Format:
1 online resource (454 pages)
ISBN:
9780804776332
Content:
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.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I - Reassessing the Role of Iberia in Early Modern Science -- 1. Science, Medicine, and Technology in Colonial Spanish America:New Interpretations, New Approaches -- 2. Portuguese Imperial Science, 1450-1800: A Historiographical Review -- Part II - New Worlds, New Sciences -- 3. Cosmography at the Casa, Consejo, and Corte During the Century of Discovery -- 4. Science During the Portuguese Maritime Discoveries: A Telling Case of Interaction Between Experimenters and Theoreticians -- 5. Baroque Natures: Juan E. Nieremberg, American Wonders, and Preterimperial Natural History -- Part III - Knowledge Production: Local Contexts, Global Empires -- 6. Cosmopolitanism and Scientific Reason in New Spain: Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora and the Dispute over the 1680 Comet -- 7. Medical Mestizaje and the Politics of Pregnancy in Colonial Guatemala, 1660-1730 -- 8. "Read All About It": Science, Translation, Adaptation, and Confrontation in the Gazeta de Literatura de México, 1788-1795 -- 9. The Indies of Knowledge, or the Imaginary Geography of the Discoveries of Gold in Brazil -- 10. Space Production and Spanish Imperial Geopolitics -- Part IV - Commerce, Curiosities, and the Circulation of Knowledge -- 11. Knowledge and Empiricism in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish Atlantic World -- 12. Voyaging in the Spanish Baroque: Science and Patronage in the Pacific Voyage of Pedro Fernández de Quirós, 1605-1606 -- 13. Acquisition and Circulation of Medical Knowledge within the Early Modern Portuguese Colonial Empire -- 14. The Rare, the Singular, and the Extraordinary: Natural History and the Collection of Curiosities in the Spanish Empire -- 15. A Visible and Useful Empire: Visual Culture and Colonial Natural History in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish World.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780804753586
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Science in the Spanish and Portuguese empires, 1500 - 1800 Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2009 ISBN 080475358X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780804753586
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Lateinamerika
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Naturwissenschaften
;
Geschichte 1500-1800
;
Spanien
;
Kolonie
;
Naturwissenschaften
;
Geschichte 1500-1800
;
Portugal
;
Kolonie
;
Naturwissenschaften
;
Geschichte 1500-1800
;
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Author information:
Bleichmar, Daniela 1973-
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