Science in the Spanish and Portuguese empires, 1500-1800 / edited by Daniela Bleichmar ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bleichmar, Daniela, 1973-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--Latin America--History.

Science.

Science--Colonies--Spain--History.

Colonies.

Historiography.

History.

Spain.

Science--Colonies--Portugal--History.

Portugal.

Science--Latin America--Historiography.

Latin America--History--To 1830.

Latin America.

Physical Description:

xxii, 427 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2009]

Contents:

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 Leitão. 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.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

9780804753586

080475358X

OCLC:

225876108