Missionary scientists : Jesuit science in Spanish South America, 1570-1810 /

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The first scientists of the New World.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Prieto, Andrés I.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, ©2011.
Subjects:
Jesuits > South America > History.
Jesuits > Missions > South America > History.
Jesuits > South America > Intellectual life > History.
Jesuits
Jesuiten
Jesuiten.
Natural history > South America > History.
Religion and science > South America > History.
Religion et sciences > Amérique du Sud > Histoire.
Sciences naturelles > Amérique du Sud > Histoire.
RELIGION > Institutions & Organizations.
HISTORY > Latin America > South America.
Intellectual life
Missions
Natural history
Religion and science
Naturwissenschaften
Mission
Mission.
Naturwissenschaften.
Peru (Viceroyalty) > History.
Pérou (Vice-royauté) > Histoire.
Peru > Peru (Viceroyalty)
South America
Südamerika
Peru
Südamerika.
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : science and the Jesuit ways of proceeding
  • Jesuit struggles in Peru
  • Confessing the power to heal
  • Christianizing demonic knowledge
  • Science and expansion
  • Astronomy between Chiloe, Lima and Rome
  • The two faces of Acosta's Historia natural y moral
  • The irreducible difference of America
  • Local nature, local histories
  • Epilogue : the Jesuit and the armchair philosopher.

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