Secret science : Spanish cosmography and the new world / Maria M. Portuondo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Portuondo, María M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cosmography--History.

Cosmography.

Science--Historiography.

Science.

America--Discovery and exploration--Spanish.

America.

Spain--History.

Spain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (358 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The discovery of the New World raised many questions for early modern scientists: What did these lands contain? Where did they lie in relation to Europe? Who lived there, and what were their inhabitants like? Imperial expansion necessitated changes in the way scientific knowledge was gathered, and Spanish cosmographers in particular were charged with turning their observations of the New World into a body of knowledge that could be used for governing the largest empire the world had ever known.As María M. Portuondo here shows, this cosmographic knowledge had considerable st

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Tables

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

A Note on Translations

Introduction. Spanish Science and the New World

ONE. Renaissance Cosmography in the Era of Discovery

TWO. Cosmographical Styles at the Casa, Consejo, and Corte

THREE. Cosmography Codified

FOUR. The Cosmographer-Chronicler of the Council of the Indies

FIVE. The Cosmographer at Work

SIX. Constructing a Cosmographical Epistemology

SEVEN. Cosmography Dissolves

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786612239922

9781282239920

1282239929

9780226675374

0226675378

OCLC:

435911884