacopoeia and Guaraní Plant Lore.
- 2.4.1 Identification of Plants2.4.2 Pictures; 2.4.3 Montenegro's Materia medica misionera, the Guaraní and the "Galenization" of Native Herbal Lore; 2.5 Jesuits and Guaraní Healers; 2.6 A Medical Handbook for the Missions; 3 The Lost and Minor Works; 3.1 A Guaraní receptarium; 3.2 Medicinal Botany in the Paraguay Natural; 3.3 The English Surgeon; 3.4 A Book of Surgery; 4 The Herbal Tradition in Paraquaria; Chapter 3 Maps; 1 Quiroga; 2 Astronomical Instruments; 3 Charting Patagonia; 3.1 Quiroga's Maps and Observations; 4 An Expedition to the Mato Grosso; 5 The Chair of Mathematics.
- 6 The Sources of the Paraguay River7 Maps and Politics; 8 Maps and Mission; 9 Maps of the Productive Structure of the Missions; 10 Jesuits, Natives, and Maps; Chapter 4 The Heavens; 1 The Stars Lead to Kircher; 1.2 The Mission by the Lake Nahuel Huapi; 2 Buenaventura Suárez S.J.; 2.1 Suárez's Telescopes; 2.2 Observations from the Mission of San Cosme; 2.3 A Lunar Calendar; 2.4 Suárez and the Royal Society; 2.5 Longitude; 2.6 Teaching of Astronomy in Córdoba; 2.7 Theory; 2.8 The Guaraní as Instrument Makers; 3 Missionary Astronomy; Chapter 5 Science in the Italian Exile.
- 1 Juárez's Vatican Garden of the Indies1.1 The Osservazioni; 1.2 Juárez's Botanical Outlook; 2 Spiders and Electric Fish; 2.1 Jesuits and Electric Fish; 2.2 The Immediate Background of Termeyer's Experiments; 2.3 A Fishy Anatomy; 2.4 Experiments among the Mocoví; 2.5 A Fluid Discussion; 2.6 An American Postscript; 3 Looking at the Heavens through Someone Else's Eyes; 3.1 The Cádiz Quadrant; 4 The Cultural Transplant; Chapter 6 A Last Word; 1 Empirical Reference; 2 Science and Religion; 3 Science and Native Lore on Nature; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.