A New World of Animals : Early Modern Europeans on the Creatures of Iberian America.

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Asúa, Miguel de
Otros Autores: French, Roger
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2005.
Temas:
Animals > Latin America > History.
Animals
Latin America
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Unexpected Menagerie of the New World
  • Columbus: First Contact with American Animals
  • The Letters of the Physicians
  • Vespucci
  • Pinzón and a Curious Animal
  • Cabral and the 'Land of the Parrots'
  • Fernández de Enciso and Roger Barlow: Geography, Animals and Empire
  • The Animals of Patagonia
  • 2 Soldiers and Amerindians
  • Hernán Cortés and the Menagerie of Tenochtitlán
  • The Mercenary and the Hero: Two Views on the Animals of the River Plate and Paraguay
  • Pedro Cieza de León: the Animals of a Soldier-Historian
  • The Brazilian Zoo of a German Among the Tupi
  • Vargas Machuca: a Handbook for the Conquistador
  • Animals in an Aztec Encyclopaedia. Bernardino de Sahagún and his General History of the Things of New Spain
  • The Royal Commentaries of the Inca Garcilaso
  • 3 The New Histories of the New World
  • The Letters of an Italian Humanist. Peter Martyr and his Decades
  • Francisco Fernández de Oviedo, the Pliny of the New World
  • A Chronicle of the Conquest. López de Gómara's General History of the Indies
  • Aristotle and the New World. José de Acosta and his Natural and Moral History of the Indies
  • The Relaciones of the Indies and Herrera's General History of the Deeds of the Castilians
  • The Natural Histories of the New World
  • 4 Joyful and Profitable News from the New World. Animals, Medicine and Commerce
  • Francisco Hernández and his History of the Animals of New Spain
  • Animal Drugs: Monardes's Medicinal History and Ximénez's Four Books
  • Exotic Animals. Knowledge and Interests. Clusius and his Exotica
  • Georg Markgraf and Willem Piso. The Dutch West India Company and the Historia naturalis Brasiliae.
  • The Literature about the New World in Reformed Europe and the Expansion of the Northern Powers
  • Useful and Strategic Knowledge on Animals of the New World
  • 5 Learned Missionaries and Jesuit Scholars
  • Fernão Cardim and his Treatise on the Land and the Climate of Brazil
  • The Franciscan Claude d'Abbeville and the History of the mission of Capuchin Fathers to the Island of Maranhão
  • Catholic and Calvinist Views on the Animals of French Brazil
  • Juan Eusebio Nieremberg and his Historia naturae maxime peregrinae
  • Athanasius Kircher: Noah's Ark, a Wondrous Museum and Animal Magnetism
  • Gaspar Schott and his Physica curiosa
  • 6 New World Animals and Shifting Conceptions of Natural History
  • Natural Philosophy and Philological Quibbles. Cardano vs Julius Caesar Scaliger
  • Brazilian Birds and the Classics. Belon and L'histoire de la nature des oyseaux
  • Animals in a Jungle of Words. Gesner's Historia animalium
  • New World Animals Play a Role in the Theatre of Nature. Aldrovandi and his Historia animalium
  • The 'Who's Who' of Seventeenth-Century Natural History. John Jonston and his Encyclopaedia on Animals
  • New World Animals and the 'Scientific Revolution'
  • The Loss of an Enchanted View
  • Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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