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Science in the Spanish and Portuguese empires, 1500-1800 / edited by Daniela Bleichmar ... [et al.].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Latin America--History.
- Science.
- Science--Spain--Colonies--History.
- Science--Portugal--Colonies--History.
- Science--Latin America--Historiography.
- Latin America--History--To 1830.
- Latin America.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (454 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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 Leitao. New worlds, new sciences. Cosmography at the casa, consejo, and corte during the century of discovery / Maria M. Portuondo
- Science during the Portuguese maritime discoveries : a telling case of interaction between experimenters and theoreticians / Onesimo 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 Siguenza y Gongora 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 Mexico, 1788-1795 / Fiona Clark
- The Indies of knowledge, or the imaginary geography of the discoveries of gold in Brazil / Junia 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 Fernandez de Quiros, 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]- 417) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804776332
- 0804776334
- OCLC:
- 693761729
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