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Title:

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

Publisher:

Stanford University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xxii, 427 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Science--Latin America--History.
Science--Spain--History.--History.
Science--Portugal--History.--History.
Science--Latin America--Historiography.
Latin America--History--To 1830

Other Authors:

Bleichmar, Daniela, 1973-

Notes:

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

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 Leit©Đo. New worlds, new sciences. Cosmography at the casa, consejo, and corte during the century of discovery / Mar©Ưa M. Portuondo -- Science during the Portuguese maritime discoveries : a telling case of interaction between experimenters and theoreticians / On©♭simo 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 Sig©ơenza y G©đngora 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 M©♭xico, 1788-1795 / Fiona Clark -- The Indies of knowledge, or the imaginary geography of the discoveries of gold in Brazil / J©ðnia 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 Fern©Łndez de Quir©đs, 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.

ISBN:

080475358X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780804753586 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)225876108

LCCN:

2008041298

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)